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Abundance Magazine

Our Winter 2022 issue of Abundance is available to download.

Download the Winter 2022 edition.

If you would like hard copies for your church, please email us at aoa@anglicanoverseasaid.org.au or call us on 1800 249 880.

Sustainable Development Goals – Progress Report

“We must rise higher to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals, and stay true to our promise of a world of peace, dignity and prosperity on a healthy planet.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Report 2...

Merry Christmas

On behalf of our partners, the communities they serve, and the board and staff of Anglican Overseas Aid, we wanted to thank you for your support and wish you and yours, a wonderful Christmas. May the joy of the angels, the eagerness of the sh...

Abundance Magazine (Christmas 2022)

Please find below the link to our latest edition of Anglican Overseas Aid’s (AOA) Abundance magazine, containing updates as we work together for a world free of poverty. This year we have combined Abundance with our Christmas appeal, reducing overall costs. I...

Gratitude for a sustained partnership

In this feature, we once again highlight a church that has been supporting us for many years. Revd. Chris Lancaster, of the Anglican Parish of Altona/Laverton, recently spoke to us about why they have supported AOA for so long. Chris has been at the parish ...

Our supporters: changing the world

We are constantly grateful for the generosity of our supporters. It is no exaggeration to say that, without them, we simply would not exist. AOA is a conduit between our dedicated supporters and our partners in ministry overseas. Ted and Brenda Mouritz have...

Continuing struggle in Mozambique

Sadly, the plight of the people of northern Mozambique, in the province of Cabo Delgado continues. Civil and military conflict which commenced in 2017, has continued throughout 2021, resulting in the devastating loss of over 3,000 lives, as well as mass displa...

COVID-19 vaccine inequality

By the time you read this article, you may well be on holidays somewhere, or at home. Either way, you will most likely be experiencing more freedoms than you have for most of the last two years. This is largely due to the rapid development and uptake of COVID-...

Christian Care Centre

Sister Daisy serves through the Anglican Church of Melanesia, much of it working with women who have endured violence. She shared with us how the sisters shine light into the lives of women in the Solomon Islands. In the mornings and evenings, we pray w...

Food and resilience during COVID in the Solomon Islands

As the world deals with rounds of COVID-19 lockdowns, impacting both rich and developing countries, the Solomon Islands seems to have been spared the worst, not having recorded any large community outbreaks. Thankfully their border closures, quarantine and...

A 25-year partnership

Anglican churches are a lifeline for Anglican Overseas Aid. We literally could not do our work without their generous support. In this feature, Father Nick Wallace, Vicar at the Anglican Parish of Sorrento and Rye, talks about the reasons the Parish suppor...

Beads of hope in Lekiji, Kenya

A group of ladies in the rural traditional pastoralist town of Lekiji, Kenya, have formed a group named Baraka (Blessing). The group was formed to explore economic opportunities after participating in Strength-Based Approach (SBA) training. This type of tr...

Love in Action: Ministering to the displaced in Mozambique

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...

Just the beginning: Women find employment and freedom after silver smith training

Despite recent political turmoil in Myanmar, life goes on for millions of residents. Please keep them in your prayers, along with our friends at Akhaya, as well as the leaders. In September we finished our project working with Akhaya, supporting the Silver...

Gifts and service a wonderful combination in our Board

We have been very fortunate over many years to have people of extraordinary talent and giftedness on our Board. These are the people who provide direction to AOA, often behind the scenes and without recognition. They do it as an expression of their deeply held...

Storytelling – our commitment to truth and dignity.

Anglican Overseas Aid’s underpinning values capture the essence of what we stand for. Along with justice, peace and reconciliation, we are also committed to acting in solidarity with the poor and marginalised, responding to their needs with compassion, and ...

Impact in numbers: Our year, 2019-2020

Every year we make sure that our programs are effective and impactful, and one way we do this is to understand our reach in numbers. Although the real difference that your support makes can’t be measured in numbers alone, they do help to illustrate the reach o...

Hope and healing go together in East Jerusalem

Amal smiles as she realises she has surpassed her own expectations of ever being able to cope in school. She came to the Spafford Children’s Center in East Jerusalem with poor concentration, weak motor skills and the inability to hold a pencil and draw...

Hope and determination in Kolkata’s slums

For women like Basanti, who lives in the slums of Kolkata, India, life means clinging to hope. Basanti is one of many women who is learning embroidery skills as part of the Cathedral Relief Service training centre, which AOA supports. Being the mother o...

COVID-19: A pandemic that has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities for young girls in Kenya.

Around the world, schooling has been disrupted for months; social distancing has caused classrooms to go online, with students studying from home. For some, learning has gone digital, throwing families into relative chaos. But what happens when you have li...