Thanks to the faithful prayer and generous giving from our supporters, Anglican Aid has seen the establishment and fulfilment of projects in some of the neediest regions of our world. By the grace of God, projects across humanitarian aid, education, health, and WASH have blessed many, and continue to bear fruit as local partner organisations and community leaders remain active in serving them.

We are excited to be able to share just some of the many encouraging stories with you!

Thank you again for your partnership in this gospel work; showing Christ’s love through practical aid so that many may live, and live to the full!
(John 10:10)

SOUTH AFRICA: Timion Disability Counselling and Community Development

(2016 – 2024)

From 2016 to 2024, Anglican Aid partnered with Timion Disability Counselling and Community Development in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, to provide Christian care and hope to children with disabilities and their caregivers.  

In South Africa, many children living with a disability don’t have access to regular therapy or assistive equipment. They’re often considered cursed, so are isolated from society. With the support of Anglican Aid, Timion designed, produced, and supplied affordable and durable assistive equipment, and therapists and counsellors visited families in their homes to provide support and therapy. Timion also ran recreation and respite camps for kids and parents, providing an opportunity to build true friendships and encounter Christian fellowship and teaching.

MADAGASCAR, MALAWI AND MOZAMBIQUE : Cyclone Freddy Relief 

(2023)

In February and March 2023, Cyclone Freddy struck Southern Africa causing widespread destruction and loss of life. Anglican Aid provided support for emergency relief through Anglican dioceses in Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi.  

In Mozambique, 80 year-old Heide was asleep when Cyclone Freddy struck her village and tore the roof from her house. Heide’s small field was also flooded and in the days after the cyclone, thieves looted her home, leaving her with no food or clothes. She said: “l was lucky to be the first person to receive a bag of rice, soap, water guard (purifier) and used clothes, which our church gave to help me and my grandson. I am grateful to the Anglican church and its partner Anglican Aid.” 

TANZANIA: Theological Education Conference

(2023)

Following requests from Anglican bishops in Tanzania, Anglican Aid provided the support for a conference to plan for the future of theological education in Tanzania. 

In March 2023, Theological Education staff of Anglican Aid, together with Bill Salier of the GAFCON Theological Educators Network, joined this gathering.

The 28 attendees, including 16 bishops and 10 Bible college principals from across Tanzania, took the opportunity to lay foundations for curriculum review and set a course that we pray will strengthen the Anglican church in Tanzania into the future. 

PAKISTAN: 1toAnother Flood Relief

(2022 – 2023)

Pakistan suffered devastating floods from June to October 2022. More than 1,700 people were killed and over 2 million were left homeless. Anglican Aid partnered with 1toAnother and the diocese of Hyderabad, Church of Pakistan to provide food, safe drinking water, medical supplies and tents to meet the immediate needs of those affected.

1toAnother’s Director, Haroon Younis shared, “We are very grateful to Anglican Aid who financially supported us and provided funds for flood relief work . . . Being believers in Jesus, we get a chance to say to people we help that we are not the ones who deserve to be praised and glorified, rather praise and glory be to God who has chosen us to help you and perhaps this is one way in which we spread the word of God.”

TANZANIA: Rorya Water and Sanitation

(2018 – 2023)

From 2018 to 2023, Anglican Aid partnered with the Diocese of Rorya in rural Tanzania to provide safe water and improved sanitation to Tanzanian villages. Microflush toilets were constructed in the villages of Irenyi, Omoya, Nyanduga, Kisumwa, Kowak, Panyakoo, Luanda, Nyang’ombe, Randa, Chereche and many also had boreholes drilled. 

With a commitment to create long lasting and sustainable cultural change, health and sanitation training was delivered to schools and churches in the dioceses, alongside the building of the water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. 

Because of this project, families living in these villages now have access to toilets and can drink clean uncontaminated water. Kids are now learning how to properly wash their hands from a young age, leading to greatly improved health with less disease and death; and women and girls no longer have to walk hours to fetch water, which means there are more girls in school completing their education. 

THAILAND: Chainat Disabilities

(2017 – 2023)

Anglican Aid partnered with Chainat Disabilities from 2017 to help improve the quality of life for children living with disabilities in Thailand and their families. Chainat Disabilities provided physiotherapy, preparation for mainstream schooling and access to education, skills development for independent living, regular Christian ministry and opportunities to attend Christian camps. They also worked with local communities to help improve the acceptance of people living with disabilities. 

The lives of many children and their families were transformed, including five-year-old Ikkew, who was born with Down Syndrome and attended one of Chainat’s centres. His Grandmother said, “Without Chainat’s help Ikkew would not have been able to start attending mainstream school. He would have had to either be at home, or in special programs.” Because he was able to school Ikkew made friends and felt included as part of mainstream society. This feeling of acceptance was also extended into his home life as Chainat workers had also taken the time to sit with Ikkew’s neighbours, explaining disabilities to them and helping them to understand Down Syndrome. Ikkew and his grandparents’ came to feel much happier and more comfortable in their community.

SRI LANKA: Economic Crisis Relief

(2022)

In 2022, Sri Lanka suffered an economic crisis which resulted in high inflation and severe shortages of food, medicines, fuel and other essentials.

Anglican Aid partnered with Anglican Relief and Development Fund Australia, the Anglican Church of Ceylon and Agape Community Healthcare Home to provide emergency supplies, medical care and income-generating support for people in need. 

