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HOME - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDGET INVOLVEDCONTACT USWORLD OF GIFTSGIVE TODAYRESOURCESOUR WORK & IMPACT The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief. With the support of Anglicans across Canada, PWRDF partners with organizations working to increase healthy pregnancies and births, reduce gender inequality, relieve hunger and break the cycle of poverty in the world’s most vulnerable communities. GIVE TODAY - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND To donate by phone, please call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083 or leave a voicemail at 1- (866) 308-7973 if you need assistance. You may also mail a cheque to PWRDF at 80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. Home. Give Today. Donate Now to Where Needs Are Greatest. Donate on Behalf of a Group. GET VACCINATED, THEN PAY IT FORWARD Get vaccinated, then pay it forward. April 26, 2021. By Janice Biehn. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has launched a new Vaccine Equity Fund to contribute to the worldwide vaccination effort from COVID-19. Money donated to this fund will be used to support our partners as they prepare for vaccine rollout in the coming months. A LIGHT FOR EVERY BIRTH Give light, give solar PWRDF’s newest project is bringing light to moms and babies in Mozambique. For most parents-to-be, having light and electricity during their child’s birth is not a second thought, but for many in rural Mozambique giving birth in the dark is a

reality.

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Your donations go directly to their stated use unless an item is overfunded, in which case funds will be allocated to an area of similar need. Need help? Check out our instruction page. Prefer to make your gift over the phone? Our operators are standing by to take your call at. 1-877- PWRDF RESPONDS TO APPEAL FOR GAZA HOSPITAL PWRDF is responding to an urgent appeal from the Most Reverend Hosam Naoum, Archbishop of Jerusalem, for funds for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza, with a grant of $10,000. The newly installed Archbishop issued a statement May 17 in response to the “rapid escalation of violence throughout the Holy Land,” which began earlier that week. HOME - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDGET INVOLVEDCONTACT USWORLD OF GIFTSGIVE TODAYRESOURCESOUR WORK & IMPACT The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief. With the support of Anglicans across Canada, PWRDF partners with organizations working to increase healthy pregnancies and births, reduce gender inequality, relieve hunger and break the cycle of poverty in the world’s most vulnerable communities. GIVE TODAY - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND To donate by phone, please call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083 or leave a voicemail at 1- (866) 308-7973 if you need assistance. You may also mail a cheque to PWRDF at 80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. Home. Give Today. Donate Now to Where Needs Are Greatest. Donate on Behalf of a Group. GET VACCINATED, THEN PAY IT FORWARD Get vaccinated, then pay it forward. April 26, 2021. By Janice Biehn. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has launched a new Vaccine Equity Fund to contribute to the worldwide vaccination effort from COVID-19. Money donated to this fund will be used to support our partners as they prepare for vaccine rollout in the coming months. A LIGHT FOR EVERY BIRTH Give light, give solar PWRDF’s newest project is bringing light to moms and babies in Mozambique. For most parents-to-be, having light and electricity during their child’s birth is not a second thought, but for many in rural Mozambique giving birth in the dark is a

reality.

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Share Our Stories. Videos, Under the Sun newsletter, monthly Email Update and bulletin inserts. PWRDF regularly publishes stories about the work of our partners and volunteers on this website. You can find them by clicking the News button at the top of the home page, or right

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OUR ONLINE OFFERINGS Kevin has a lifelong interest in community development with a focus on changing lives. He has been working with rural communities in Kenya for 10 years (eight with UDO) enabling them to improve water supply, food production, income and health. In 2014, Kevin received the UNDP Equator Initiative Award on behalf of Utooni Development Organization LENT 2021 - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND Lent 2021 Children’s Resource. Explore Lent with your Sunday School, your children or grandchildren using this resource designed for 6- to 12-year-olds. Each week is centered on a PWRDF partner taking climate action. Download the entire resource here. Download Week 1 Activity Sheet. Download Week 2 Activity Sheet. Download Week 3 Activity Sheet. JOIN THE YOUTH MOVEMENT Youth Council Openings The PWRDF Youth Council has three openings. If you are between 16 and 30 and live in the Eccelsiastical provinces of B.C./Yukon, Rupert’s Land or Ontario and are passionate about social action and social justice check out the application forms below, and apply today! Ontario B.C./Yukon Rupert’s Land Welcome to the

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PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR PEOPLE DISPLACED BY ST Volcanic activity that began April 2 at La Soufriere volcano in St. Vincent and the Grenadines continues. On April 8, Prime Minister Gonsalves issued an evacuation order for those in the red zone closer to the volcano to move to shelters. According to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), an estimated 20,000

people are

ALL MOTHERS AND CHILDREN COUNT All Mothers and Children Count. A comprehensive health, food security and nutrition program in rural Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Mozambique. The AMCC Project is a four-year initiative financed by PWRDF and the Government of Canada. It began in March 2016 and ran until March 2020. The project was implemented in Burundi by Village

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RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. SHOP PWRDF’S WORLD OF GIFTS The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has been connecting Anglicans in Canada to people in need since 1958. It is named for the Primate, the head of the Anglican Church in Canada. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

ALL MOTHERS AND CHILDREN COUNT PWRDF RESPONDS TO APPEAL FOR GAZA HOSPITAL PWRDF is responding to an urgent appeal from the Most Reverend Hosam Naoum, Archbishop of Jerusalem, for funds for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza, with a grant of $10,000. The newly installed Archbishop issued a statement May 17 in response to the “rapid escalation of violence throughout the Holy Land,” which began earlier that week. THE REV. PATRICK STEPHENS Diocese of Ottawa Patrick grew up in the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa. After graduating from Algonquin College and becoming a Registered Practical Nurse, he volunteered for a year with the Mennonite Central Committee as a Serving and Learning Together (SALT) participant in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. During that time, Patrick received Bengali language training, supported local development and peace HOME - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDGET INVOLVEDCONTACT USWORLD OF GIFTSGIVE TODAYRESOURCESOUR WORK & IMPACT The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief. With the support of Anglicans across Canada, PWRDF partners with organizations working to increase healthy pregnancies and births, reduce gender inequality, relieve hunger and break the cycle of poverty in the world’s most vulnerable communities. GIVE TODAY - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND To donate by phone, please call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083 or leave a voicemail at 1- (866) 308-7973 if you need assistance. You may also mail a cheque to PWRDF at 80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. Home. Give Today. Donate Now to Where Needs Are Greatest. Donate on Behalf of a Group. GET VACCINATED, THEN PAY IT FORWARD Get vaccinated, then pay it forward. April 26, 2021. By Janice Biehn. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has launched a new Vaccine Equity Fund to contribute to the worldwide vaccination effort from COVID-19. Money donated to this fund will be used to support our partners as they prepare for vaccine rollout in the coming months. A LIGHT FOR EVERY BIRTH Give light, give solar PWRDF’s newest project is bringing light to moms and babies in Mozambique. For most parents-to-be, having light and electricity during their child’s birth is not a second thought, but for many in rural Mozambique giving birth in the dark is a

reality.

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Cost: Free to a maximum of 100 per parish, per year. PWRDF donation envelopes are for use as bulletin inserts on PWRDF Sundays and throughout the year, for special events and for celebrations. Make them available at your church information table all year long with SHOP PWRDF’S WORLD OF GIFTS The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has been connecting Anglicans in Canada to people in need since 1958. It is named for the Primate, the head of the Anglican Church in Canada.

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WORSHIP RESOURCE SUPPORTS COVENANT TO CARE FOR THE EARTH August 25, 2020. By Suzanne Rumsey. In the time before COVID-19 (remember then?) I developed “A Covenant for Climate Justice,” a worship resource for PWRDF focussing on climate justice and creation care. Using the two “trees of life” that frame the biblical text – in Genesis and Revelation – I invited worshippers to consider what it means to “keep covenant” with God and with FRED SAYS- THE 5 A'S OF FOOD SECURITY Fred Says – PWRDF’s Food Security Campaign During Year 3 of the Fred Says Food Security Campaign, we are digging deeper to broaden our understanding of food security and food sovereignty. There are 5 basic principles of food security, which we like to call the 5 A’s. They help to educate people on the complexities MAPPING A PATH TO TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION At General Synod in July 2019, a historic motion to create a self-determining Indigenous Church was passed. There was a general call for more education for reconciliation tools to support Settlers and Indigenous Canadians alike in learning more about truth and reconciliation. PWRDF is poised to help fill the gap with Mapping the

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RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

