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June Voices of Hope/Voix d'espoir - Equipping Indigenous Youth in Canada
The latest Alongside Hope News...
- From problem comes opportunity: Burundi partner to make life-saving food locally instead of importing it
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Donors support new daycare centre for young adults with disabilities in Lviv
- From gardener to entrepreneur: a journey to success
- Our name, their story – Roseline from TSURO Trust
Plus resources and upcoming events
- Praying with Alongside Hope and guest reflector Esther Wesley
- Join our “Becoming Kin” Book Study
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Get your June Under the Sun
- Order our new Annual Resources
- Watch our Resilience Fund webinar with Village Health Works
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Voices of Hope can be shared in English or French in your parish as a bulletin insert, read as an announcement, or included in an e-blast.
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From problem comes opportunity: Burundi partner to make life-saving food locally instead of importing it
When USAID paused funding in February, children at Village Health Works (VHW) in Burundi faced a devastating shortage of lifesaving therapeutic food. In response, VHW—with support from Alongside Hope—is launching Magara Meza, a local, sustainable RUTF production initiative. This community-led solution will fight malnutrition, create jobs, support farmers, and ensure no child goes without care. Together, we’re turning crisis into long-term resilience.
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Donors support new daycare centre in Lviv for young adults with disabilities
After fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Seluwa Said and her family arrived at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania, where they struggled to meet their basic needs. Food was scarce, and they often had to get by on just one meal a day. Things began to change when Seluwa joined the Sustainable Vegetable Farming Project, run by Church World Service and supported by Alongside Hope. With training and tools, she started growing vegetables, feeding her family, and earning an income. Read her story to see how growing a small garden helped Seluwa build a more stable life.
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From gardener to entrepreneur: a journey to success
After fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Seluwa Said and her family arrived at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania, where food was scarce, and they often got by on just one meal a day. Things began to change when Seluwa joined the Sustainable Vegetable Farming Project, run by Church World Service and supported by Alongside Hope. With training and tools, she started growing vegetables, feeding her family, and earning an income. Read her story to see how growing a small garden helped Seluwa build a more stable life.
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Our name, their story | TSURO Trust
Over the past few months, we asked our supporters what their thoughts on our new name, Alongside Hope. Listen to Josephine Mukonoweshuro's thoughts on what Alongside Hope means to her.
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Thursday, June 12, 1 p.m. ET
Praying with Alongside Hope
All are welcome to join our online parish. Hundreds have prayed with us from across Canada. Our reflector is Esther Wesley, former Coordinator of the Anglican Church of Canada's Fund for Healing and Reconciliation.
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This fall, please join Alongside Hope for a six-part online book study facilitated by Alongside Hope volunteers and staff. The book study is part of Alongside Hope’s 2025 learning process we are calling Living Into Right Relationships.
What is the book about, you ask? Here is a brief synopsis:
“Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to ‘unforget’ our history.”
“Becoming Kin” is available at your local library or bookstore, and an audio version can be found on audible.ca.
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Missed the Resilience Fund webinar?
Watch the video above and meet our partner Village Health Works
In Burundi, USAID cuts led to a shortage of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), impacting Village Health Works' efforts to combat childhood malnutrition. However, with support from Alongside Hope, VHW will start producing RUTF locally, helping to prevent and treat malnutrition in children.
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Get Ready for the 2025 Wild Ride
Celebrate the light of the summer sun and support safe births in Mozambique and Madagascar. You are invited to join Alongside Hope for the fourth annual Wild Ride, launching June 20 (the Summer Solstice and longest day of the year) and ending on October 4 (the end of the Season of Creation).
Join others across the country as we walk, cycle, roller blade, bake, read, knit, swim, kayak, canoe, dance and sing – or pretty much any activity you would like to undertake. Join the Wild Ride and be a light for change!
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Book your Mapping Exercise workshop
Alongside Hope's Mapping the Ground We Stand On is now available as an online or an in-person workshop. Learn more at alongsidehope.org/mapping-exercise.
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Alongside Hope wants to hear from you
Please share your fundraising success stories to inspire others and to spread the word about the good work you have done! Email Alongside Hope and tell us about it. We extend graditute to our donors.
| | | | Watch for the latest issue of Under the Sun in your June Anglican Journal | This issue is themed around innovation from our new name to the work of our partners, and the impact on our donors. It is also available for download. | | |
2025 Annual Resources now ready to order!
We're delighted to introduce a new suite of materials designed to bring the work of Alongside Hope into your parish or community. From innovative folders to the tried-and-true book marks, place mats, offering envelopes and more, this year's resources make a colourful display on bulletin boards or Narthex table. We also have a new bulletin cover to use for an Alongside Hope Sunday, as well as a new worship resource which includes orders of service for Holy Eucharist, Service of the Word and a sample sermon.
| | Communion Forest education resource invites you to share your stories | | | | In the third and final year of Alongside Hope's Creation Care: Climate Action Education Focus, we are examining the intersections of climate change and health; how planetary and ecosystem health directly affect human health. Learning Module 3.1 focuses on the Communion Forest initiative of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Tell us how your parish has engaged in Communion Forest activities! Download the resource to learn more, and email us at info@alongsidehope.org. | | | | |
