TEARFUND
About TEARFUND: " Bringing help and hope"
Tearfund - The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund - was set up in the 1960s initially to offer
support a terrible famine after civil war in Nigeria. It now has over 550 projects with 300 partners in more
than 70 countries. It is a Christian relief and development charity, passionate
about seeing God's justice here on earth. Its vision is to transform the lives
of millions of the world's poorest people, in a positive and sustainable way,
working in partnership with local churches. Tearfund aims not just to help
meet basic physical needs, like providing fresh water, sanitation and
healthcare for people living in extreme poverty, but to provide them with hope,
through emotional and spiritual support also.
What does Tearfund do?
Tearfund's work particularly focuses on:
- Families affected by HIV and
AIDS - working
to revive communities where HIV and AIDS have taken such a
heavy toll.
- Partnering Poor Communities - working with churches and
Christian groups across the world, to bring both physical and spiritual
change
- Children at risk - Bringing hope to millions of
children growing up trapped in poverty fear and despair in 53 countries
Communities torn apart by
disaster - Tearfund is ready to respond with
crucial emergency relief, as well as bringing year round support to people
in vulnerable places.- People Affected by climate change - helping to counter the devastating effects of global warming by campaigning
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TEARFUND's website
If you are interested in finding out more about the work of Tearfund, then do speak to Wendy Pickard
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Prayer Needs
- For Tearfund's "Work a miracle" campaign which is attempting to mobilise the global church to stop the spread of HIV by 2015
- For Tearfund's Transform
Programme which sends hundreds of young people abroad on short term
missions each summer
- For Tearfund working in Darfur, Western Sudan: for safety for Tearfund and other aid agencies; for peace in the region; for all those in neighbouring Chad who have been forced from their homes
