PWRDF

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

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 ...
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Roseline Mukonoweshuro and Farai Gumisai

PWRDF unveils new name and welcomes partners from Zimbabwe

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 ...
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Doctors at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza operate on a patient’s leg

PWRDF health care and education support benefitting people in Gaza and the West Bank

The current conflict in the Holy Land began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched attacks in Israel. In response to the ensuing violence, the ...
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The Rev. Gillian Hoyer holds her son Thomas while her daughter Lily waters a seedling.

Greening the diocese and supporting a PWRDF partner in Uganda

The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa’s Branches of Hope project recently moved into action mode when the local working group of the Primate’s World Relief and ...
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PWRDF offers a new Lenten resource

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) and renowned biblical scholar Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat have created a free Lenten resource that focuses on health ...
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Planting trees — here, there and everywhere

This spring, the diocesan Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) Working Group hopes to help people across the diocese plant 500 trees. And as ...
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Hospital director stands in a destroyed office.

Gaza hospital partner closes to new patients

PWRDF has been responding to the ever-worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza since violence began October 7. We granted an initial $30,000 to long-standing partner, the Al-Ahli Arab ...
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Liana Gallant and Valerie Maier of the Diocesan PWRDF working group at a display table

PWRDF launches “Branches of Hope” at Synod ’23

Was the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) Working Group operating a little pre-Christmas tree lot at Synod?  Such was not the case! Those ...
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Three women stand on a map designed for the program

PWRDF exercise maps the ground we stand on

On Sept. 23, Julian of Norwich hosted two sessions of an educational reconciliation exercise developed by the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) called ...
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