SHOP PWRDF’S WORLD OF GIFTS The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has been connecting Anglicans in Canada to people in need since 1958. It is named for the Primate, the head of the Anglican Church in Canada. OUR ONLINE OFFERINGS Kevin has a lifelong interest in community development with a focus on changing lives. He has been working with rural communities in Kenya for 10 years (eight with UDO) enabling them to improve water supply, food production, income and health. In 2014, Kevin received the UNDP Equator Initiative Award on behalf of Utooni Development Organization ALL MOTHERS AND CHILDREN COUNT PWRDF RESPONDS TO APPEAL FOR GAZA HOSPITAL PWRDF is responding to an urgent appeal from the Most Reverend Hosam Naoum, Archbishop of Jerusalem, for funds for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza, with a grant of $10,000. The newly installed Archbishop issued a statement May 17 in response to the “rapid escalation of violence throughout the Holy Land,” which began earlier that week. HOME - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDGET INVOLVEDCONTACT USWORLD OF GIFTSGIVE TODAYRESOURCESOUR WORK & IMPACT The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief. With the support of Anglicans across Canada, PWRDF partners with organizations working to increase healthy pregnancies and births, reduce gender inequality, relieve hunger and break the cycle of poverty in the world’s most vulnerable communities. GIVE TODAY - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND To donate by phone, please call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083 or leave a voicemail at 1- (866) 308-7973 if you need assistance. You may also mail a cheque to PWRDF at 80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. Home. Give Today. Donate Now to Where Needs Are Greatest. Donate on Behalf of a Group. GET VACCINATED, THEN PAY IT FORWARD Get vaccinated, then pay it forward. April 26, 2021. By Janice Biehn. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has launched a new Vaccine Equity Fund to contribute to the worldwide vaccination effort from COVID-19. Money donated to this fund will be used to support our partners as they prepare for vaccine rollout in the coming months. A LIGHT FOR EVERY BIRTH Give light, give solar PWRDF’s newest project is bringing light to moms and babies in Mozambique. For most parents-to-be, having light and electricity during their child’s birth is not a second thought, but for many in rural Mozambique giving birth in the dark is a

reality.

RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

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PWRDF GAZA RESPONSE

Last month PWRDF announced an initial $25,000 grant to the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) appeal through the ACT Alliance to support the continuing work of the Ahli Arab Hospital, an Anglican ministry located in Gaza City run by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. Since the beginning of the crisis, Ahli Arab Hospital staff has maintained HOME - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDGET INVOLVEDCONTACT USWORLD OF GIFTSGIVE TODAYRESOURCESOUR WORK & IMPACT The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief. With the support of Anglicans across Canada, PWRDF partners with organizations working to increase healthy pregnancies and births, reduce gender inequality, relieve hunger and break the cycle of poverty in the world’s most vulnerable communities. GIVE TODAY - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND To donate by phone, please call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083 or leave a voicemail at 1- (866) 308-7973 if you need assistance. You may also mail a cheque to PWRDF at 80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. Home. Give Today. Donate Now to Where Needs Are Greatest. Donate on Behalf of a Group. GET VACCINATED, THEN PAY IT FORWARD Get vaccinated, then pay it forward. April 26, 2021. By Janice Biehn. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has launched a new Vaccine Equity Fund to contribute to the worldwide vaccination effort from COVID-19. Money donated to this fund will be used to support our partners as they prepare for vaccine rollout in the coming months. A LIGHT FOR EVERY BIRTH Give light, give solar PWRDF’s newest project is bringing light to moms and babies in Mozambique. For most parents-to-be, having light and electricity during their child’s birth is not a second thought, but for many in rural Mozambique giving birth in the dark is a

reality.

RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

reality.

RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

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PWRDF AND CLIMATE ACTION The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calls climate change the defining issue of our time. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. Without drastic and immediate action, scientists HOME - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDGET INVOLVEDCONTACT USWORLD OF GIFTSGIVE TODAYRESOURCESOUR WORK & IMPACT The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief. With the support of Anglicans across Canada, PWRDF partners with organizations working to increase healthy pregnancies and births, reduce gender inequality, relieve hunger and break the cycle of poverty in the world’s most vulnerable communities. GIVE TODAY - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND To donate by phone, please call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083 or leave a voicemail at 1- (866) 308-7973 if you need assistance. You may also mail a cheque to PWRDF at 80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. Home. Give Today. Donate Now to Where Needs Are Greatest. Donate on Behalf of a Group. GET VACCINATED, THEN PAY IT FORWARD Get vaccinated, then pay it forward. April 26, 2021. By Janice Biehn. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has launched a new Vaccine Equity Fund to contribute to the worldwide vaccination effort from COVID-19. Money donated to this fund will be used to support our partners as they prepare for vaccine rollout in the coming months. A LIGHT FOR EVERY BIRTH Give light, give solar PWRDF’s newest project is bringing light to moms and babies in Mozambique. For most parents-to-be, having light and electricity during their child’s birth is not a second thought, but for many in rural Mozambique giving birth in the dark is a

reality.

RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

reality.

RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

ANNUAL RESOURCES

OUR WORK & IMPACT

WAYS TO GIVE

WORLD OF GIFTS

SHARE OUR STORIES

here.

reality.

RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

reality.

RIDE FOR REFUGE 2021 Ride for Refuge 2021. PWRDF is once again gearing up for the Ride for Refuge. This year’s ride is October 2 and will once again be a “Ride Freestyle” event allowing teams and individuals to participate in the way that best moves you! This year’s Ride will be supporting our newest project, A Light for Every Birth. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

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The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund offices are located on the third floor of Anglican Church House in downtown Toronto. Email: Phone: 416-924-9192 Toll Free: at 1-866-308-7973 Mail: 80 Hayden Street, 3rd floor Toronto, Ontario M4Y 3G2 Charitable Number: 8664 34640 RR0001 To reach any of our staff directly please refer to the CONTACT US - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund offices are located on the third floor of Anglican Church House in downtown Toronto. Email: pwrdf@pwrdf.org Phone: 416-924-9192 Toll Free: at 1-866-308-7973 Mail: 80 Hayden Street, 3rd floor Toronto, Ontario M4Y 3G2 Charitable Number: 8664 34640 RR0001 To reach any of our staff directly please refer to the SHOP PWRDF’S WORLD OF GIFTS The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has been connecting Anglicans in Canada to people in need since 1958. It is named for the Primate, the head of the Anglican Church in Canada.

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WORLD OF GIFTS

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DONOR PROVIDES $100,000 MATCHING FUND FOR LIGHT FOR EVERY The future looks even brighter for moms and babies in Mozambique awaiting installation of a “solar suitcase” at rural health clinics. A generous donor has offered to match all donations to the Light for Every Birth project, dollar for dollar, up to $100,000. Funds donated between May 26 and September 30, 2021 will be eligible.

PWRDF GAZA RESPONSE

Last month PWRDF announced an initial $25,000 grant to the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) appeal through the ACT Alliance to support the continuing work of the Ahli Arab Hospital, an Anglican ministry located in Gaza City run by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. Since the beginning of the crisis, Ahli Arab Hospital staff has maintained HOME - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDGET INVOLVEDCONTACT USWORLD OF GIFTSGIVE TODAYRESOURCESOUR WORK & IMPACT The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief. With the support of Anglicans across Canada, PWRDF partners with organizations working to increase healthy pregnancies and births, reduce gender inequality, relieve hunger and break the cycle of poverty in the world’s most vulnerable communities. GET VACCINATED, THEN PAY IT FORWARD Get vaccinated, then pay it forward. April 26, 2021. By Janice Biehn. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has launched a new Vaccine Equity Fund to contribute to the worldwide vaccination effort from COVID-19. Money donated to this fund will be used to support our partners as they prepare for vaccine rollout in the coming months. SHOP PWRDF’S WORLD OF GIFTS The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has been connecting Anglicans in Canada to people in need since 1958. It is named for the Primate, the head of the Anglican Church in Canada. A LIGHT FOR EVERY BIRTH Give light, give solar PWRDF’s newest project is bringing light to moms and babies in Mozambique. For most parents-to-be, having light and electricity during their child’s birth is not a second thought, but for many in rural Mozambique giving birth in the dark is a

reality.

GIVE TODAY - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND To donate by phone, please call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083 or leave a voicemail at 1- (866) 308-7973 if you need assistance. You may also mail a cheque to PWRDF at 80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. Home. Give Today. Donate Now to Where Needs Are Greatest. Donate on Behalf of a Group. PWRDF ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR INDIA PWRDF is now accepting donations to support India as it struggles with the current COVID-19 outbreak. While Canada faces its own challenges and grief over COVID-19, the images and stories of mass deaths, blackmarket oxygen tanks and parking lot crematoria are shocking and heartbreaking. Several fellow ACT members in the region – some

former PWRDF

SHARE OUR STORIES

here.

