See how much was spent on charity in 2021 by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched its 2021 annual report on charitable spending and volunteer work on Friday, Could 13, 2022. The report offered monetary particulars whereas outlining volunteer efforts, meals manufacturing, blood drives and rather more.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints detailed $906 million in charitable spending in 2021 in a report launched Friday.

The church and its charity broadened the scope of its international humanitarian assist, in response to “Caring For These in Want: 2021 Annual Report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”

Latter-day Saint Charities offered humanitarian assist throughout 3,909 humanitarian initiatives in 188 international locations.

That’s up from:

• 3,600 initiatives in 160 international locations in 2020.
• 3,221 initiatives in 142 nations in 2019.

Latter-day Saints additionally offered 6.8 million volunteer hours in 2021, in response to the report.

Along with these hours, the church’s JustServe app and web site facilitated over 41,000 volunteer initiatives. The report mentioned JustServe registered 62,000 new local people volunteers and a couple of,500 new organizations registered.

“We're grateful for the selfless and devoted choices of church members and mates who make this doable,” the First Presidency mentioned in a press release on the entrance of the report.

Friday’s report differed barely from earlier years, when it was launched because the annual report of Latter-day Saint Charities. This 12 months’s report was broader.

For instance, it detailed that the $906 million spent to assist these in want was offered throughout many various elements of the church:

• Quick providing help, which supplies non permanent monetary assist to these in want on the congregational stage.
• Bishops’ orders for items, which embrace giving meals and commodities from bishops’ storehouses and Deseret Industries shops to these in want.
• Humanitarian initiatives, together with Latter-day Saint Charities reduction efforts in communities the world over.
• Donated commodities, together with church-produced items offered to communities by meals banks and different businesses.
• Donated clothes, together with discounted or free attire given to Deseret Industries.
• Church operations, together with Household Providers counseling, employment facilities, farms and food-processing services, and Deseret Industries.

The report mentioned the church:

• Produced 100 million kilos of meals in 2021 and donated over 80 million kilos of meals.
• Engaged in 104 meals safety initiatives worldwide.
• Distributed 1 billion vaccine doses as a part of 199 emergency response initiatives in 61 international locations and territories.
• Recycled 58,981,915 kilos of products.
• Manufactured 39,835 furnishings gadgets.
• Hosted over 3,000 blood drives at which over 105,000 people donated greater than 100,000 models of blood.
• Supported 585 COVID-19 initiatives in 76 international locations and territories.
• Offered clear water and sanitation initiatives to assist 1.74 million.

Church members and missionaries offered volunteer help throughout quite a few packages. For instance, in 2021 the church had 11,329 welfare and self-reliance missionaries and long-term volunteers.

The church’s Habit Restoration Program operated in 30 international locations and 17 languages. Church volunteers and counselors hosted 2,800 conferences per week, serving 304,405 folks in 189,994 household, group, particular person and marriage counseling classes.

The church additionally hosted 14,984 self-reliance teams with 137,458 individuals.

“Caring for these in want is each an obligation and a joyful privilege for followers of Jesus Christ,” the First Presidency’s message mentioned. “As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we decide to residing the 2 nice commandments: to like God and to like our neighbor (see Matthew 22:37–39). As a church, we're blessed to have the power, international connections and assets to observe his admonition.”

Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé, who oversees the humanitarian operations of the church, additionally was quoted within the report.

“I consider that for each disciple of Jesus Christ, that is a part of our DNA, that we go and discover these which might be in want and attempt to assist them, whether or not it's in our personal group or distant in different international locations,” he mentioned.

“That is actually on the middle of our faith.”