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Your monthly update of news, events and resources from PWRDF
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Working towards a truly just,
healthy and peaceful world.
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In this update...
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October Voices of Hope/Voix d'espoir - Read about PWRDF's support for partner Zambian Anglican Council Outreach Program (ZACOP) in ending early child marriages
The latest PWRDF News...
- PWRDF and Fight for Right bring warmth to Ukrainians with disabilities
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Killa Raymi Festival and Indigenous midwifery honour life in Ecuador
- ADSE and PWRDF are transforming communities in Kenya with goats
- Final Stretch for the Wild Ride
Plus resources and upcoming events
- Season of Creation – October 1 - October 4
- New Creation Care education resource
- 2024 Annual Report now online
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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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Learn about PWRDF's support for partner Zambian Anglican Council Outreach | |
Final stretch for the Wild Ride! | |
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With just two weeks left until the 2024 Wild Ride campaign wraps up on October 14, we need your help to make this year's event a success! As we mark 65 years of standing alongside refugees and internally displaced people, we're aiming to raise $65,000. We're off to a great start, having already reached nearly 50% of our goal, but we need more participants to help us cross the finish line.
Every dollar raised and every kilometre walked or cycled directly supports those who are displaced. Together, we can make a difference!
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PWRDF and Fight for Right bring warmth to Ukrainians with disabilities
Amidst the devastation of war in Ukraine, Mikhailo, living with a disability, is fighting for survival in Kherson. Despite hardship, he remains resilient, but winter brings even greater challenges. His pension barely covers his needs, and job opportunities are scarce. In response, PWRDF partnered with Fight for Right, providing a grant to support people with disabilities affected by the conflict. The funding helped establish a 24-hour hotline, evacuation services, and essential supplies. Through the project, Mikhailo received a heater, thermos, and solar-powered lantern, helping him and 750 other families face winter’s harsh realities.
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Killa Raymi Festival and Indigenous midwifery honour life in Ecuador
Killa Raymi, the Festival of the Moon (Sept 21-23), celebrates the end of harvest and beginning of a new agricultural cycle in the Andean world. This vibrant celebration honors the feminine, symbolized by the earth and moon, reflecting its connection to fertility and the essential roles women play in agriculture. The festival highlights the intricate relationship between spirituality, environment, and knowledge practices, mirroring Indigenous midwifery's holistic approach to maternal health.
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ADSE and PWRDF are transforming communities in Kenya with goats
In Tanzania's Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, a sustainable harvest project, supported by PWRDF and implemented by Church World Service, is transforming lives. Through training in sustainable vegetable farming, refugees like Asumani Ibocwa and his wife, Nadia Faida, have not only improved their family's nutrition and income but also emerged as community leaders. The project promotes gender equality, environmental sustainability and self-reliance, with lasting impacts on the entire refugee community.
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Share the true meaning of Christmas with PWRDF cards
When you send a PWRDF Christmas card, you're not just supporting our partners in Canada and around the world, you're also spreading the good news. Each pack of 12 cards features a heartfelt design and inspiring message. Minimum donation of $25 per pack, with tax receipts for donations of $25 or more. To order your cards, visit pwrdf.org/Christmascards2024 or contact your PWRDF parish representative or Anslim Hameed at (416) 822-9083 or ahameed@pwrdf.org.
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Thursday, October 3, 2024, 1 p.m ET
Learning Module 3.1 webinar
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In the third and final year of PWRDF'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, and other initiatives of PWRDF partners to create a Health Planet, Healthy People. This webinar will walk through the resource to enable you to use it individually or in a group. | |
Through the Anglican Communion and the ACT Alliance, PWRDF engages in the international, ecumenical Season of Creation from September 1 to October 4. In Paul’s letter to the Romans, he compares the Earth to a Mother groaning as in childbirth (Romans 8:22). Francis of Assisi understood this when he referred to the Earth as our sister and our mother in his Canticle of Creatures. The times we live in show that we are not relating to the Earth as a gift from our Creator, but rather as a resource to be used. And yet, there is hope and the expectation for a better future. | | |
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Thursday, October 10, 1 p.m. ET
Praying with PWRDF
All are welcome to join our online parish. Hundreds have prayed with us from across Canada. Our reflector in October will be Leona Lortie, Public Engagement Manager for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
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Book your Mapping Exercise workshop
PWRDF's Mapping the Ground We Stand On is now available as an online or an in-person workshop. Learn more at pwrdf.org/mapping-exercise.
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PWRDF 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 PWRDF and tell us about it. We extend graditute to our donors.
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2023-2024 Annual Report now available | To order an Annual Report, email pwrdf@pwrdf.org. The French version will be available soon. | |
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World of Gifts guide available soon!
The 2024 World of Gifts campaign is launching this October! In choosing a gift, you are supporting PWRDF’s partners by funding essential items for their life-changing programs. Watch for the 8-page World of Gifts guide in your October Anglican Journal, or view and download it online. Ordering is easy – by mail, phone at 1-877-936-9199 (Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST), or through our secure online portal where you can make your gift anytime.
Help make a world of difference today!
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Super Friends 11! now available | Super Friends is a long-standing Social Justice resource produced by PWRDF for children, with stories, activities and faith connection. In this newly revised edition, you will find these same elements and more. Super Friends 11! focuses on Right Relationships and Reconciliation. Free to a maximum of 20 copies per parish, per year! | |
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Don't forget!
Super Friends 10 and its supporting resource are still available for download or to order!
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a just generation is a series of conversations with allies, educators and folks working to bring about equity and justice.
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Join Duncan Chalmers and Robyn Sulkko in conversation with PWRDF Humanitarian Response Coordinator Naba Gurung as they chat about how PWRDF responds to humanitarian crises and disasters in Canada. | |
(left) The placemat includes children's activities and the Prayer for PWRDF on the reverse; (top right) the offering envelope and (bottom right) bulletin cover reflect the Let's Make a World of Difference theme. | |
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PWRDF’s educational and informational resources unite us in prayer and action for the work of PWRDF and partners. They focus on the overall work of PWRDF and partners around the world and extend an invitation: “Let's Make a World of Difference.” Order pieces to support a PWRDF Sunday, such as bulletin covers and offering envelopes, as well as our popular in memoriam and in honour cards for use anytime. New resources will be available in 2025. | | | | |