CONTACT US - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund offices are located on the third floor of Anglican Church House in downtown Toronto. Email: pwrdf@pwrdf.org Phone: 416-924-9192 Toll Free: at 1-866-308-7973 Mail: 80 Hayden Street, 3rd floor Toronto, Ontario M4Y 3G2 Charitable Number: 8664 34640 RR0001 To reach any of our staff directly please refer to the ALL MOTHERS AND CHILDREN COUNT JOIN THE YOUTH MOVEMENT HOME - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDGET INVOLVEDCONTACT USWORLD OF GIFTSGIVE TODAYRESOURCESOUR WORK & IMPACT The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief. With the support of Anglicans across Canada, PWRDF partners with organizations working to increase healthy pregnancies and births, reduce gender inequality, relieve hunger and break the cycle of poverty in the world’s most vulnerable communities. GET VACCINATED, THEN PAY IT FORWARD Get vaccinated, then pay it forward. April 26, 2021. By Janice Biehn. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has launched a new Vaccine Equity Fund to contribute to the worldwide vaccination effort from COVID-19. Money donated to this fund will be used to support our partners as they prepare for vaccine rollout in the coming months. GIVE TODAY - THE PRIMATE'S WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND To donate by phone, please call Donor Relations Officer Mike Ziemerink at 416-822-9083 or leave a voicemail at 1- (866) 308-7973 if you need assistance. You may also mail a cheque to PWRDF at 80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. Home. Give Today. Donate Now to Where Needs Are Greatest. Donate on Behalf of a Group. A LIGHT FOR EVERY BIRTH Give light, give solar PWRDF’s newest project is bringing light to moms and babies in Mozambique. For most parents-to-be, having light and electricity during their child’s birth is not a second thought, but for many in rural Mozambique giving birth in the dark is a

reality.

former PWRDF

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THE LIFE OF WOMEN IN KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP Over 40% of the total population of these are women. The camp is located in a non-agricultural part of the Kenya, North-West of the capital city Nairobi, approximately over 1,000km away. The temperatures in Kakuma are relatively high, often characterised by hot and dusty weather. During the rainy seasons, the floods from the

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Vaccine Equity Fund supports COVID response in Liberia Donor provides $100,000 matching fund for Light for Every Birth

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Chicken farming provides income opportunities for women in Colombia PWRDF responds to appeal for Gaza hospital PWRDF IS MAKING A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

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PWRDF Development Project In June 2019, PWRDF responded to an ACT Alliance emergency appeal for Venezuela.\n","image":false,"caption":"","place":{"address":"8007,

Bol\u00edvar,

Venezuela","lat":6.4237500000000000710542735760100185871124267578125,"lng":-66.589730000000002974047674797475337982177734375,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJcw5aPI0D2Y0R2-CPDazYlmw","state":"Bol\u00edvar","post_code":"8007","country":"Venezuela","country_short":"VE"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/venezuela\/"},{"title":"Colombia","type":"development","content":" In the Paramo de Pisba highlands in the Department of Boyaca, Colombia, most people work in either agriculture, animal husbandry or traditional mining. But as mining activities continue to expand into agricultural land, more and more people are being forced to move higher in the mountains to cultivate the protected land in the paramos.\nAn economy based mainly on mining can be extremely damaging to the life of a community. When mining is the main industry, the environment is destroyed and traditional farming \u2013 usually the domain of women \u2013 disappears, leaving women without employment opportunities.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ilsa-circle-300x149.jpg","caption":"ILSA (Institutio Latinoamericano para una Sociedad y un derecho Alternativos)\n","place":{"address":"Boyaca, Colombia","lat":5.454511000000000109366737888194620609283447265625,"lng":-73.3620030000000014069883036427199840545654296875,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJg6KQ-HWkaY4R95-8ZFsl4f8","state":"Boyaca","country":"Colombia","country_short":"CO"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/colombia\/"},{"title":"Bahamas and Caribbean","type":"emergency","content":"In September 2019, PWRDF released $20,000 to Episcopal Relief and Development to respond to Hurricane Dorian. Read more about parish responses here.\n","image":false,"caption":"","place":{"address":"Bahama Islands","lat":24.25,"lng":-76,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJmXwGuKy0MYkR_VXnZE8mgr4"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/bahamas-and-caribbean\/"},{"title":"Australia","type":"emergency","content":"In January 2020, PWRDF launched an emergency appeal for the Australian bushfires, raising more than $20,000.\n","image":false,"caption":"","place":{"address":"Melbourne

VIC,

Australia","lat":-37.81362759999999667570591554976999759674072265625,"lng":144.96305760000001328080543316900730133056640625,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJ90260rVG1moRkM2MIXVWBAQ","state":"Victoria","state_short":"VIC","country":"Australia","country_short":"AU"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/australia\/"},{"title":"Yemen","type":"emergency","content":"PWRDF is working with other members of Canadian Churches in Action to improve access to clean water for the Sada\u2019a Governorate in Yemen. The Governorate is one of the most affected areas in the country with people drinking from unprotected water sources, leading to a recent spike in waterborne diseases such as cholera. The project will fund the retrofit of five existing boreholes with solar panel water pumps as well as fund water testing and form Water Management Committees.\n","image":false,"caption":"Partner: Canadian Churches in Action | Project: Clean Water Access | # of Beneficiaries: 2,171 Households (15200 individuals)\n","place":{"address":"Saada, Yemen","lat":"16.9509413","lng":"43.747774299999946"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/yemen-2\/"},{"title":"Zambia","type":"development","content":"The Kasenga rural settlement is situated 51 kilometers east of Lusaka and has a population of 16,000 people. Currently the nearest health centre is 16 kilometers away from the settlement, a long way to go, especially for pregnant women who cannot afford to pay for a taxi. Women have given birth on the side of the road while travelling to the health clinic and some deaths have even occurred on the way to the health Facility. The Anglican Diocese of Lusaka has built a health facility in the settlement, however it cannot be opened until an incinerator is built because of requirements from the Ministry of Health. PWRDF has partnered with the Diocese to build the incinerator and open the health facility benefitting the entire population of the settlement.\n","image":false,"caption":"Partner: Anglican Diocese of Lusaka | Project: Construction of an Incinerator at Kasenga Rural Health Centre | Beneficiaries: 16,000\n","place":{"address":"Kasenga, Zambia","lat":"-15.8625","lng":"26.892222199999992"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/zambia\/"},{"title":"Zimbabwe","type":"development","content":"In the Chimanimani District of Zimbabwe, the population is made up of mostly smallholder farmers who deal with a very dry climate and infertile soil. The district’s poverty prevalence rate is higher than 75%; 40% of households are headed by women and have been identified as particularly vulnerable. PWRDF has partnered with TSURO in order to teach local farmers the skills they need to address their nutrition and help train them on best practice agriculture techniques, crop diversification, sustainable land and soil management. The project will target 3,000 households and 21 community health clubs.\n","image":false,"caption":"Partner: Towards Sustainable Use of Resources Organization (TSURO) | Project: Farmer Learning for Nutrition Security | # of Beneficiaries: 15,000+\n","place":{"address":"Chimanimani District, Chimanimani, Zimbabwe","lat":"-19.8","lng":"32.86666700000001"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/zimbabwe\/"},{"title":"Kenya","type":"development","content":"PWRDF is working with UDO to construct shallow water wells in nine communities in Makueni County in Southeast Kenya. The area received minimal rainfall and suffers from extremely hot temperatures, leading to an estimated 50% of households being food insecure. 64% of people in the community access water from unsafe sources.\nRead more …\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0998-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner: Utooni Development Organization (UDO) | \nProject: Shallow Water Well Digging | \n# of Beneficiaries: 1,620\n","place":{"address":"Makueni County, Kenya","lat":"-1.7864953","lng":"37.63110710000001"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/kenya-5\/"},{"title":"Bangladesh Rohingya Response","type":"emergency","content":"PWRDF contributed to the ACT Alliance appeal for Rohingya refugee crisis response in Bangladesh. From October 2017 through the end of May 2017, ACT members collectively reached out and provided support in the form of food aid to 2,880 households, 75,908 individuals were assisted with protection and psychosocial support. 5,000 households received NFI (non-food items) kits. 43,281 households received shelter upgrade kits. 166,157 Individuals received WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) services. 44 community leaders received risk awareness sessions to prepare for the monsoon season.\nRefugee Camps\nThis project responded to the immediate needs of the Rohingya refugees. 7 different campsites covering 257,645 individuals in phase 1 and 169,327 in phase 2 received food rations. The food basket included lentils, vegetable oil, sugar and salt. Rice was provided by the World Food Program, and that allowed CFGB to reach out to higher number of beneficiaries.\nRead more…\nPWRDF responds to Rohingya relief on behalf of Anglicans\n","image":false,"caption":"$20,000 to ACT

