Diocese of Winchester

Mothers’ Union members around the globe have started to pray for members and projects organised by Mothers’ Union in the Diocese of Winchester, and the family of diocese to whom it is linked in our annual cycle of prayer. Winchester, Kitgum and Muhabura (both in Uganda), Masasi (in Tanzania) and Kajo-Keji (in Sudan) will remain [...]

Last week, Mothers’ Union backed calls from Churches in Sudan for peace and a respect for human rights to be upheld as the country prepares for national elections in April 2010 and crucial referendum in January 2011 on unity or independence for Southern Sudan.
Mothers’ Union has families of Diocese stretching across the world who pray [...]

MASASI HEALTH CENTRE PROJECT – TANZANIA

Sick people in Masasi currently have to travel 25 km (15 miles) to the nearest health centre and 16 km to the nearest dispensary just to buy drugs for pain or for prophylaxis treatment for malaria, which is among the top ten diseases in Tanzania. In addition to this, [...]

Kitgum is situtated in Northern Uganda and is one of the Diocese we form our regular international links through the Mothers’ Union Wave of Prayer. Together with Kitgum and Muhubura in Uganda, Masasi in Tanzania and Kajo-Keji in southern Sudan, we will be at the centre of the prayers of all Mothers’ Union members around [...]

Every family is formed by a network of relationships where some members have particularly close relationships, and the same is true of the Mothers’ Union family; each diocese which has Mothers’ Union members is linked closely with a small group of other Mothers’ Union diocese around the globe, so that they get to know each [...]

Mothers’ Union members in the Diocese of Winchester are linked with fellow members in specific regions of Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania. All these regions are now affected by devasting famine conditions across East Africa.
Crops have failed for the third time in 12 months, livestock are dead or dying and families are spending all their time [...]

Mothers’ Union has just launched its new all year round ethical giving catalogue: Global Village Fair
Using the website Global Village Fair (click on the link) or leaflet you can choose from a range of ethical gifts for any occasion. Whether in memory of somebody, as a birthday present or for a wedding gift, your purchase [...]

Mothers’ Union members are active in an incredibly diverse number of ways in their communities around the world.
There are many development projects being resourced. Recent posts and our information pages detail some of them, including the Family Life Programme in Uganda, and the Literacy and Development Programme.
Other projects run by Mothers’ Union worldwide are featured [...]

East Africa is in the middle of a drought. In Kenya the problem is particularly acute: an estimated 10 million people are already living with starvation. Speaking to the ‘Church Times’ in August, Fiona Thomas (who works at Mary Sumner House, head office of Mothers’ Union) was quoted as saying:
Mothers’ Union Kenya, had started to [...]

Our next Information Day is on
Friday 23rd October 10am – 2pm
at
St. John’s Underhill Centre,
St. John’s Road, Hedge End, Southampton SO30 4AF
We will be welcoming
John Wilkinson OBE
Secretary of Hampshire based charity
Education Uganda
John is one of a group of experienced educationalists who are improving primary education in Uganda by supplying schools and training Ugandan teachers in the [...]

A small charity has contacted us through this website with more information about Kajo-Keji in southern Sudan, which is one of our international links.
“Actions in Truth” are working particularly with children’s education and orphan’s including those who have been displaced into northern Uganda, where of course we also have a link with the Diocese of [...]

Two useful updates have come out from Mothers’ Union central office today.
The first is the latest update about Social Policy issues as the Mothers’ Union connects with current reports and issues affecting family life, including parental leave.
Rachel Aston, Head of Social Policy at Mothers’ Union, and speaker at this weeks Mary Sumner Day event at [...]

The government recently recognised the unique contribution that faith-based organisations like Mothers’ Union make in delivering development and connecting with community needs.
As part of its white paper “Building our Common Future” the Department for International Development have said they will be doubling funding to to faith-based groups engaged in such work.
In the mean-time Mothers’ Union [...]

The recent edition of on-line news from Mary Sumner House (head office of the Mothers’ Union) includes this gem of God’s blessings to the people of Zimbabwe, through the work of Mothers’ Union members.
The dioceses of Zimbabwe do not have direct links with Mothers’ Union members in Winchester, but there are many members and supporters [...]

Members of the Mothers’ Union in the Winchester region will be pleased to know that a new edition of ‘Archway’ is due out at the end of July. It will be distributed at our forthcoming Information Evening, to be held at St. Boniface Church, Chandlers Ford at 6.00pm on Wednesday 22nd July.
Features in the forthcoming [...]