The ELCSA Development Service
is a non-profit making humanitarian aid organisation that provides assistance
to the poor and victims of disaster on the basis of need irrespective of race,
creed, gender, or political affiliation. The ELCSA Development Service was
incorporated under section 21 of the South African Company Law in June 1997.
It is a section 21company that is owned by seven institutions, all of which
are members of the worldwide Lutheran Communion of Churches, namely: The Cape
Orange, Central, Northern, South Eastern, and the Western Dioceses of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA), and also, the Igwa
Circuit of the Eastern Diocese of ELCSA, and The Lutheran World Federation,
Department for World Service. Membership to the ELCSA Development Service
is open - within South Africa - to other institutions that are members of
the Lutheran Communion of Churches such as the ELKSA-NT.
The ELCSA Development Service
(An association incorporated under section 21) has operational responsibility
for emergency relief and rehabilitation, and for empowering the disadvantaged
for sustainable development in areas of endemic need. The ELCSA Development
Service is currently working in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation,
Department for World Service.
