Living with a disability is challenging. In remote and rural settings in Vanuatu, these challenges are compounded by the dangers that come with the threat of natural disasters, like Tropical Cyclone Harold that hit earlier this year. This is how the Anglican C...
The Towards Abundant Life Program is implemented by the Diocese Missionaria de Nampula in Mozambique. The project has been running since 2011, funded through the Australian Government’s Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) as well as from donations in Aus...
Health and wellbeing is still a focus of our Towards Abundant Life program in Mozambique.
Anglican Overseas Aid has been working with the Anglican Church in Nampula and Cabo Del Gado provinces in Mozambique since 2011. The work has been focused on commu...
Earlier this year, Belinda Lauria, our Solomon Islands Project Manager, Quality and Compliance, visited the Solomon Islands. Here she shares why this program is so special.
In March, (just before the COVID-19 travel restrictions were put in place!) I vi...
How is COVID-19 affecting the countries we work in?
Though most of us would say our lives have been considerably impacted in some way, we know that global catastrophes such as COVID-19 hit the poor in developing countries hardest. Many of the world’s po...
After Category 5 Cyclone Harold battered the Pacific in the lead up to Easter this year, people in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have been faced with the dual challenge of responding to the threat of COVID-19 and recovering from another environmental disaste...
Teachers trained in child counselling through our partner, Anglican Church of Kenya, Mount Kenya West Diocese (ACK), are unique guardians of child rights in rural Kenya.
In communities where we work in Nyeri County, poverty leads to many family problems...
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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