Alliance

\n$20,000 to World Renew\/Canadian Foodgrains Bank\n","place":{"address":"Cox\u0027s Bazar, Bangladesh","lat":"21.4272283","lng":"92.00580739999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/bangladesh-rohingya-response\/"},{"title":"Bangladesh","type":"emergency","content":"Bangladesh is the one of the most adversely affected regions on the planet by climate change. It is projected that, by 2020, 500 to 750 million people will be affected by lack of water caused by climate change around the world. With funds provided by PWRDF, four (each roughly 250 meters long) bamboo bindings (locally known as Chatka) were built to reduce effects of river erosion. Ten thousand mangrove saplings were planted as part of the effort to regenerate mangrove in coastal areas to improve coastal ecosystem and reduce vulnerabilities to cyclones. Thirty vulnerable women received indigenous goats to help them reduce their vulnerabilities to the effects of climate change.\n","image":false,"caption":"$28,050 to UBINIG\n","place":{"address":"Bangladesh","lat":"23.684994","lng":"90.35633099999995"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/bangladesh-2\/"},{"title":"Haiti","type":"emergency","content":"Hurricane Irma, a category 5 hurricane, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic, made landfall in Haiti\u00b4s northern coastline on September 7, 2017. 967 households in four municipalities: Ouanaminthe, Fort-Libert\u00e9, Caracol, and Ferrier were supported with 800 food kits, 400 hygiene kits including 400 water filters were distributed.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Haiti-Irma-1-300x169.jpg","caption":"$10,000 to ACT Alliance\n","place":{"address":"Ferrier, Haiti","lat":"19.6172198","lng":"-71.78152390000002"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/haiti-3\/"},{"title":"Palestinian Territories","type":"emergency","content":"Al Ahli hospital run by the Anglican diocese of Jerusalem provides free medical care for the vulnerable women, men, and children once a week, where the medical team provides medical examinations, diagnostic services, medicine, health education and free transport and light meal for each person. The designated funding was used to treat 220 beneficiaries among them 57% were women, 20% men and 23% children.\nRead more …\nFrom Huron to Gaza\nNeeds continue at Gaza Hospital\nPWRDF responds to Gaza crisis\n","image":false,"caption":"$5,530 to the Diocese of Jerusalem

(Al Ahli

Hospital)\n","place":{"address":"Gaza","lat":"31.5016951","lng":"34.46684449999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/palestinian-territories\/"},{"title":"South Sudan","type":"development","content":"As South Sudan marked the seventh anniversary of its independence from Sudan in July 2018,\u00a0six\u00a0community leaders began participating in a course to promote healing and reconciliation in the fragile state.\nThe three-week course was taught in Kigali, Rwanda, by Healing and Rebuilding Our Community (HROC). Born out of the trauma of the Rwanda genocide, HROC\u2019s goal is to \u201cpromote peace education to establish a future generation guided by nonviolent and harmonious values.\u201d\nPWRDF\u2019s association with HROC began in July 2016, when Rebecca Deng, a former lost girl of South Sudan now living in Winnipeg, and Atong Mayol Juuk, a woman from the Mother\u2019s Union in Bor, South Sudan,\u00a0completed a three-week HROC facilitator\u2019s workshop in Kigali.\nSoon after, Deng founded the Winnipeg Women\u2019s Resource Centre in Bor with the help of the Winnipeg South Sudanese community\u2019s Emmanuel Mission and its host church, St. Matthew\u2019s Anglican.\u00a0Since Deng and Juuk took the course, the Rev. Cathy Campbell and the team in Winnipeg have been keen to promote and share the HROC in South Sudan through PWRDF and its community partners on the ground.\nRead the whole story…\nPWRDF support South Sudanese peace builders in Rwanda\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/south-sudan-peace-makers-300x189.jpg","caption":"","place":{"address":"Bor,

South

Sudan","lat":"6.2132663","lng":"31.565542400000027"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/south-sudan-2\/"},{"title":"Kenya","type":"development","content":"Spring Ministries is a project that receives a designated donation from the Fleck Foundation. The funds are a contribution to an orphanage and aid children and widows whose families have been victims of HV\/AIDS. The project allows for outreach and sustainable empowerment of widows, educational support and shelter for orphans and vulnerable children attending primary and high schools with some in colleges and universities, and skills training and economic empowerment for adolescent girls and orphaned youths.\u00a0 The funds are used for orphans\u2019 basic needs such as clean water, fuel, food, sanitation materials, medicine, cloths, utility bills and medical checkups. The funding also covers school fees for children in primary and high school.\n","image":false,"caption":"Partner: Spring Ministries; \nBenefitted: 50 Children\n","place":{"address":"Kisumu, Kenya","lat":"-0.0917016","lng":"34.76795679999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/kenya-4\/"},{"title":"Burundi","type":"development","content":"Since 2008, the Diocese of Buy\u00e9 has had a partnership with the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton. Working with PWRDF\u2019s Connection program, the Diocese has provided financial and other support for development projects in Buy\u00e9. Currently the project is improving the pediatric ward at Buy\u00e9 hospital. The pediatric ward was built in the 1930s, however, the population has increased tremendously since then, overwhelming the capacity of the ward. The intent of this project is to build a pediatric ward with 2 big rooms so that children can be admitted comfortably and treated properly according to their individual needs.\n","image":false,"caption":"Partner: Diocese of Buy\u00e9\n","place":{"address":"HOPITAL DE BUYE, Mwumba, Burundi","lat":"-2.8626367","lng":"29.81933330000004"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/burundi-2\/"},{"title":"Yemen","type":"emergency","content":"Hunger, disease and bombs are devastating the lives of millions of people as the war in Yemen continues into its fourth year. About 8.4 million people in the country are at risk of starvation.\nThrough the new project, 1,100 vulnerable families will receive vouchers that allow the families some sense of normalcy in how they select food for their families, and also supports local food vendors and their families. The vouchers are redeemable for salt, sugar, flour, oil and beans.\nThe project is led by Canadian Foodgrains Bank member ADRA Canada, and supported financially by the Government of Canada and fellow Foodgrains Bank members Development and Peace-Caritas Canada, Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, World Renew and The United Church of Canada.\nRead more of

the

story\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Suraia-Abdullah-2-1-300x196.jpg","caption":"$50,000 of Canadian Foodgrains Bank equity to a food relief project to support vulnerable families suffering from extreme hunger\n","place":{"address":"Harib Al Qaramish, Yemen","lat":"15.483333","lng":"44.64999999999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/yemen\/"},{"title":"Democratic Republic of Congo","type":"development","content":"Maison Dorcas is part of the Panzi Foundation, established in 2008 by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege in South Kivu, where the rate of sexual and gender-based violence is the third highest among 25 provinces of the DRC.\nMaison Dorcas was created after the startling realization that 40% to 60% of women treated at Panzi Hospital are unable to return to their homes after medical treatment. This may be because of the extent of their injuries, risk of ongoing violence or the deep stigma attached to victims of sexual and gender-based violence.\nMaison Dorcas acts as a transit and safety house for victims of violence and those needing extended medical care. Women at Maison Dorcas continue their healing journey along with other vulnerable women from their communities in a setting where they are safe and heard. They actively participate in their own decision-making, empowering them and building up their self-esteem.\nRead the whole story\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6379-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner: Panzi House\n","place":{"address":"South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of

the

Congo","lat":"-3.011658","lng":"28.299435000000017"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/democratic-republic-of-congo\/"},{"title":"Alberta","type":"emergency","content":"In May 2016, fires ripped through Fort McMurray, Alberta, leading to the loss of homes and livelihoods. The original funds PWRDF gave to the Dioceses of Edmonton and Athabasca helped to resettle those displaced by the fires who fled with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The steering committee is now supporting recovering efforts including a rebuilding conference and providing Habitat for Humanity Wood Buffalo with a cash grant to support its rebuilding effort.\nSince then, the Diocese of Athabasca used the funding to pay for activities and expenses that respond to changes that took place because of the wildfire emergency and to ensure that these activities are broadly supportive of the affected community as a whole. All Saints Parish, in cooperation with YMCA Wellness Program and with support from the Canadian Mental Health Association – Wood Buffalo Region set up a community garden behind All Saints Parish.\nRead More:\n\u201cThis is Ministry\u201d- the Anglican response to the Fort McMurray fires \nSummer camps in Fort McMurray support recovery \nReflecting on Fort McMurray \nFORT MAC UPDATE: Helping renters and homeowners get home \nFort McMurray two years on\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/garden-after-1-300x200.jpg","caption":"$26,184 to Diocese of Athabasca (2018) \n$40,200 to St. Thomas\u2019s and All Saint\u2019s Anglican Church, Fort McMurray (2018) \n$6,000 to Diocese of Edmonton \n$15,000 to Diocese of Athabasca \n$88,978 to The TMN Anglican Fire Relief Steering Committee in Fort McMurray\n","place":{"address":"Fort McMurray, AB, Canada","lat":"56.72637959999999","lng":"-111.38034070000003"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/alberta-3\/"},{"title":"British Columbia","type":"emergency","content":"In July 2017, a lightning storm sparked wildfires in British Columbia that led to the evacuation of approximately 14,000 people.\u00a0PWRDF responded immediately with a grant that was used for food vouchers, toiletries, bus fare, clothing etc. PWRDF funding has also helped keep community centres open like the Stemete7uw\u2019I Friendship Centre at St. Timothy\u2019s Anglican Church that has been offering support in the wake of the fires.\nIn 2018 the PWRDF grant continued to support activities of The Friendship Centre. After the wildfires, monthly dinners hosted by the centre doubled in size, largely due to the mental, social and emotional trauma that the fires caused. The funding was also used by the Cathedral in Kamloops made space for people to gather, have a coffee, a snack, talk, and relax in smoke free air in a city that was inundated with smoke. The parishes in Prince George responded similarly. Expenses also included toiletries. Recognizing the increased risk of suicide, two Anglican Churches, St. Peter\u2019s Williams Lake and St. Timothy\u2019s 100 Mile House, received $5,000 each for suicide prevention training in their communities. ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is a two-day course that educates community leaders and those in helping professions. Read More:\nSuicide prevention programs designed for post-wildfire stress \nRelief funds keep B.C. Friendship Centre open after wildfire \nPWRDF sending funds to Territory of the People to aid BC wildfire

