Alongside Hope

Brian Eckert and Bob Orr, members of St. Bart's, took charge of the suitcase on display in the church hall. PHOTO: GILLES VÉZINA

Alongside Hope’s solar suitcase campaign brings light to mothers and babies

Valerie Maier January 30, 2026

In the closing months of 2025, the diocese of Ottawa supported Alongside Hope’s national campaign to bring light and renewable energy to rural clinics in ...

Lighting the way to Mozambique and Madagascar

Jacqueline Tingle September 28, 2025

Alongside Hope’s 2025 Wild Ride aims to raise funds to equip eight off-the-grid rural health clinics with life-saving renewable energy. And thanks to a generous ...

Staff from Village Health Works assess children for malnutrition in rural Burundi in 2017. Alongside Hope has partnered with VHW again, this time to support local production of a Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), the supply of which is in jeopardy due to aid cuts.

Alongside Hope close to achieving fundraising goal before June 30 matching grant deadline

Janice Biehn May 23, 2025

With one week left to go before a matching grant’s June 30 deadline, Alongside Hope is closing in on its fundraising goal. The Canadian Anglican ...

L-R: Pam Hazen, gardener; Barbara Bottriell, PWRDF parish representative, and the Rev. Lee Lambert, incumbent at St. Thomas Stittsville, plant a seedling.

Branches of Hope project celebrates success — 24,000 trees planted in Uganda and Ottawa

Valerie Maier March 20, 2025

In 2022 the Diocesan PWRDF/Alongside Working Group were inspired by a PWRDF partner visiting Ottawa who describing the tragic consequences of changing climate occurring in ...

Roseline Mukonoweshuro and Farai Gumisai

PWRDF unveils new name and welcomes partners from Zimbabwe

Leigh Anne Williams, Janice Biehn December 26, 2024

There was a festive atmosphere at St. Stephen’s Church in Ottawa on a November evening as the diocesan Primate’s World Relief and Development (PWRDF) Working ...