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Church PowerPoint Slide for Syria & Turkey Appeal

1 month ago

With the death toll from the earthquake now over 40,000 and the United Nations estimates that over 4 million people are relying on humanitarian assistance, this is a significant human tragedy. A PowerPoint slide might be useful to engage your parishione...

AOA joins Emergency Action Alliance

1 year ago

Anglican Overseas Aid is proud to be a founding member of the Emergency Action Alliance. The Emergency Action Alliance (EAA) is a simple and effective way for Australian donors to help in an international humanitarian emergency. The EAA is made up of 15 Aus...

Emergency Action Alliance launched

2 years ago

Anglican Overseas Aid and 15 other Australian charities joined forces for the first time on Friday 6 August to launch the newly-formed Emergency Action Alliance. In an historic collaborative effort, the humanitarian agencies have united in their campaig...

Love in Action: Ministering to the displaced in Mozambique

2 years ago

In AOA’s Easter Appeal, “Hear Their Cry”, we focused on the plight of the people of northern Mozambique in the province of Cabo Delgado where civil and military conflict has resulted in the devastating loss of 2000 lives and mass displacement. It is estima...

Tropical Cyclone Yasa leaves devastation in Fiji – please help

2 years ago

On Thursday 17th December, Category 5 Tropical Cyclone (TC) Yasa made landfall in Fiji, bringing with it gusts of up to 350 kmph and lashing rain. The winds flattened trees and crops, damaged and destroyed houses, and the rain has left severe flooding, which i...

Conflict forces thousands to flee Cabo Del Gado, Mozambique

2 years ago

Violence has been escalating in the north of Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique, a situation which has seen thousands fleeing for their lives. They are now refugees in their own country, heading south seeking safety and shelter. Communities are hosting the re...

18 Months After Cyclones Idai and Kenneth

2 years ago

Thanks to your support through Anglican Overseas Aid’s Rapid Response Emergency Fund, our partner in Mozambique, the Missionary Diocese of Nampula, was able to help many in the aftermath of consecutive cyclones in the coastal African country in 2019. In...

COVID-19: Kenya and Mozambique work update

3 years ago

COVID-19: the transition and the new normal. Recently we had an update from our partners in Kenya and Mozambique. They told us of how the pandemic has impacted them and the people they serve. Importantly, they told us how their work is continuing to help th...

Speaking up: Empowering the vulnerable in a crisis.

3 years ago

Sometimes it is hard to speak up when something is wrong. It is even harder when there has been a disaster, and when you are already experiencing vulnerability in your community. We have been working with our partner, the Anglican Church of Melanesia, to reduc...

Swept away: food and the burden of flooding in the Solomon Islands

3 years ago

The province of Guadalcanal, the second largest island in the Solomon Islands and home of it's capital, Honiara, plays an essential role in growing enough food to feed the nation's people. So, when Tropical Cyclone Harold brought with it devastating floods in ...

Beirut, Lebanon explosion – sending emergency assistance

3 years ago

A catastrophic explosion and subsequent shockwave rocked Beirut, Lebanon on the 4th August, leaving the city's only port devastated, thousands of buildings damaged and 85 percent of the country's grain destroyed. The explosion killed more than 135 people, inju...

Disability in times of disaster – ensuring those most vulnerable aren’t left behind.

3 years ago

Living with a disability is challenging. In remote and rural settings in Vanuatu, these challenges are compounded by the dangers that come with the threat of natural disasters, like Tropical Cyclone Harold that hit earlier this year. This is how the Anglican C...

COVID-19: Our partners and our work

3 years ago

How is COVID-19 affecting the countries we work in? Though most of us would say our lives have been considerably impacted in some way, we know that global catastrophes such as COVID-19 hit the poor in developing countries hardest. Many of the world’s po...

Responding to TC Harold – Supporting the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu

3 years ago

After Category 5 Cyclone Harold battered the Pacific in the lead up to Easter this year, people in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have been faced with the dual challenge of responding to the threat of COVID-19 and recovering from another environmental disaste...

Pacific nations suffer as cyclone hits during COVID-19 concerns

3 years ago

Tropical Cyclone Harold impacted the Pacific island nation of Solomon Islands as it passed by as a Category 1 storm on April 2 2020, before making landfall and devastating the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu as a stronger Category 5 storm on April 6. W...

Anglicans unite to help Australian bushfire victims

3 years ago

As the bushfires continue to rage across Australia, all of us at Anglican Overseas Aid would like to express our sadness for the loss and grief that so many Australians are going through. Every day we see the generosity and kindness of ordinary Australians ...

Reflections from a war zone

3 years ago

AOA Board member, Dr Robin Ray, has been instrumental in spreading the word about the wonderful work of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Robin was our first ambassador and visited the hospital in April 2019, along with other board members on a self-funded tri...

Theology of Disaster Resilience Bible studies

3 years ago

The countries where we work are some of the most vulnerable in the world. This is especially the case in the Pacific, which is highly prone to natural disasters. The question of why disasters happen has plagued people of faith for thousands of years. A part...

Emphasising local work in communities

4 years ago

We recently took part in the Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leadership Conference in Melbourne. Two of our staff, along with Ethel George from our partner in Vanuatu, made significant contributions to the conference. The first presentation we contributed was by ...

How your donations have been spent in Ambae!

4 years ago

Last year we provided $10,000 from our Rapid Response Emergency Fund to our friends in Ambae, Vanuatu. This was to assist them with their recovery and rehabilitation efforts following the volcanic activity that had forced the evacuation of the entire popul...