\nBC Wildfire

Update\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0864-sign-Charles-300x225.jpg","caption":"$39,000 to the Diocese of\u00a0Territory of the People (2017) \n$21,000 to the Diocese of Territory of the People (2018)\n","place":{"address":"100 Mile House, BC, Canada","lat":"51.64397049999999","lng":"-121.29500969999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/british-columbia\/"},{"title":"Uganda","type":"development","content":"St. Jude\u2019s mission is to support poverty eradication efforts of smallholder farmers through promotion of integrated organic farming for sustainable livelihoods. The main goal of project is for vulnerable women, particularly widows, to become fully involved in enterprises that can generate both food and income to improve their livelihoods. Participants learn in sustainable farming practices, crop production, agro-enterprises, nutrition awareness, and soil and water conservation technologies, (compositing, mulching, water retention ditches and agro-forestry).\u00a0By the end of March 2018, 90% of the 210 female beneficiaries were able to afford two nutritious meals a day, a shift from one uncertain meal at the beginning of the project.\u00a0The project has helped beneficiaries to double their overall agricultural productivity. The participants have also adopted soil and water conservation practices and planting of early maturing food crops to address immediate food deficits.\u00a0Over 60% of the beneficiaries produced\u00a0food surpluses.\nRead more …\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2701-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner: St. Jude Family Project \nProject: Food Security and Livelihood Improvement Project \n# beneficiaries: 210 families\n","place":{"address":"Masaka, Uganda","lat":"-0.3267383","lng":"31.75374039999997"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/uganda-2\/"},{"title":"Guatemala","type":"development","content":"During the worst periods of the civil war in Guatemala in the 1970s and early 1980s, thousands of people fled from rural Indigenous communities to the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche and Quintana Roo, and lived there in refugee camps. For over a decade these camps became home and received the support of the international community including PWRDF. Many of the women living there took advantage of community development, literacy, health and leadership training programs and also organized themselves. In the \u201890s, women and their families returning to the St. Domingo Suchitepequez in the southeast re-established MADRE TIERRA, the women grassroots organization born in exile.\nThe southwestern pacific coast is one of the richest Guatemalan agricultural areas. Sugar cane, African palm, and banana and pineapple plantations -in the hands of very few landowners, proliferate. However within these, poverty is alive together with a food security crisis. Most men work in the farms, women and children too but their work is not paid as equal, as they are seen as helpers only. Agro-industry, the lack of resources, particularly of land, makes it almost impossible, in particular for women, to produce food. At national level, only 6% of women who produce food are owners or co-owners of land. MT has approximately 342 members from 7 rural communities with the mission to \u201cpromote changes in the situation and position of rural, uprooted women, with a gender and intercultural focus, at local, municipal, regional and national levels.\u201d\u00a0 A women\u2019s coordinating committee oversees the work in the areas of social participation and non-violence, women\u2019s health, economic productivity and sustainability, and education. Women younger than 35 years of age make up 40% of members of each area committee. MT advances its community and leadership program despite the isolation, the scarcity of resources, the workload -as women are in charge of domestic, farm as well as volunteer community work, and the fact of leaving in a \u201cRisk Zone\u201d, vulnerable to both rainy and dry seasons.\nIn 2018, year 3 of the PWRDF-approved project, focused on capacity building. MT plans to continue developing strategies and tools for consultation and for identifying organizational gaps and assets, establishing and inventory of organizational resources, conducting a base line, documenting achievements, developing a presence in social media and improving on PM&E.\nRead more: Water for Guatemala\nWatch: The 5 As of Food Security: Availability\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/May-24-018-MT-Ana-M-Nacho-Engracia-D-Perez-y-Francisca-Garcia-Velazques-enjoy-the-meeting-IMG_7643-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner:

Madre Tierra

\nProject: Women\u2019s Health, Economic Productivity and Sustainability Program \n# of people benefitted: 365\n","place":{"address":"Guatemala","lat":"15.783471","lng":"-90.23075899999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/guatemala-2\/"},{"title":"Rwanda","type":"development","content":"Founded in 1987, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair. Since 2005 Partners in Health, known locally as Inshuti Mu Buzima, has been assisting the government of Rwanda to bring health care to three districts that previously had some of the country\u2019s worst health outcomes.\nPIH provides services through three hospitals, 42 health centres, and some 7,200 community health workers in Burera, Kayonza, and Kirehe districts. Additionally, PIH has established Butaro District Hospital, and adjoining Cancer Centre of Excellence, and the University of Global Health Equity. In Rwanda, along with PWRDF\u2019s All Mothers and Children Count project new materials and job aids have been distributed for healthcare workers to better support patient education. Fifteen health providers working in maternity care services from the three district hospitals participated in a training session on comprehensive emergency obstetrics and neonatal care. The project has helped increase the capacities of healthcare workers and help reduce the maternal mortality rate and increase the number of births attended by a skilled birth attendant.\nRead more:\n \n * Healthy births in Rwanda through doctor training\n * Rwanda social workers receive nutrition training to fight malnutrition\n * PWRDF and DFATD begin 5-year $17.6 million maternal newborn and child health program\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_5509-225x300.jpg","caption":"Partner: Partners in Health Rwanda; \n# of people benefitted: 421,433\n","place":{"address":"Rwanda","lat":"-1.940278","lng":"29.873887999999965"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/rwanda\/"},{"title":"Tanzania","type":"development","content":"In Tanzania, walking long distances for women (including pregnant women), female youth and children to and from unclean water points of between 4 and 8 km have decreased. In 2017, PWRDF\u2019s AMCC Project drilled 25 boreholes in 20 communities and the walking distance to clean and safe water has been reduced to less than 1 km. 8,288 households (33,150 community members) are benefiting from the 25 boreholes. The importance of vaccinating infants, children under five and pregnant women were discussed with women and men during maternal, newborn and child health meetings, home education visits and education sessions. Due to the vaccination awareness raising and mobilization, 5,247 pregnant women and 78,595 children under five received vaccinations recommended by the World Health Organization. The project worked with 20,566 small farmers in Tanzania to improve their agricultural practices in a more sustainable way. They also received a total of 16,408 kg of seeds (maize, groundnuts, pigeon pea, green peas, and cowpeas). They also received 2,200 kg of tomato, cabbage, okra, amaranth, onion and sweet peppers, passion fruit and pawpaw seeds. Beneficiaries also received dairy cows, milking goats, chickens, ducks, guinea fowl, rabbits and pigs.\nWatch\n\nRead more:\n \n * Diocese of Masasi impresses Canadian government\n * Canadians Raise $54 000 for Goats\n * PWRDF Provides Water Supplies to 50 000 People in Tanzania\n * Bicycles improve healthcare delivery in Tanzania\n * PWRDF and Diocese of Masasi: a 20-year success story\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TANZ-cover-shot-Anna-Saidi-300x169.jpg","caption":"Partner \u2013 Diocese of Masasi \n# people benefitted: 33,150\n","place":{"address":"Masasi, Tanzania","lat":"-10.7323902","lng":"38.810085500000014"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/tanzania\/"},{"title":"Uganda","type":"development","content":"The project targets marginalized people in rural Uganda, especially women and children. ARUWE focuses on food security, nutrition and income generation; rights awareness and leadership education; water, hygiene and sanitation, reproductive health and HIV\/AIDS; environmental protection and conservation and promoting access to quality education. The overall goal of the Women’s Sustainable Livelihood Improvement Project is to increase agricultural productivity and access to markets among 250 female farmers to increase food security and incomes. Results at the end of the fiscal year 2017-18\u00a0 included: 15 farmer village savings groups were establish and began saving, accumulating UGX 36,377,400 (approx CAD 12,846); 542,942 kilograms of maize, beans and soy harvested;\u00a0 average income from maize production UGX 877,044 (approx CAD 310) per farmer; average income from bean production UGX 278,155 (approx CAD 98) per farmer; 40 women were leading their groups through record keeping, and mobilizing members; 9 women acquired their own plots of land;\u00a0 43 women acquired solar energy for lighting and power.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Photo-of-Kasiita-and-siblings-in-their-cabbage-garden-Story-1-300x169.jpg","caption":"Partner:

