Alongside Hope Resilience Fund
Alongside Hope is responding to the urgent needs of many of our partners who have been affected by cuts to international aid.
Resilience Starts With You
Restore hope. Help communities thrive.
Because of devastating global aid cuts, refugee families have been turned back, HIV treatments are disappearing, and children are going hungry.
But there’s still hope – because of people like you.
Your Generosity Is Transforming Lives
When ten refugee families in Tanzania were days from resettling in the U.S., the sudden suspension of the U.S. resettlement program halted their dreams. They were forced back to the camp – with nothing. Because of donors like you, Alongside Hope is helping provide housing, care and psychosocial support, ensuring these families aren’t forgotten.
In Burundi, a $1 million aid shortfall left thousands of children at risk of severe malnutrition. Alongside Hope and our partner Village Health Works are launching Magara Mesa , a community-owned factory to produce life-saving therapeutic food locally – saving lives, creating jobs and building long-term resilience.
In Uganda, Alongside Hope parnter Rape Hurts Foundation lost USAID funding used for support services for survivors of gender-based violence. Alongside Hope will boost financial support its existing RHF program, which will provide training, accommodation, food and nutrition and more.
How you can help
PRAY for refugee families, women rebuilding their lives after gender-based violence, and communities impacted by aid cuts.
ACT by speaking with your Federal Representatives about their commitment to internationa aid. Use our Letter Builder and Advocacy Tools. Share this Emergency Appeal leaflet with your parish.
GIVE. No gift is too small. Together, we can multiply hope – just as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.
How to give:
By phone: 1-866-308-7973.
By mail:
Alongside Hope
80 Hayden Street, 3rd Floor
Toronto, ON
M4Y 3G2.
Please indicate “Resilience Fund” on your cheque.
Watch the campaign launch webinar
Alongside Hope staff share the impacts USAID cuts are having on our partners, what Alongside Hope is doing to respond, and how you can advocate for our partners and the importance of international aid in this election season and beyond.
Watch the webinar with our partners from Village Health Works
Alongside Hope partner Village Health Works relied on USAID to produce and deliver Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a fortified peanut “porridge” used to treat children with malnutrition. Through the Resilience Fund, Alongside Hope is collaborating with VHW on a new project to locally produce its own RUTF, thus eliminating the dependence on an outside supply chain. In this webinar, VHW board member and physician Dr. Jennifer Furin joins Alongside Hope staff to share the heartbreaking realities of health care in Burundi, one of the poorest countries in the world. In the days right after the USAID shutdown, Dr. Furin wrote an eye-opening essay for Time magazine about the impact of the lack of RUTF on her young patients. The article shed light on the fragility of aid organizations and spurred VHW to find this innovative solution.
Alongside Hope partners affected by cuts to international aid include:
Tanzania
Families supported by Church World Service who were preparing for a new life in the United States and had already left the Nyarugushu Refugee camp and given away their possessions were forced to return to the camp with nothing, their dreams of resettlement shattered with the suspension of the US Refugee Resettlement Program.
Burundi
- Cuts to USAID led to a supply shortfall for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) with Village Health Works
- With Alongside Hope funds, VHW will build locally produced RUTF to prevent and treat childhood malnutrition.
Kenya
- Children are already missing life-saving anti-retroviral medications. And their caregivers are no longer receiving vital support.
- 42 staff at National Council of Churches Kenya who were providing youth mentorship programming and support for school fees have been laid off, affecting 8,000 youth and 8,000 orphans and vulnerable children.
- Children are no longer able to attend school.
Mozambique
A five-year program with partner EHALE that was improving maternal health services and access to health care for young mothers was forced to shut down.
Democratic Republic
of the Congo
Plans for a program with the Panzi Foundation that would have brought dignity to women recovering from gender-based violence have been shelved.
Uganda
Rape Hurts Foundation lost USAID funding used for support services for survivors of gender-based violence. Alongside Hope will add $25,000 to its existing RHF program, which will support training, accommodation, food and nutrition and more.
