Dr. Stephen Hart, a New Brunswick Anglican, has asked his church to be actively involved in the HIV/AIDS relief and education campaign of the Primates World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) by contributing a toonie ($2 coin)...
Category: January 2004, PWRDF, Canada, HIV/AIDS

The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund is beginning a major strategy designed to focus attention on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa .
Andrew Ignatieff , director of PWRDF, told Council of General Synod (CoGS)...
Category: December 2003, Canada, PWRDF, HIV/AIDS
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund received generous responses from Anglicans who read about its financial difficulties, however the fund is cutting expenditures and working on an expanded fundraising strategy. ...
Category: June 2003, PWRDF
Local Anglicans were part of the relief effort for the people of Badger, Nfld., who were forced out of their homes by a wall of ice after three rivers surged over their banks and converged on the town in mid-February. When...
Category: April 2003, PWRDF
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund is facing a drop in donations from Canadian Anglicans that is so severe that the organization has no money for disaster relief, said executive director Andrew Ignatieff. Last year,...
Category: March 2003, PWRDF

The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund has named Zaida Bastos as co-ordinator, Africa, replacing Charlotte Maxwell, who has retired. Ms. Bastos most recently held the title of development associate, Africa and the Middle...
Category: January 2003, Appointments, PWRDF

Toronto
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is helping in two world trouble spots with donations to both war-torn Afghanistan's relief effort and to the people of Goma in the Democratic Republic of...
Category: March 2002, World, PWRDF
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) sponsored a visit to Canada by four residents of the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia - two of them indigenous - who are trying to get information from mining...
Category: December 2001, Asia / Pacific, PWRDF
Janet Dench, 38, a parishioner of St. George's Place du Canada, Montreal, has been elected president of the board of directors of the incorporated Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. Ms. Dench is executive director...
Category: December 2001, Canada, PWRDF

Anglican and other church-based aid groups working in two areas devastated by earthquakes are switching their focus to rebuilding efforts and helping communities develop their own emergency preparedness. The...
Category: April 2001, World, PWRDF