ARUWE

\nProject: Food security and livelihood \n# people affected: 250\n","place":{"address":"Rakai, Uganda","lat":"-0.7069135","lng":"31.537000300000045"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/uganda\/"},{"title":"Thai-Burmese Border","type":"development","content":"Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education (DARE) Network provides addiction prevention and treatment services for Burmese refugees who fled conflict and persecution and settled in Border Area refugee camps in the Thailand-Burma border. DARE provided prevention education to 20,798 students and teachers. Students began expressing more of their fears, especially in regards to drug dealers. The project engaged with families to provide information on substance abuse and treatment. 7,000 home visits were conducted reaching 14,343 directly and 1,390 through the patients receiving services. DARE has seen a reduction in domestic violence and an increase in women and youth seeking treatment.\nRead more:\n \n * Pioneering addiction program changing Burmese refugees\u2019 lives\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DARE-manual-option-TBC-e1544215380799-300x204.jpg","caption":"Partner:

DARE\u2028

\nProject: addiction recovery \n\u2028# of people serving: 20,798\n","place":{"address":"Kayin

State, Myanmar

(Burma)","lat":"16.9459346","lng":"97.95928630000003"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/thai-burmese-border\/"},{"title":"South Sudan","type":"emergency","content":"In February 2017, the Government of South Sudan declared famine in parts of South Sudan. About 4.9 million people (42% of the population) were estimated to be severely food insecure and this was projected to increase to 5.5 million people, (47% of the national population) at the height of the 2017 lean season in July. PWRDF funding was used by Finn Church Aid in Northern Fangak which provided cash grants to 1,000 vulnerable households in February 2018. 500 households were also supported with seeds, tools and trainings to improve food production to assist them cope-up with food insecurity through agriculture-based livelihood activities in Fangak County.\nRead more about work in South Sudan\nPWRDF leading $375K food assistance project in South Sudan\nPWRDF donor enables food distribution project in South Sudan\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/34821721683_38352c090e_k-300x200.jpg","caption":"$357,628 to ADRA South Sudan\/Canadian Foodgrains Bank \n$20,065 to KAIROS\/South Sudan Council of Churches \n$25,000 to South Sudanese Development and Relief Agency (SSUDRA) \n$29,575 to Winnipeg Women\u2019s Resource Center in Bor\/United for Peace and Community Development, Kenya\n","place":{"address":"Kapoeta,

South

Sudan","lat":"4.771316199999999","lng":"33.59239409999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/south-sudan\/"},{"title":"Rwanda","type":"development","content":"Vunga is an isolated, impoverished, extremely rural village with a population of 9,521 people. The majority (99%) of people make a living from traditional agricultural practices. The vocational school, inaugurated in 2007 with support from the Rwanda Education and Discovery Committee (READ) of Saint John\u2019s Anglican Church in Port Rowan, offers theoretical and practical courses in hairdressing, tailoring, welding, carpentry and construction. In 2017, a total of 73 students (35 female\/38 male) attended training. Of these, 30 sponsored students had a meal a day, assistance for job apprenticeship placement and field training. Children preparing for a better future and becoming financially self-sufficient improved the wellbeing of 150 family members.\nRead more:\n \n * Connections: A Canadian parish and

a Rwandan

project\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vunga-school-300x200.jpg","caption":"Partner: Shyogwe Diocese of Rwanda \nProject: Vunga Vocational Training Centre \n# of people serving: 73students per year\n","place":{"address":"Vunga, Rwanda","lat":"-1.6926461","lng":"29.63470380000001"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/rwanda-3\/"},{"title":"Qu\u00e9bec","type":"development","content":"Kanien\u2019kehaka Onkwaw\u00e9n:na Raotitiohkwa Language and Cultural Centre (KORLCC) works to preserve and strengthen the Kanien\u2019k\u00e9ha language and increase community access to culturally relevant programs and cultural workshops that promote, reinforce and increase traditions.\nIn 2016, KORLCC produced Season 12 of Tota Tanon Ohkwari, an Indigenous children\u2019s program (a puppet show broadcasted on the local cable network to a community of 8,000 people) that is comprised of four 25-minute episodes and one 30-minute episode containing multiple cultural teachings.\nAdditionally, 15 live puppet shows were performed for school age children in the Kanien\u2019keha community that focused on healthy eating habits, planting a home garden, and the prevention of bullying. Two cultural workshop sessions (each 10 weeks in duration) were held for community members to learn\/acquire and\/or strengthen their artistic bead working skills and cornhusk moccasin making.\nIn addition to class time, homework assignments and school projects, the students and instructors take part in monthly community activities and ceremonies, Confederacy Sings, live talk shows, Elder visits, socials, workshops and presentations on traditional teachings. At the end of Year 1, Oral Proficiency Interviews indicated that many students advanced from a novice to an intermediate level in oral comprehension; 16 students graduated. Almost 500 people (adults and youth) benefitted directly from the KORLCC programs and another 2,500 were estimated to be indirect beneficiaries.\nRead more about the program here:\n \n * Teaching language and culture with puppets\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KORLCC-e1508030959847-300x258.jpg","caption":"Partner: Kanien\u2019kehaka Onkwaw\u00e9n:na Raotitiohkwa Language and Cultural

Centre (KORLCC)

\nProject: Kanien\u2019k\u00e9ha language preservation \n# of people benefitted: 11,000\n","place":{"address":"Qu\u00e9bec, Canada","lat":"46.8138783","lng":"-71.2079809"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/quebec\/"},{"title":"Mozambique","type":"development","content":"CCM Pemba is a microfinance cooperative for low income women in the city of Pemba in the province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. CCM Pemba is an alternative savings and lending credit-union institution at the service of their membership to counter the high interest rates of almost 25% of traditional banks in Mozambique. The funding allowed the organization to make 452 loans to low-income women. Women set up a number of diverse business including chicken rearing, catering and cake decoration, convenience stores, hair-dressing salons, restaurants, production of animal feed, food trucks, construction materials stores. Through the Ride for Refuge initiative, CCM Pemba was identified as one of the recipients of funds raised by PWRDF riders.\nRead more:\n \n * Ride for Refuge beneficiary gives women a chance to shine\n * PWRDF strikes a match for entrepreneurial women\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_26831-e1519840388302-282x300.jpg","caption":"Partner:

CCM Pemba

\nProject: microfinance \n# of people serving: 452\n","place":{"address":"Pemba, Mozambique","lat":"-12.9732026","lng":"40.51780140000005"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/mozambique\/"},{"title":"Mozambique","type":"development","content":"EHALE works to improve maternal, newborn and child health infrastructure, and increase awareness among community leaders, women and men on the importance of delivering in health facilities. Women, men, female youth and male youth participated in 1,872 education sessions on antenatal care, postnatal care, the importance of institutionalized births, family planning, nutrition, malaria, acute respiratory infection, and diarrhea prevention. In addition, community-based workers carried out 34,408 home visits. The project has also distributed solar suitcases, which enable health providers to deliver babies safely during nighttime.\nRead more about the program here:\n \n * PWRDF receives $500,000 donation from the Diocese of Toronto\n * The impact of community theatre\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mozambique-300x217.jpg","caption":"Partner:

EHALE

\nProject: All Mothers & Children Count \n# of people benefitted: 135,629\n","place":{"address":"Nampula, Mozambique","lat":"-15.1266347","lng":"39.268716100000006"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/mozambique-2\/"},{"title":"Mexico","type":"development","content":"Kinal Antzetik Distrito Federal, A.C. (Mexico) is one of the partners of the Indigenous Maternal Health and Midwifery Program. During the fiscal year they worked closely with the two other partners. They took the lead in setting up the Reference Group with the other two partners (Ryerson and Qhirapaq) to ensure ongoing consultation has they coordinate project activities. They have organized a number of videoconferences on best practices of Indigenous midwifery. Developed the theoretical framework for Mexico and are in the process of carrying out of developing a questionnaire that will be used by the three countries in a series of interviews with Indigenous midwives in all project countries.\nRead more:\n \n * Supporting midwives, saving mothers\n * PWRDF monitoring recovery efforts in Mexico\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4096-225x300.jpg","caption":"Partner: Kinal Antzetik Distrito Federal \nProject: Indigenous Maternal Health and Midwifery Program \n$39,830\n","place":{"address":"M\u00e9xico","lat":"23.634501","lng":"-102.55278399999997"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/mexico\/"},{"title":"Kenya","type":"development","content":"PWRDF has partnered with the National Council of Churches who has worked in Kakuma refugee camp since 1994. They deliver services and education on reproductive health care, and HIV and AIDs prevention. They also carry out projects to improve the livelihood of refugee communities, such as food production and income generation for youth. The refugee camp now has a population of 182,000 refugees, and the number still increasing due to regional conflicts and famine affecting the region. The project has led focus groups with women and helped ensure they are attending antenatal care visits. The project has also helped women generate income by making and selling peanut butter.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/017-NCCK-Kakuma-Youth-and-reproductive-health-awareness-DSCN0072-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner: National Council of Churches of Kenya \nProject: Kakuma Refugee Camp \n# of people serving: 17,108\n","place":{"address":"Kakuma, Kenya","lat":"3.7167637","lng":"34.85689819999993"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/kenya-2\/"},{"title":"Kenya","type":"development","content":"ECLOF Kenya is an expanding, locally rooted, mid-tier microfinance institution concentrating on rural and peri-urban areas in Kenya. Founded in 1994, it has served poor and low-income entrepreneurs and farmers in Kenya for over 20 years. Besides loans, ECLOF Kenya provides clients with access to micro insurance for health or agricultural purposes, and non-financial services and training. ECLOF Kenya is currently transforming to a socially motivated deposit-taking microfinance institution and scaling its work to be both broader and deeper, i.e. reaching clients at the lowest income segments and in more remote areas. ECLOF carried out \u201ctraining of trainers\u201d initiative and designed training programs and teaching material. 3,944 microfinance solidarity group leaders are now trainers on financial literacy. Group leaders trained an average of 8 members per group resulting in enhanced customer retention, improved product uptake, repeat borrowing, and improved portfolio quality and staff productivity. The direct and indirect number of beneficiaries was