FIJI: Taveuni Water Provision

(2021)

In partnership with the Anglican Diocese of Polynesia, Vanua Levu and Taveuni, Anglican Aid responded to the lack of clean water supplies in Fiji – which have been exacerbated by Cyclone Yasa and Ana, climate change and limited facilities. 

Cyclone Yasa (December 2020) and Cyclone Ana (February 2021) destroyed and contaminated water supplies across Fiji’s islands. Drinking contaminated water can increase the spread of waterborne diseases such as dysentery and diarrhoea.

Thanks to Anglican Aid’s supporters, pipes were repaired and 10 water tanks were installed on the island of Vanua Levu to serve the surrounding communities. 

The fixed pipes have already started to make a difference, one beneficiary told us:

“Now these people have clean water from the local water source. Before the people were needing to walk to the top of the hill. During this wet season vulnerable and older people find it very hard to climb to the water source, it is better that the people can stay indoors and drink the water these pipe will bring.”

Another beneficiary expressed that previously water had to be obtained from drains, but now water tank has helped peoples to drink and cook with clean water.

Thanks to those who supported this project and helped local churches supply water to those in need and showing Christ’s love in action.

MADAGASCAR: Famine Relief

(2020-2021)

In 2020, the drought and famine in Madasgascar was the worst in living memory of this country  with many dying in the Southern Androy and Anosy regions of the Anglican Diocese of Toliara, where Anglican Aid has close connections. A report from the Diocese said, “acute malnutrition has struck 120,000 children, youth and elderly people, [with people] so desperate for food they have started eating ash combined with tamarin fruit or cactus leaves.”

Thanks to the generous supporters of Anglican Aid, we were able to send $20,000 in emergency funds for rice, beans, and water for families in the Toliara region. Students supported through Anglican Aid’s Bible College Student Sponsorship program helped to distribute the food and water.

As well as coordinating relief distribution and preparing meals for the hungry, local churches are accompanying this practical love with the good news of eternal life through Christ.

Reverend Berthier Lainirina, the Provincial Secretary for the Anglican Church of the Indian Ocean, told us that the number of people registered to be baptised was 1000, and the number of new parishes had grown from 9 to 13 in the Diocese of Toliara.

Reverend Gaston (who was a part of the PTC Pilot Program supported by Anglican Aid) from Amboasary Parish in southern Madagascar, where the famine was most severe, participated in distributing the relief. He said, ‘a lot of people are being baptised because they were being touched by the love, and asking ‘what religion is this that cares? ’”

Watch the video above to see how God’s grace has spread in Madagascar through the gospel and emergency aid.

This aid coupled with the Word of God saved many lives during this tragedy in Madagascar. Anglican Aid are continuing to partner with the Diocese of Toliaria to deliver sustainable water solutions for the region. Find out about our continued partnership with the Diocese of Toliara here: Madagascar: Water and Resilience Project.

INDIA: St Andrew’s High School, Hyderabad COVID support

(2020-2021)

Anglican Aid partnered with the Ebenezer Progressive Education Society to provide COVID-19 relief for St. Andrew’s High School, Hyderabad in 2020. This project contributed to staff salaries, bills, medical assistance, food distribution, and general maintenance fees.

The financial support of staff helped to pay for rent, put food on the table, and save the lives of many during the severe second wave of COVID-19 in India. 

With many shops and large organisations closing down, the school was able to weather the storm through the giving of Anglican Aid’s supporters.

Mrs. Maria was one of the teachers at St Andrew’s High School and her family relies on her salary alone. Thanks to salary being sustained she was able to continue to provide food for her family and take care of her sick mother who later passed away during the pandemic.

She said; ‘St. Andrew’s always stood by me and was a blessing in all my troubles.  Today my family is together because of St. Andrew’s.  Had it [not] been for the help I received from St. Andrew’s when my mother passed away, I do not know what would have happened to me or my family.’

SOUTH AFRICA: Reach Restoration

(2018-2021)

Anglican Aid worked in partnership with REACH-SA (Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa)  to support people who were struggling to overcome addiction. The program also helped their families who have often suffered with them throughout their addiction. 

Located in Port Elizabeth, the Restoration Centre allows men the time and space they need to break the cycle of addiction by changing  lifestyle, ways of thinking and reactions. 

Reach Restoration helped people to learn about God and see how the Cross fits into their lives. 

Marius came to REACH because he’d developed problems with gambling and drinking alcohol after becoming very anxious. During this time he lost his reason for living and turned away from God. At REACH he was taught how to cope with daily challenges by using God’s Word and he began to find himself again and to rebuild his relationship with God.

UGANDA: AmFuture

(2017 – 2020)

AmFuture was established in 2014 by Christians wanting to reach out to youth struggling in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. It’s aim was to bring hope and inspiration to the 130 young people it worked with during a time of high unemployment. Projects such as the Youth Gathering, the Creative Arts Program, the Outreach Program, a Piggery Project and the Banana Fibre Project helped to create jobs and build hope amongst participants.

Emma* shared in 2019 about her being part of a group of young people who developed and ran their ‘Easter Street Jam.’ This

involved setting up a stage which looks out onto a busy street in Kampala, and showcasing local community talents in music, dancing, drama and poetry to name a few. Over 2000 people came and attended the event with many hearing more about AmFuture and the Easter message.

Emma’s role was to mingle with the crowd and talk to people who were new to AmFuture or from the local community. Many expressed an interest in wanting to know more about Jesus and wanted to join AmFuture. Emma said, ‘I am so thankful for where God has placed me and for how far he has brought me.’

*Name changed for privacy