Speakers at this event in addition to Sharon Eubank included Charles T. Ntwaagae (Botswana’s ambassador to the United Nations); Anna Thompson-Quaye (deputy director of the GAVI Alliance, a Geneva-based agency that provides vaccines to children in poor countries), and Dennis C. and Nancy C. Hughes (LDS humanitarian medical trainers).

An example of the kind of service the Church provides that significantly impacts women and children came in response a request from the government of Jordan to help Syrian refugees who had fled to the country. 80% of those refugees were women and children. The Church donated two million dollars worth of humanitarian aid and supplies to help those refugees.

The Church partners often with localized as well as other worldwide organizations to help those in need. Read more about LDS Charities and Church humanitarian projects at the LDS Humanitarian Services website.

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“We are all the sons and daughters of God….‘Let’s work together and try to solve some of the really tremendous social problems that…every country is facing,” he said.

If you would like to hear the interview in its entirety, it will be rebroadcast on BYU Television several times in the next few weeks. For more information, see here.

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