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 implemented by the Herbertpur Christian Hospital in Uttarakhand, India. The project ran from August 2016 to July 2018. Financial support provided by Anglican Overseas Aid.
The goal of...
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...
Prue Boyd is a CMS missionary who has worked as an audiologist for many years. Much of that time has been spent in the central African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Anglican Overseas Aid is providing a grant to Prue for her audiology work ...
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...
The response to our End of Financial Year Appeal has been wonderful.
As well as featuring Mrs Yin Yin from Myanmar (pictured left), you will recall that the front cover of our appeal brochure featured Mercy, a mother of two from Kenya. Her story is one of h...
Anglican Overseas Aid has welcomed the recognition of one of our Ambassadors, Peter Routley, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for 2018.
Peter was awarded the AM (Member in the General Division) for "significant service to the international community thr...
The Vanuatu Government declared a state of emergency for the island of Ambae in mid-April 2018 as volcanic ash was again spewing ash and smoke into the air.
The volcanic activity has been causing acid rain and potentially making the island uninhabitable...
As part of Common Grace's Lenten 2018 reflection series, our CEO, Bob Mitchell, explored how, when we turn to God, and put our trust in him, his grace makes us pure and we are invited into a new way of relating with God.
Throughout Scripture we see God reveal...
Anglican Overseas Aid has welcomed the recognition of its Board Chair, Associate Professor Julian Rait, in the Australia Day Honours List for 2018.
Associate Professor Rait, who has been on the Board of Anglican Overseas Aid since 2012 and been Chair since ...
Florence Nderitu is a proud mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
She has also worked with the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK), the Diocese of Mount Kenya West, for 17 years. She knows a thing or two about serving people. She is currently the Project C...
A delegation linked to our work in Kenya recently visited Melbourne. They included people from our partner, the Anglican Church of Kenya, as well as from the Kenyan Ministry of Health. We also took the opportunity to enable the visitors to attend St Jude’s Ang...
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