Located in Canberra. Raw Potential aims to empower local disadvantaged youth by providing non-judgemental support and opportunities for their future. To help break the cycle of poverty, Raw Potential offers a variety of services for “at risk” youth to positively change their lives. This includes: legal advice, healthcare, rehabilitation, counselling, housing, education, employment and financial assistance. Ultimately, the organisation aims to guide the youth on a course that allows them to realise their raw potential.
Wontulp-Bi-Buya College
Wontalup-Bi-Buya College supports the development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men 18 years old and over, through study programs leading to Nationally Accredited Certificates. Courese include: Theology and Ministry, Suicide Prevention in Social and Emotional Wellbeing, Addictions Management and Community Development. The College continues to provide much-needed remote learning opportunities when face-to-face learning can no longer be offered.
Integrated Wash and Literacy Program, Vanuatu
The Integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program of the The Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM), in Vanuatu supports local people to address the worst impacts of climate change and the issues stemming from an increasing population.The focus is on enabling access to clean water and preventing water contamination by human waste. Volunteers of the Program have used funds to construct a dam to collect water, repair the existing reservoir tanks, and install new piping to connect water.
2019 – 2020
Local: Companion House. Companion House is a non government community based organisation. It works with adults and children who have sought safety in Australia from persecution, torture and war related trauma.
National: Australia Youth Engagement. This project funds Church initiatives that engage young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In the Northern Territory, Aboriginal leaders seek to break some of the destructive cycles they observe, by engaging their young people more in the church.
International: the Zambia Gender and Governance Project. This year the project aims to see: 30% decrease in gender-based violence across four villages comprising 12,795 people, 300 people accessing legal advice about gender-based violence, 40% of all reported cases of GBV successfully closed, 225 men trained and actively involved in the Men Engage Network aimed at preventing Gender-based Violence, 95 people accessing micro loans to establish small businesses.
Local: the Common Ground accommodation project. Common Ground provides people who are homeless or who have a low income with safe and secure accommodation at a rent affordable in their circumstances — together with support services promoting independence and self-sufficiency.
National: the Wontulp-Bi-Buya College, based in Cairns. The College provides leadership training for Indigenous people in Queensland and beyond in the fields of theology, mental health and community development.
International: the Al Ahli Arab Gaza hospital a vital work of the Diocese of Jerusalem. The hospital work to provide the best medical care possible with gracious Christian care under the most adverse circumstances. It treats all people in need. The political status of Gaza affects all aspects of life because of restrictions on movement of materials and people in and out. Electricity, medicines, food, fuel, and personnel are all restricted to some extent.