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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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....
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We recently took part in the Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leadership Conference in Melbourne. Two of our staff, along with Ethel George from our partner in Vanuatu, made significant contributions to the conference.
The first presentation we contributed was by ...
An aspect of our work that is not often highlighted is our work with blind people in South Africa. Our ANCP Manager, Vanessa Little, saw the impact of this when she spent time recently with the Eastern Cape Braille Institute near the town of Grahamstown.
Th...
Last year we provided $10,000 from our Rapid Response Emergency Fund to our friends in Ambae, Vanuatu. This was to assist them with their recovery and rehabilitation efforts following the volcanic activity that had forced the evacuation of the entire popul...
The Livelihoods and Women's Empowerment Program is implemented by the Anglican Church of Melanesia in the Vanuatu. The project has been running since 2012, funded through the Australian Government’s Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) as well as from do...
As some of our projects are funded through the Australian Government's aid program, we are required to report back to the Government on the progress of these projects. One of these projects is the Imarisha project in Kenya, which seeks to build safer communiti...
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 last year, 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 cance...