estimated at

33,000.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/017-Human-Relations-Team-ECLOF-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner:

ECLOF Kenya

\nProject: microfinance \n# of people serving: 33,000\n","place":{"address":"Nairobi, Kenya","lat":"-1.2920659","lng":"36.82194619999996"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/kenya\/"},{"title":"Haiti","type":"development","content":"For more than 25 years, Partners In Health (PIH\/ZL) has worked to improve women\u2019s quality of life by providing comprehensive, community-based health care in rural Haiti where, in most cases, medical services were not previously available. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a serious health and human rights issue in Haiti. Although women are known as the central pillars of the family and community, they are the most at-risk members. Access to care, health, psychosocial and legal remedies is limited by lack of resources, political will, economic insecurity, and gender power imbalances.\u00a0In 2017, the project tracked 896 cases across the six project sites of Hinche, Mirebalais, Belladere, Verrettes, Petite-Riviere and St-Marc. Of all cases reported, about half were classified as either physical abuse or psychological abuse, followed by sexual abuse, and the remainder 50% were sexual violence. From July 2017 \u2013 Jan. 2018, the project saw 349 cases of gender-based violence, including 162 categorized as sexual violence, 186 cases of physical violence and one case of psychological violence. Seventy-seven cases of sexual violence were committed against girls 15

and

younger.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/GBV-Haiti-300x169.jpg","caption":"Partner: Partners in Health Haiti \n\u2028Project: Gender-based violence prevention\u2028 \n# of people serving: approx. 6,000, with 896 cases of GBV addressed\n","place":{"address":"Haiti","lat":"18.971187","lng":"-72.285215"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/haiti\/"},{"title":"Guatemala","type":"development","content":"Asociacion Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas (IXMUCANE) is a women\u2019s association that runs Women\u2019s Rights and Health Program for women living in Pet\u00e9n, the northern most region in Guatemala. It has 528 members and was set up by women who fled the civil war in Guatemala in the 1980s and returned in the mid 1990s. The majority of the beneficiaries are also returnees. IXMUCANE focuses on improving women and youth knowledge about sexual and reproductive health; educating and empowering women on their rights; and preventing discrimination, exclusion, and violence against women. With funds provided by PWRDF, IXMUCANE carried out a members\u2019 consultation to improve their capacity to develop and implement a health education campaign. As a result of the consultation, a team of four women were selected and trained on HIV pre and post counselling and testing.\nThe focus of the project is to empower rural Indigenous women to assert their voices to rights to education, sexual and reproductive health, end violence against women, and prevent discrimination. The project has reached 1,200 people in 9 rural communities across Pet\u00e9n. Women were trained on several areas to help them to become self-sufficient and able to apply for funding from different donors. This is part of an exit-strategy developed by IXMUCANE with guidance from PWRDF.\nRead more about the program here:\n \n * The story of

Ixmucane in

Guatemala\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Lara-SAM_1727-Ixmucane-smiling-coordinating-team-top-Concepcion-Nancy-Carmen-bottom-Eulalia-tersa-and-Mirsa-300x228.jpg","caption":"Partner: Asociacion Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas (IXMUCANE) \nProject: Women\u2019s Rights and Health Program \n# of people benefitted: 1,200\n","place":{"address":"Santa Elena, Guatemala","lat":"16.9181251","lng":"-89.8926065"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/guatemala\/"},{"title":"Ethiopia","type":"emergency","content":"In 2017, there were 285,809 South Sudanese refugees are in refugee camps in Ethiopia. PWRDF allocated $38,600 to improve water access at two refugee camps and two transit centres in the Gambella region serving 750 refugees a week. The project implementer has experience distributing water, sanitation and hygiene programs in the region and is partnering with a local NGO, Action for the Needy in Ethiopia.\nIn 2018 PWRDF allocated another $30,000 to provide WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) support to South Sudanese refugees in Gambella region of Ethiopia. A total of 800 beneficiaries received 10L water storage containers, of which 261 were new arrivals, 292 were refugees with disabilities (visual impairment in particular), and 247 belonged to vulnerable groups, such as elderly and members of large families (greater than five). Six reservoirs were installed in Ngunyyiel and Terkidi Camps, serving a total of 16,015 refugees.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/8005812472_689558d8f6_b-300x200.jpg","caption":"$30,000 to International Orthodox Christian Charities\n","place":{"address":"Ethiopia","lat":"9.145000000000001","lng":"40.48967300000004"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/ethiopia\/"},{"title":"El Salvador","type":"development","content":"The Fundacion Cristosal\u2019s Human Rights and Community Development Program aims to strengthen the capacity of five community organizations to run integrated development projects. The program promoted awareness and carried out training on human rights for local community members; almost 2,000 benefitted from the program. Cristosal also provided legal advice to community members and carried out negotiations on behalf of a community group with a local power company to connect individual homes to the power and water grids. Cristosal was successful in finding a positive and peaceful resolution for existing individual debts of community members. Cristosal carried out advocacy and negotiations with the Ministry of Public Works and one municipality regarding the completion of the construction of phase one of a road project. The communities have setup a network that carries out discussions with governmental and non-governmental institutions for cooperation on development initiatives. It is expected that through the network, community members will have their voices heard in the discussions about the relocation of affected communities.\nRead more:\n \n * PWRDF and Fundacion Cristosal Enter Connections Partnership\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Chrisosal-300x225.jpg","caption":"artner: Fundacion Cristosal\u2028 \nProject: Human Rights and Community Development Program\u2028 \n# of people benefitted: 2,000\n","place":{"address":"El Salvador","lat":"13.794185","lng":"-88.89652999999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/el-salvador\/"},{"title":"El Salvador","type":"development","content":"CoCoSI (Committee Against AIDS) is made up of professionals in HIV\/STIs and Gender Based Violence who develop workshops for women, children, adolescents and teens, people living with HIV, prison populations, and the public at large. CoCoSI focuses on HIV prevention, community education against bullying, hate crimes, and reduction in violence against women and LGBTI people. It also aims to reduce adolescent pregnancies in the Department of Caba\u00f1as by carrying out reproductive and sexual health education. The CoCoSI radio program broadcasts messages addressing issues of HIV, adolescent reproductive and sexual health, violence against women and has reached 6,000 listeners. Workshops on gender identity and gender-based violence, HIV prevention, adolescent reproductive and sexual health education, and dating violence in the schools have reached 800 young people. About 60 women participated in workshops focused on the prevention of HIV\/STIs, anti-discrimination laws, family planning and processes to denounce abuse and domestic violence. In addition, 58 people from the two local self-support groups and the Sensuntepeque Prison attended workshops on sex education, individual and oral hygiene.\nRead more:\n \n * Young Leaders Thrive Admidst Opposition\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CoCoSi-300x199.jpg","caption":"Partner: CoCoSI (Committee Against AIDS) \nProject: health and gender-based violence education \n# of people serving: 6,900\n","place":{"address":"El Salvador","lat":"13.794185","lng":"-88.89652999999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/el-salvador-2\/"},{"title":"Cuba","type":"development","content":"The Sustainable Development Program of the Cuban Council of Churches (CCC) aims to raise agricultural yield, reduce rural poverty, improve nutrition, improve resilience to climate change, foster gender empowerment, and break dependency on imported food and inputs. The program improved the food security and nutrition for 290 people. Previously, unproductive plots were farmed and small backyards were utilized to produce grains, vegetables and breed small animals (chicken, rabbits, pigs, sheep and goats). Four additional water wells were built and 13 families have access to clean potable water and water to irrigate their small gardens.\nRead more here:\n \n * It\u2019s what we do: Cuban churches ideal development partners\n\n","image":false,"caption":"Partner: Cuban Council of

