Anglican Missions Lenten Appeal is highlighting projects and partners that work to improve their communities' food, water and emergency resilience. 

FOOD IN DUE SEASON

Anglican Missions' Lenten Appeal 2026 aims to support families that have no guarantee of getting enough food, either season to season, or daily meal to daily meal. That kind of food insecurity also affects communities' wellbeing as they struggle to retain inherited traditions with food that will no longer grow under new climate conditions, such as reduced rainfall or saltwater flooding. 

The 2026 Lenten appeal supports food security projects in Africa and the Pacific, for example:

Bricks for Life (BFL) Ethiopia works in the Amhara region of Ethiopia to strengthen livelihoods, food security, and dignity amid ongoing conflict and uncertainty. In Baregota and Shu-Meda BFL distributes seeds and fertiliser and supports families to grow sustainable agricultural practices and independent soap production to bolster subsistence living.

Rwensori Special Needs Foundation (RSNF) in Kyamasongi village, Kabarole District, Uganda. RSNF supports children with disabilities and their families to improve subsistence food production and build up their livelihoods through training in climate resilient crops, drip irrigation, soil improvement, and small-scale diversified gardening. 

WATER FOR HEALTH

Anglican Missions' 2026 Lenten Appeal supports partners that provide clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene facilities (WASH) as a basic foundation for healthy communities.

Some examples of Anglican Missions' partners in WASH development are:

Water for All - Improved Health and Wellbeing in Fiji’s Informal Settlements

 The Water for All project helps communities in Fiji's informal settlements in Yalava (Sigatoka)and Waidradra (Pacific Harbour) to access clean, safe water free of disease. Installing water tanks at churches across Fiji, this "free to the community" system strengthens safe water access for communities facing unreliable supply, particularly in times of natural disasters such as in the region's frequent storms and cyclones. 

WASH in Ontong Java This project helps communities in the informal settlement of Ontong Java, in the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara. This settlement has formed in a low lying flood-vulnerable part of the city, and needs water and sanitation facilities to prevent life-threatening water-borne diseases, especially to protect children. The Ontong JAVA WASH programme supports communities to construct durable and safe latrines, install water catchment tanks, take health education courses, install biodigesters, and establish rubbish collection systems that reduce disease. 

Parish-led Health and Resilience in Papua New Guinea

Anglican Missions is working with the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea to support clean water and medical care for approx. 6000 people, through the Movi Anglican Parish's Siane Clinic in Aipo Rongo Diocese, and St Margaret’s Anglican Hospital in Oro Bay, Popondetta Diocese.

These facilities provide outpatient and maternal health services to surrounding villages despite ageing hospital infrastructure, intermittent electricity, insufficient safe water and shortages of essential equipment and consumables. Anglican Missions is supporting repair and upgrading of water, power, and medical systems for both facilities.

Another WASH project supported by Anglican Missions' Lenten Appeal is run in partnership with the Anglican Church of Tanzania, and will use education programmes to reduce new cases of HIV/AIDS infections in Dodoma city, prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to infants, and provide retroviral medication to reduce how many people die related to HIV. 

EMERGENCY RESILIENCE

The 2026 Lenten Appeal's emergency fund aims to support communities in high-risk zones to build resilience. This helps reduce the impact of natural and political disasters not only by protecting lives, but by limiting disruption to the livelihoods and wellbeing of people caught in the path of cyclones, floods and war.

Some examples of 2026 Lenten Appeal-backed projects that support emergency resilience are:

Partners in Resilience and Response (PIRR) This project strengthens Pacific communities' capacity to prepare for and respond to disasters through creating a tiered Disaster Management framework and toolkit drawing on Anglican Alliance and community development expertise from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Polynesia. The disaster management framework leaders will work with partners such as Anglican Board of Mission (Australia), Melanesian Missions UK, USPG, and Anglican Alliance staff and in Aotearoa, Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa (TPOA).

Hope for the Holy Land supports the Episcopal/Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East's Al Ahli hospital in Gaza and St. Luke’s hospital in Nablus, West Bank. These Anglican-run hospitals provide medical care to people in Gaza and the West Bank suffering from displacement, injury, poor nutrition, water-borne diseases, and war-related diseases including respiratory disorders. Donations buy essential medicines, consumables, diagnostic supplies, medical salaries, plus fuel and solar components to maintain electricity for critical hospital units.

For more information go to the Anglican Missions' 2026 Lenten Appeal Page

Or you can go directly to the AWA Donate Form Here