Our partnerships advance the empowerment of women and youth with vocational training and skills-building through diocesan projects for economically and socially marginalized groups. We also promote advocacy and raise awareness around LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion and human rights among clergy, community leaders and other community members. With our support, SADD created Casa Noeli, a support house for women experiencing gender-based violence (GBV).
While SADD is using its voice in ecumenical and NGO dialogues related to sexual and gender-based violence and the rights of sexual minorities, the Diocese of Brasília is mobilizing church leaders and youth to both monitor and promote human rights in Brazil. Working together to increase the IEAB’s leadership in gender and justice issues at the community and national levels.
The Diocese of Amazônia’s climate resilience work builds on the achievements and community partnerships established during our recent two-year food and cash-for-food disaster response programming in Pará and Amazonas. New resilience-building activities added include environmental restoration through native reforestation and economic empowerment through savings and loan group formation. Episcopal Relief & Development supported this integration of savings work by sponsoring the Amazônia team in a South-South peer exchange to our long-standing Angolan Mothers’ Union Savings with Education (SwE) program and equipping and training facilitators.
We are supporting SADD in their work with the Anglican Diocese of Pelotas to re-establish their co-living house, the Reverendo Severo Institute, that is a community-cherished place for events, meetings and retreats in the South region following the severe rain and storms that hit the region of Rio Grande do Sul in March 2024.
