August 15th, 2025, 4pm MDT
Donations from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Central and South America in 2024 included providing educational support, food security and healthcare to those in need.
Church members also volunteered for humanitarian efforts in the community throughout the year, including responding to natural disasters, donating blood and giving one-on-one assistance.
Around the world, the church spent $1.45 billion in 2024 on 192 countries and territories. These expenditures helped to care for those in need through humanitarian efforts, outreach and relief, food and goods, and prompt support. Through funding and products, the church supports thousands of humanitarian projects around the world, regardless of race, nationality or religious affiliation.
This is part of the Church’s efforts to live two great commandments to trouble those who are troubled by following the example of Jesus Christ, to love God and to love one another.
Below is a small sample of some of this donation and service for 2024.
Medical and Mobility Aid
Members of the San Salvador El Salvador Kuzkatransthek were joined by Blood Drive in November 2024 to benefit Zachamir National Hospital in El Salvador.
Hospital staff gathered 64 blood enough to save around 190 lives, the church’s Spanish newsroom reported.
“The example of Christ giving us life is what we provide to each and every one of us, and we can emulate this love by giving our blood. It can save the lives of others.”
The church contributed other support equipment, such as canes, crutches and spare parts, to benefit people with disabilities, especially those living in rural areas, especially those living in rural areas, at an event of the Weaving Hope Programme in La Paz, Bolivia on October 15, 2024.
More wheelchairs are being donated through the Paraguay Solidarity Foundation. Over the past 13 years, the church has donated 1,576 wheelchairs and 330 support devices in 2024, and nearly 10,000 wheelchairs to the Foundation.
Elder Jerit W. Gong of 12 Apostles, Quorum, was accompanied by his wife Susan Gong, commemorating the donation of mobility aid in Paraguay in November 2024.
In November, the church also made a donation to the Colonias Health Centre, located in the municipality of San Pedro Ayampuc, Guatemala.
Donations include stethoscopes, stretchers, pediatric scales, digital thermometers, laboratory refrigerators, stainless steel tables, glucometers, waiting room chairs, computers, printers, generators, stoves, microwaves, microwaves, metal shelves, transportation, and more.
During the donation ceremony, Elder Patricio Juhura was the first counselor for the President of the Central American Region with 70 people, saying, “This donation is possible thanks to many people in different parts of the world and many people in Guatemala.
Immigrant mental health
Donations from the church also helped immigrants in Colombia, Ecuador and Honduras to receive the medical care they needed, including urgent mental health care.
The church has donated $3.4 million to hopes for a project to improve the health of vulnerable populations.
Dr. Marilyn Garcia, a psychologist with Project Hope, works with Ecuadorian families to help them deal with uncertainty.
“They suffer from uncertainty, so it makes them feel more relaxed, so they can provide those resources and help them,” Garcia said. “They’re like they’re more confident in saying, ‘I know what the next step I have to do.’ ”
Emergency relief
After severe floods in Rio Grande do Sur in Brazil evacuated 200,000 people, the church established 21 shelters, distributed food packages and delivered six tons of emergency supplies to the area.
In Chile, the church has organized volunteer efforts along with local governments and other organizations to provide assistance following the fatal and destructive fires around Chile’s Viña del Mar.
Over 100 local church members lost their homes in the fire, but despite personal losses, many helped their neighbors by distributing bottled water and supplies, cleaning and removing debris.
Nutrition for babies and children
In Mexico, the church was donated to the Muuchi Xiimbal AC Foundation to provide food supplements to 1,500 people in the city of Sangregorio Quazzingo.
The foundation works to address issues such as child malnutrition. The donation of 900 basic food kits and 1,500 spirulina food supplements from the church also included food education activities for parents.
Education for parents is also part of the Relief Society’s global initiative for women and children. This puts money into efforts to celebrate the lives of women under five and newborns, child nutrition efforts, vaccination and education, especially those under five.
Guatemalan mother Sebaschana Jorge said she received support for several months as her baby grew after being diagnosed with chronic malnutrition, which she received support from the program after a month of age.
“When I attended the age of height and weight measurement, I saw the love they treated everyone they were present,” Jorge said of the support of her local church leader.
