As one of our closest neighbours and one that many of us have at least some degree of familiarity with, Vanuatu is a Pacific Island nation of great contrast. In August, our Acting International Programs Manager, Kylie, visited our work there. Here, she ref...
In August, our own Nils von Kalm, and independent evaluator, Tim Budge, visited our Australian Government-funded project in Gaza, the Ahli Arab Hospital. They went to plan future work with the hospital and their support of women with breast cancer.
The ...
For two years Anglican Overseas Aid has been supporting a project giving new hope to people with disabilities in India through our small grants program.
The project finished in July 2018 and was evaluated afterwards by Rebekah Pederson from the University o...
The food crisis in East Africa has been out of the news for most of the last year.
Thankfully though, the people are not forgotten. The work of recovery for them continues.
It seems like a long time ago that we reached out to you with our East Africa ...
AMBAE, VANUATU
Try to imagine yourself living in a tent for months, away from your home, with no idea when you will have more stable accommodation. You feel insecure, have no income, and the tropical wet season has arrived.
This is what the majorit...
This year, we are celebrating our 30th Anniversary.
Born in September 1988 out of a desire to show the love of God, Anglican Overseas Aid is an Anglican response to a suffering world.
We have come a long way since the early days in 1988 when the late Arc...
We are extremely proud to announce that our CEO, Revd Dr Bob Mitchell, has been made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "significant services to the community through charitable organisations and to the Anglican Church of Australia".
Congratulation...
Supporter, Carol, visited the Spafford Children’s Center on a recent visit and shares what she saw and experienced.
The Spafford Children’s Center in East Jerusalem provides unique growth and healing opportunities for children traumatised by the ongoing...
The Bringing Light to Rural Communities (BLTRC) Project is implemented by the Anglican Church of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands. The project has been running since 2010, funded through the Australian Government’s Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) as...
The Women's Health Women's Rights (WHWR) Program is implemented by the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. The project has been running since 2009, funded through the Australian Government’s Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) (since 2011) as well as fro...
The Disability Inclusive Livelihoods Initiatives Project (DILIP) was run through the Community Health Global Network: Uttarakhand Cluster and implemented by the Herbertpur Christian Hospital in Uttarakhand, India. The project ran from August 2016 to July 2...
One of the distinctive marks of the Christian faith is the message that the God who made everything wants to have a personal relationship with us. God is both ultimate and intimate. When we look up at the stars on a clear night we can often think like the Psal...
Our Bringing Light to Rural Communities project, run by our partner, the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM), in the Solomon Islands, is about to enter a new phase.
Details of the new phase of the project will be revealed in the coming months. In the meanti...
We have just received an update from our Women’s Empowerment project in Kolkata, India.
The project is run by our partner there, Cathedral Relief Service (CRS). They provide skills training for more than 300 women in slum communities so they can set up the...
Part of our work with the Anglican Church of Kenya involves using the law to empower women.
Consolata is the mother of two children; both adults at 21 and 18. She was married, but left her husband when the youngest child was two years old. She left him as hi...
Eunice Wangui has been trained as a Guidance and Counselling teacher for the primary school that she teaches at in Kenya. She is linked with our partner there, the Anglican Church of Kenya.
She told a story about how she was teaching a Standard 5 (Year 5) cla...
On her first visit to our Mozambican partner, our newest program staff member, Kylie, shares her thoughts about what she saw.
Could you picture yourself working in a field day after day, sun blazing, humidity extreme, clean water scarce – only to give a...
Have you ever seen a volcano shooting lava into the sky?
That’s what happened in September last year, and has happened again in recent weeks on the island of Ambae in Vanuatu.
When the Manaro volcano threatened to erupt last year, it forced the Vanua...
Our Marketing Manager, Brian Holmes, shared his reflections on a recent trip to Kenya to see the work of our partner, the Anglican Church of Kenya, Mount Kenya West.
The most common, first question I was asked on arriving in Kenya was, ‘Have you e...
The Spafford Children's Center has been providing for children in East Jerusalem for nearly 100 years.
Started by the family of Horatio Spafford, who wrote the hymn, It Is Well With My Soul, we are honoured to support the centre in its current work of prov...
