From Partners Relief & Development ... “Sneak peek: NEW PARTNERS LOGO!”

Steve and Oddny Gumaer started Partners Relief and Development in response to the needs of refugees and displaced people from Burma, and now in the Middle East, as well. Their mission is to demonstrate, through holistic action, God’s love to children and communities made vulnerable by war in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other conflict zones.

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The Good News: June, 2020

When we made plans to celebrate our 26th birthday in 2020, we had no idea the world would be consumed by a pandemic and protests. We did, however, plan long ago to mark the occasion by updating our logo, and I want to give our subscribers first look at it. What began as a global-team brainstorm - how do we communicate who we are and what we do in a symbol? - became this...

We’ve been partners in this work for 26 years: always fueling our work, your love allows us to act. And even in a pandemic, even with record unemployment and an overwhelming collective anxiety, even while you rightly focus on domestic injustice, you’ve stayed with us. In the past two months you have been part of:

• Delivering 50,000 masks to internally displaced Rohingya in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
• Treating over 5,000 patients at our mobile hospitainer in Syria.
• Sending food to 170 displaced families in Kachin State, Myanmar.
• Sewing 2,572 reusable cloth masks.
• Making over 2,000 bottles of liquid soap.
• Deep cleaning schools-turned-shelters where hundreds of families are sheltering in Syria.
• More than we can possibly tell you in one email.

I love our new logo mainly for this reason: because every time I look at it and see that bright bit of pink, I know that can only exist when you and we partner together to create something. I hope that empowers you as much as it humbles me.

Yours,

Jenn Tendero
VP of Strategic Engagement
Partners Relief and Development

P.S. We have partnered with Fellow to print our logo on a small batch of their Carter Everywhere Mug. Our HQ team tested the Carter Mug for months before deciding to put our logo on it. Because you are on our email list, you get to shop it early, a whole 24 hours before everyone else.

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Partners Relief and Development is a registered charity in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States. "We’re a small, grassroots nonprofit passionate about making a big impact in communities affected by conflict and oppression, demonstrating God’s love to children and giving them the opportunity to live free, full lives." For more information about Partners, visit their website at partners.ngo/