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We are Christians collaborating for a world free of poverty and injustice.
Because every person matters.  Because every person is beloved by God and invited to a life that is whole and hopeful.
As an agency of the Uniting Church in Australia, we connect Australian people to God’s work in the wider world.

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Right now, we’re working with grassroots communities in 29 projects in 14 countries.

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Please support our Lent Event projects that are breaking the cycle of poverty through children’s education, women’s equality, climate action and disaster preparation.

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Financial Year 2016-2017

  • 75% International Programs

  • 12% Fundraising Costs

  • 10% Accountability & Administration

  • 3% Community Education

  • 2% Multiple Regions

  • 19% Africa

  • 28% Asia

  • 51% Pacific

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Our Stories

Looking back as we look forward to Assembly

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News
June 18, 2018

As we prepare for the 15th Triennial Assembly, I’m reminded of the bold step taken by our overseas church partners three years ago in Perth. In an unprecedented move, they stepped up and tabled a statement they’d penned in which they offered their resources to the UCA to... [Read More]

After the conflict: peacebuilding in Maluku

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Blogs, Women's Empowerment and Peace Building (Maluku, Indonesia)
June 18, 2018

“Since the conflict,” “after the conflict,” “during the conflict.” These phrases pepper almost every conversation. It might be 20 years, but the violence that broke out between Muslims and Christians in Ambon, Indonesia in 1999 is still the watershed event that shapes all narratives. Peo [Read More]

Equality through theology in Papua New Guinea

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Church Partnership Program (PNG), News
June 18, 2018

Biblical training continues to help unlock chains of oppression for women in Papua New Guinea, one of the toughest places on earth to be born female. Many of you have heard about our gender theology work for women’s equality. Last month thirty-four men and women from all seven... [Read More]

Is poverty ever going to end?

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News
June 18, 2018

I read recently that Australians have never been more generous – some of them, anyway. Super wealthy, generous individuals are giving like never before. Their projects of choice? Things with measurable outcomes and big legacies. Medical research is a good example. Let’s find a cure for a disease [Read More]

Biofuel beating poverty in Bali

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Blogs, Women's Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation (Bali, Indonesia)
June 13, 2018

Dolores (name changed to protect privacy) has the most soulful eyes you could hope for on a cow. Part of her earnest expression, I’m pretty sure, has to do with her confidence that not only is she saving the planet – she’s going to give families a chance... [Read More]

Australian Aid: way too much?

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Blogs
June 5, 2018

Here’s an interesting fact. In 2016, a  survey of ordinary Aussies by the Campaign for Australian Aid found that most people believed the Australian Government was spending about 13% of our total budget on foreign aid. “Way too high!”  the people shrieked.  “What about those in need here. [Read More]

Investing in the skills of Papuan women

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Blogs, News
May 15, 2018

On a small island out on a lake in West Papua, a group of women are crafting themselves out of poverty by keeping a disappearing local art tradition alive. The banks of their lake home skirt the far limits of Papua’s most modern city, Jayapura, but people here still travel between the... [Read More]

A prayer for the victims of church bombings in Java

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News, Pray
May 14, 2018

The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan and UnitingWorld National Director Dr Sureka Goringe have written to churches in Indonesia to express sadness and solidarity after the tragic church bombings in Surabaya, Java on Sunday. 11 people were killed in the explosions and more [Read More]

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