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Episcopal Relief and Development's Sectors
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Our work around the world addresses the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals by focusing on:
Our food security programs ensure families have the means to access and secure healthy food sources. We make sure families have enough food to eat on a daily basis and food supplies are available, affordable, and accessible. Our programs:
- offer seeds and tools so communities can grow better crops, build healthier nutrition, and increase their yield in areas where poverty limits resources and access to food.
- provide opportunities for people to create and operate small businesses and expand their sources of income.
- give families healthy animals which produce food and income.
Our primary health care programs help children and families live healthier lives. We promote good health care and fight preventable diseases. We provide treatment and care for the sick who are often unable to access and afford quality health care services. Through our work in communities around the world, we:
- provide access to treatment, medicines, clean water, prevention education, and care to vulnerable people, such as mothers and their children, in communities around the world.
- educate and train communities and local health workers on preventable illnesses and proper sanitation practices.
- build clean water systems for people to have a safe water supply for drinking and bathing.
- protect children and families from contracting infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, dengue fever, and diarrhea, and supply immunizations to vulnerable communities. One example is our malaria project which provides anti-malaria medicines, treated bed nets, and education in communities where the deadly disease is widely spread.
Our comprehensive HIV/AIDS care programs provide prevention education, care for people suffering from the disease, and support for children left behind. We are present in communities hardest hit by the disease including Africa and other areas in the world and we:
- train clergy, youth educators, and local health workers to educate communities about the disease and its transmission.
- work with hospices, health care centers, and grassroots organizations to get care and treatment to people dying from HIV/AIDS.
- support home-based caretakers, social workers, and nurses for families affected by the disease.
- create a future for AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children by giving them an education, nutritious meals, training, and housing and provide support for their extended families.
Our emergency relief and rebuilding program provides critical assistance, such as food, clean water, and shelter, after man-made and natural disasters around the world and in the United States and rebuilds devastated communities after the immediate crisis is over. Through our program, we:
- work with Episcopal, Anglican, or ecumenical partners in affected areas to respond immediately after natural and man-made disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and war.
- deliver life-saving supplies, such as medicine, blankets, and food supplies, and provide shelter to children, women, the elderly, and other vulnerable people.
- rebuild devastated areas and work with local communities to assess their needs and build homes, schools, health clinics, water systems, and churches, and train people to start small businesses.
Click here to see how many lives ERD is touching in each of these four program sectors.
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How ERD is making a difference...
Countries
We lift communities out of poverty around the world in areas such as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. We partner with local organizations in the Anglican Communion to ensure vulnerable people have healthy food to eat and get proper health care.
Domestic
We provide critical supplies to people through local dioceses after natural and human-made disasters. We partner with the dioceses to get life-saving aid to children and their families and stay with communities after the crisis to provide ongoing support.
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Featured Resources
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