Mother’s Day is a special time of the year. I give thanks for my own mother, who brought me into this world and raised me, along with some help from Dad, of course! This year, however, I’m...

Anglican Development Services (ADS-Nyanza), an Episcopal Relief & Development church partner, began working in Moro, Kenya, in 2008. Since that time, the number of local HIV/AIDS support groups has...

Today’s Episcopal Relief & Development Lenten devotional, by Dr. Christine Sine, is on the power of the cross to bring healing to body, soul and spirit – and to communities and even the world. Reading...

Year after year on December 1, World AIDS Day, news coverage of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has often been expressed in numbers. Thirty-four million people on this planet currently living with HIV. About...

We have entered the season of Advent—the season of waiting, so cue the Bob Marley soundtrack…“I don’t wanna wait in vain.”  We know of course that Advent always segues into Christmas, where Christ is...

I recently saw the film Yesterday (2004), the first Zulu language film to be released internationally.  This Oscar-nominated film puts a human face on the scourge of HIV/AIDS and its impact...

BCC, OVC, GAD, PMTCT*… what do these mean?! In the field of international development we have so many acronyms that your head can spin just trying to remember them all! BCC — behavior...

Episcopal Relief & Development recently led a study mission to Zambia, southern Africa. I’ve asked Diane Posnak, one of the participants, to share some of the experiences our group had while on the...

It’s budget season at Episcopal Relief & Development. That’s never a fun time in an organization and that’s just as true with us as anywhere else, particularly this year. Try as I might to live into a...