Churches\u2028

\nProject: Sustainable Development Program \n\u2028# of people benefitted: 290\n","place":{"address":"Cuba","lat":"21.521757","lng":"-77.78116699999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/cuba\/"},{"title":"Cuba","type":"development","content":"To date, 21 new community leaders (11 women and 10 men) have completed their training in project design successfully. This is in addition to 42 women and 58 men lay leaders who participated in workshops to increase their knowledge and improve skills in food production and artisanal activities such as growing vegetables, raising small animals organically\/ecologically and making clothes. Community vegetable gardens contributed to the improvement of community members\u2019 diets and health. The project also provided technical support and seed funding to 18 community-based community initiatives.\nWatch: The 5 As of Food Security: Accessibility\u00a0\nIt\u2019s what we do: Cuban church ideal development partners\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cuba-ITABO-smaller-300x199.jpg","caption":"Partner: Cuban Council of Churches \nProject: Sustainable Development Program \n# of people benefitted: 290\n","place":{"address":"Cuba","lat":"21.521757","lng":"-77.78116699999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/cuba-2\/"},{"title":"Cuba","type":"development","content":"To date, 21 new community leaders (11 women and 10 men) have completed their training in project design successfully. This is in addition to 42 women and 58 men lay leaders who participated in workshops to increase their knowledge and improve skills in food production and artisanal activities such as growing vegetables, raising small animals organically\/ecologically and making clothes.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cuba-2-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner: Episcopal Church of Cuba \nProject: Integrated Development Project \n# of people benefitted: 620\n","place":{"address":"Sancti Spiritus, Cuba","lat":"21.9938214","lng":"-79.47038850000001"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/cuba-3\/"},{"title":"Ontario","type":"development","content":"The Aboriginal Initiatives from Ryerson University is co-implementing the Indigenous Maternal Health and Midwifery Program in partnership with Kinal Antzetik in Mexico and CHIRAPAQ in Peru. During the first year of project implementation, they carried out a research about the midwifery role in the welfare of Indigenous communities in Canada. They have also developed implementing strategies for Indigenous maternal health in the three countries.\nThey have also developed training methodologies to train new indigenous midwives and promote recognition of knowledge and practices of indigenous and traditional midwives for the benefits of Indigenous communities. They are presently developing strategies on how to promote indigenous midwifery as a viable, available, efficient and legitimate response to the needs on intercultural maternal health. They received and reviewing three examples of Indigenous midwifery curriculum developed by and for Indigenous learners including: Inuit midwives in Nunavik, original curriculum from Manitoba\u2019s Aboriginal Midwifery program, and two key informant interviews regarding curriculum at Six Nations midwifery centre in Ontario.\nThese documents and interviews are essential to begin the work of establishing an indigenous midwifery core curriculum. They have also established connections with the NACM (National Aboriginal Council of Midwives), Toronto Birth Centre, AOM (Association of Ontario Midwives) to contribute to the curriculum development.\nRead more:\n \n * Protecting the right to a cultural birth\n\nWatch:\n \n * Cheryllee Bourgeois speaking at the UN\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Image-for-Toronto-map-blurb-300x216.jpg","caption":"Partner: Aboriginal Initiatives Ryerson University \n\u2028Project:\u00a0Indigenous Maternal Health and Midwifery Program\n","place":{"address":"Toronto, ON, Canada","lat":"43.653226","lng":"-79.38318429999998"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/ontario-2\/"},{"title":"Burundi","type":"development","content":"Founded in 2005, Village Health Works is grassroots, organization that provides quality, compassionate, dignified health care in rural Burundi. With funding from PWRDF village health works has continued to operate ambulances, expand the maternal and newborn health clinic and facilitate educational sessions which emphasize the importance of women, female youth, pregnant and lactating women, infants and children accessing health services. The clinic saw an increase in the number of patients (especially women and children under 5) visiting the clinic, averaging over 150 per day. 94.22% of births were attended by skilled birth attendants and 99.38% of mothers and newborns received postnatal care within two days of birth. 76.85% of pregnant women attended at least four antenatal care sessions. This positive result was partly attributed to the ultrasound machines purchased by the project.\nRead more about the program here:\n \n * How improved access to prenatal care is saving lives in Burundi\n * HIV\/AIDS monitoring tool gratefully received in Burundi\n * Women empowering

women in

Burundi\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Virginie-and-food-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner: Village Health Works \nProject: All Mothers & Children Count \n# of people benefitted: 554,498\n","place":{"address":"Burundi","lat":"-3.373056","lng":"29.91888599999993"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/burundi\/"},{"title":"British Columbia","type":"development","content":"The Nuu-chah-nulth (NCN) Language & Culture Program (NLCP) supports community initiatives that contribute to the preservation of the NCN language and culture. A total of 94 resource items have been developed as a direct result of NLCP funding. The “I want to learn the Nuu-chah-nulth Language\u201d Facebook page has 1,300 members. There are 600 active adult learners of the Nuu-chah-nulth language and more than 12,500 indirect learners. The resources developed through the project have been celebrated and showcased by the 14 communities. Most of the previously funded projects have captured and documented the language and culture for future generations to share. Many of the CDs, DVDs and books are preserving the NCN language and enhancing cultural knowledge and retention. 75% of the projects funded to date are built upon previous preservation initiatives.\nIn 2017 a program designed to provide youth the opportunity to break these cycles and become self-sufficient has been implemented by the NEDC (Nuu-chah-nutlh Economic Development Corporation from BC), and supported by PWRDF. The Indigenous Youth Business Strategy program provides access to a loan fund to help Indigenous youth start a business, experience success, create job(s) and develop wealth.\nRead more about our work with NEDC:\n \n * Teaching Parents by Teaching Their Children\n\n","image":false,"caption":"Partner: Nuu-chah-nulth Economic Development Corporation (NEDC) \n\u2028Project: Nuu-chah-nulth Language & Culture Program

(NLCP)\u2028

\n# of people benefitted: 13,100\n","place":{"address":"British

Columbia,

Canada","lat":"53.7266683","lng":"-127.64762050000002"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/british-columbia-2\/"},{"title":"Alberta","type":"development","content":"The First Nation Adult & Higher Education Consortium (FNAHEC) develops courses on Cosmology, Blackfoot Epistemology and other Blackfoot Knowledge for online delivery. These courses contribute to understanding among the Blackfoot people of their origins, culture, and language and developing positive self-concepts. Blackfoot knowledge is not readily available except through local oral histories facilitated by instructors who are called Knowledge Keepers and ceremonial bundle holders. FNAHEC offered workshop to 1,100 people, who shared their knowledge and information with more than 2,200 indirect beneficiaries. A cumulative 7,800 people have been exposed to the teachings of FNAHEC. The students who took the courses, or are currently enrolled in onsite courses, expressed their gratitude for learning about their history and regained some of the traditional Indigenous knowledge. A reawakening is happening amongst Blackfoot youth. For instance, some are joining cultural and ceremonial groups and ensuring the revival of these ancestral traditions for, by and with their communities. A key activity for FNAHEC was organizing agreements to transfer the credits earned through these courses to mainstream institutions. Thus far, 17 of these courses are transferable to Athabasca University and the University of Calgary. An additional six courses are near completion and will be piloted in the 2016-2017 school year and subsequently transfer requests will be submitted. The local community and regional government educational authorities have recognized FNAHEC as a point of reference in terms of Indigenous language, curriculum development and traditional knowledge.\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/blackfoot-300x225.jpg","caption":"Partner: The First Nation Adult & Higher Education Consortium (FNAHEC) \nProject: online course delivery \n# of people benefitted: 7,800\n","place":{"address":"Alberta, Canada","lat":"53.9332706","lng":"-116.5765035"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/alberta-2\/"},{"title":"Peru","type":"development","content":"CHIRAPAQ Centro de Culturas Indigenas de Peru (Peru) is the third partner of the Indigenous Maternal Health and Midwifery Program. They took leadership in developing ESKE (Emergency Skills Knowledge) workshop \u2013 a hands-on learning document to be presented at the International Conference of Midwifery in Toronto. Eight Indigenous midwives from Central and South America participated on a exchange training\/learning session where discussions evolved around emergency prevention. The training was the first step in developing a culturally appropriate emergency skills program to be shared by the three organizations.\nRead more:\n \n * PWRDF accompanies Indigenous midwives to the UN\n * Protecting the right to a cultural birth\n\n","image":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4094-300x226.jpg","caption":"Partner: CHIRAPAQ (Centro de Culturas Indigenas de Peru) \n\u2028Project: Indigenous Maternal Health & Midwifery\n","place":{"address":"Peru","lat":"-9.189966999999998","lng":"-75.015152"},"url":"https:\/\/pwrdf.org\/our-work\/peru\/"}]" style="position: relative; overflow: hidden;">

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