Tropical Cyclone Harold impacted the Pacific island nation of Solomon Islands as it passed by as a Category 1 storm on April 2 2020, before making landfall and devastating the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu as a stronger Category 5 storm on April 6.
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
