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COVID-19: Kenya and Mozambique work update

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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 weeks 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

2 months 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.

2 months 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...

Towards Abundant Life Program, Mozambique

3 months ago

The Towards Abundant Life Program is implemented by the Diocese Missionaria de Nampula in Mozambique. The project has been running since 2011, funded through the Australian Government’s Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) as well as from donations in Aus...

Communities in Mozambique all set for the next phase of change

3 months ago

Health and wellbeing is still a focus of our Towards Abundant Life program in Mozambique. Anglican Overseas Aid has been working with the Anglican Church in Nampula and Cabo Del Gado provinces in Mozambique since 2011. The work has been focused on commu...

Bridging the gender gap in the Solomon Islands

3 months ago

Earlier this year, Belinda Lauria, our Solomon Islands Project Manager, Quality and Compliance, visited the Solomon Islands. Here she shares why this program is so special. In March, (just before the COVID-19 travel restrictions were put in place!) I vi...

COVID-19: Our partners and our work

3 months 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 months 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...

Teachers a vital safeguard in early detection of child trauma

3 months ago

Teachers trained in child counselling through our partner, Anglican Church of Kenya, Mount Kenya West Diocese (ACK), are unique guardians of child rights in rural Kenya. In communities where we work in Nyeri County, poverty leads to many family problems...

Pacific nations suffer as cyclone hits during COVID-19 concerns

6 months 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...

Healing Mind and Body in Gaza

8 months ago

Living in a conflict zone is filled with uncertainty, restrictions and worry. When you are facing a life threatening and socially isolating illness as well, the emotional stress can be overwhelming. Our program in Gaza is helping to bring back hope to the live...

Standing up to domestic violence in Vanuatu

8 months ago

In small communities in Vanuatu the tide of gender-based violence is receding with greater awareness and knowledge gained through social networks. Sheryl* is a 66-year-old Ni-Vanuatu woman who lives on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. She is a mother of eight...

Gabriel, an angel of Chaka

8 months ago

When the alternative is working to help support their families, education is freedom for these children in Kenya. Parents living in poverty are often faced with dilemmas that we find unimaginable. If you were faced with the choice of either not feeding ...

Restoring an ancient vision of Afar

8 months ago

In one of the harshest places to live on Earth, the nomadic people who call the Afar home depend on rain and the dams that it fills for survival. At the Bargaale dam in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, a miracle used to occur every day. Literally t...

What is poverty to you?

8 months ago

Nils von Kalm, our Church and Community Engagement Coordinator, offers some thoughts on how we can think about poverty, and what it means to give a voice and agency to the people who matter. Twenty years ago the World Bank set out to ‘collect the exper...

Between bushfires and rising seas – a church response to climate change

8 months ago

Our CEO Rev Dr Bob Mitchell discusses the Australian bushfires in the global climate context When the clock ticked over into the new decade, Australia was already facing the challenge of out-of-control bushfires, affecting large areas across the country. ...

2020 Lenten Reflection

8 months ago

Our 2020 Lenten Reflections have arrived and are available! This year our free Lenten Reflection is themed Learnings for Life. It contains reflections that may probe, stretch and challenge - but hopefully in positive and life-giving ways. While some of...

Anglicans unite to help Australian bushfire victims

9 months 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 ...

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