Women and children, at home and around the globe, suffer disproportionately from the inequities in society. Additionally, domestic violence can profoundly impact the safety of women and children forcing them to leave their homes and seek shelter. The Church seeks to address these issues in many ways, by supporting programs that address cycles of poverty caused by unemployment, lack of health care and domestic violence at home, and through legislation that helps achieve the Millennium Development Goals internationally.

Please refer to our Communication and Action sections to learn more about what you can do about helping women and children.

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News

[7/17/2010]  Kids of inmates focus of special camp
[Savannah (GA) Morning News] In most ways, Kamp PHUN is like any other summer camp for kids, complete with first day jitters, arts and crafts, swimming games, nighttime ghost stories, nature hikes and new best friends. But these campers are all the children of people currently or formerly incarcerated.

[4/9/2010]  DHN Letter to Senate on TANF
[2/26/2010]  Bulletin inserts outline work of Episcopal, Anglican women at UN conference
[1/15/2010]  Interfaith Statement on Child Nutrition
[11/13/2009]  In Hong Kong, Anglican consultation addresses horrors of human trafficking
[Episcopal News Service, Hong Kong] Women and men from around the Anglican Communion gathered in one of the most beautiful cities in the world Nov. 2-6 to focus on the ugly billion-dollar trade in children. The trafficking of human beings, though banned by international and national laws, is flourishing, about 40 participants learned at a consultation in Hong Kong. A seemingly insatiable desire for young women and girls, and boys too -- for sex, for labor, for organs -- is fueled by evil, by greed, by ignorance, by unbearable choices made in the name of love, or as a last resort from desperate need.