Edmund Rice Foundation (Australia)

The Edmund Rice Foundation is a community development organisation which works with the impoverished and disenfranchised to liberate lives. The Foundation supports sustainable health and education projects in developing countries as well as projects for disadvantaged people within Australia. The Foundation’s vision is for a just and peaceful world where the dignity and rights of all are respected and in which all have control over their lives with access to resources and the opportunity to achieve their potential. What makes the Edmund Rice Foundation different, transformative and sustainable is that it is present with the people and communities it works with and remains sensitive to, and informed by, their experiences and hopes. The Foundation’s programs and solutions are not designed in far off countries framed by different realities. They are co-created, empowering and real. In working this way, the Foundation best harnesses the goodwill of those who desire to help and support it. The Edmund Rice Foundation reduces the separation between peoples and the reality of their circumstances and it shows how even the smallest engagement can transform lives.