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Anglican aid agency Anglicord and the Asha Foundation, an Indian organisation working with people in over 50 of Delhi’s slums, have announced a partnership to help short circuit the cycle of poverty for thousands of young people.
Getting to Zero - a World AIDS day reflection
Rebecca Vander Meulen, from the Anglican Diocese of Niassa in Mozambique, describes the impact of antiretroviral medication, but warns us that we have a long way to go before we reach the goals of zero infections and zero AIDS related deaths.
Four days to save the world:
Global network demands governments close three crucial gaps in UN climate talks immediately
An Anglican Response to Stopping Violence Against Women
Kate Higgins is Anglicord’s Pacific Program Manager, based in Solomon Islands, a small nation comprised of over 900 islands in the Pacific Ocean, where there are some of the highest rates of violence against women in the world.
“Jump at Govt dollar for dollar offer for donations to East Africa”, Australians told
Australians should jump at today’s offer from the Australian government to match their donations dollar for dollar, to aid the Horn of Africa, according to Misha Coleman, a leader in Australia’s overseas aid and development sector.
When is a sausage worth $1000?
The community of Kyneton was moved by what it saw in the news about the record-breaking drought and subsequent famine in East Africa, and they came up with a novel way to raise money to help.
Violence against women in pacific undermines region, says aid agency
Levels of violence against women in parts of the Pacific are “horrific” and must be addressed if development is to have any chance in the Pacific region, said an Australian aid agency head today
Ongoing bombing kills children in Gaza and threatens hospital
Innocent people, including children, are once again among those who have been killed during ongoing air strikes against Gaza by Israel. At least two children are amongst an estimated nineteen people killed when Israel retaliated against unidentified rocket attacks over the last month.
Ethiopia: medication needed to tackle measles and water contamination
Measles outbreaks, decaying animal carcasses and even ash contamination from volcanic activity are combining to threaten lives in the Afar communities of Ethiopia, but Anglicord’s partners are working hard to address the needs of a struggling community further impoverished by drought.
Rain comes, but no relief for life-giving livestock
Erratic and localised storms are an ironic extra hardship for the pastoralist communities of the Afar, Ethiopia, which are struggling under the protracted and severe drought in East Africa. The Afar rely on their cattle for income, and without them they cannot afford the skyrocketing food prices.
Victorian MP Maria Vamvakinou is raising the alarming death rates of women affected by breast cancer in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian and Israeli authorities during a field study of the Palestinian Territories this Easter. Ms Vamvakinou is the federal Labor member for Caldwell in Victoria.
Anglicord today backed a call by an international gathering of influential Christian women for non-violent resistance to end Israel’s “inhuman” occupation of Palestine.
The women made the call during a meeting in Bethlehem to mark the first anniversary of the launch of an historic document appealing for an end to occupation.
