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Healing Mind and Body in Gaza

2 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

2 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

2 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

2 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?

2 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

2 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

2 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

3 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 ...

Reflections from a war zone

3 months 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

5 months 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...

2019 Advent Reflections

5 months ago

Our 2019 Advent Reflections are available! This year we have endeavoured to go a bit deeper and push past the popular veneer of Advent. Sentimental reminiscing about the baby Jesus does not, in our view, do the season justice. This is because the impli...

Restoring an oasis – building dams to sustain life in the Afar

7 months ago

Water supplies in the Unduru region of Afar, Ethiopia, are increasingly perilous. Our new activities of reconstructing existing, and building new dams will ensure that when it does rain, the Afar people will have life saving water reserves. ...

Anifa’s life transformed

8 months ago

It has now been two months since Cyclone Kenneth hit parts of Mozambique. One of the areas affected by the cyclone was Chimoio, in the District of Chiure. People in the communities there have been experiencing diarrhea-related disease and loss of crops....

Personal insight drives strategic vision

9 months ago

By Bob Mitchell CEO There is nothing like seeing our work firsthand to make it come alive. Recently, it was my privilege to lead a group of AOA board members (travelling at their own expense) to visit AOA funded programs in Kenya and the Middle East. ...

Dramatic health learning

9 months ago

Our ‘Towards Abundant Life’ program in Mozambique aims to build community resourcefulness to reach their health and wellbeing goals. ANCP Program Manager, Vanessa Little, recently witnessed how the project was positively changing the way couples approach famil...

She smiths her own future

9 months ago

Anglican Overseas Aid supports Akhaya, a bold organisation supporting women’s rights and empowerment in Myanmar through strengthening women’s leadership, education about sexual harassment and domestic violence, and building women’s business capacity. We are...

Restorative change in the Solomons

9 months ago

By Kylie Wingjan Acting International Programs Manager AOA’s Safe, Strong Communities program in the Solomon Islands uses restorative justice principles alongside pastoral care to reduce gender-based violence. This project is supported through funding f...

Changing climate, steadfast beliefs

9 months ago

By Renee Kobelt Communications Officer Islands and coasts are battered by wind and waves while the land bakes through droughts. Lives are lost, incomes dry up as yields dwindle, and homes and history are swallowed up as the sea claims the land. As t...

CAN DO: Cooperation in action

9 months ago

At AOA, we believe we are stronger together. That is why we are a part of the CAN DO (Church Agencies Network Disaster Operations) consortium, made up of eight faith-based organisations working in the Pacific region with local church partners to increa...

Sacred Journeys: Antoinette and Joanna

10 months ago

Antoinette and Joanna have been on a sacred journey of transformation. In Vanuatu, our partner Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM) teaches women how to save money through Saving and Education Groups. Through these groups hundreds of women are learning to save...

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