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		<title>Press Release: Fairtrade Bananas Hit Aotearoa Stores</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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TEAR Fund congratulates the team at All Good for the successful import of the first shipment of Fairtrade bananas into Aotearoa (NZ)! We know it has been a long journey full of hard work. We are completely behind this effort and wish it much success!
Watch out for New Zealand’s First Fairtrade Bananas!
It’s really happening, thanks to the many Kiwis who [...]


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		<title>Press Release: TEAR Fund Opposed to Israel&#8217;s Control on NGOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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The issuing of visas which prevent NGOs from working among Palestinians has been condemned by TEAR Fund NZ.
TEAR Fund Executive director Stephen Tollestrup said issuing NGOS with tourist visas which prevent them working was another element in Israel’s `Matrix of Control’ to frustrate and intimidate the Palestinian population and their NGO advocates.

The matrix of control as described by TEAR Fund [...]


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		<title>Press Release: Samoan tsunami brings back memories for Kiwi aid worker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Arriving in Samoa was like a Déjà vu experience for Kiwi aid worker Ian McInnes, who was involved in relief operations following the Asian Tsunami. “Seeing the devastation and hearing the stories of loss and miraculous escapes brought it all back to me,” he said.
Mr McInnes is a TEAR Fund programmes officer and he has just returned from Samoa assessing [...]


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		<title>Press Release: Spare a Few Dollars on World Food Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
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As food aid falls to the lowest levels in 20 years and malnourishment rates climb dramatically, Kiwis are being urged to consider the plight of children and the vulnerable in developing nations this World Food Day (October 16).
TEAR Fund NZ acting executive director Jon Horne said, “There’s no doubt that Kiwis have been affected by the global credit crunch and [...]


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		<title>Press Release: A Little Can Make a Difference on World Poverty Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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TEAR Fund is urging Kiwis to take a positive step in helping to eradicate poverty, to mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17).
The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to October 17, 1987, when more than a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocadéro in Paris, where the Universal [...]


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		<title>Press Release: Wider consultation needed before changing NZAID</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarianchronicle.com/2009/03/press-release-wider-consultation-needed-before-changing-nzaid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
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New Zealand’s aid budget, while not above scrutiny, should not become an easy target for government tinkering, said TEAR Fund executive director Stephen Tollestrup.
Mr Tollestrup was reacting to comments made by Foreign Minister Murray McCully that New Zealand’s aid budget payments were creating a culture of `hand outs’. The minister also suggested that the goal of poverty elimination was too [...]


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		<title>NZ First Western Country to Experience Sowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
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New Zealand audiences will be the first outside of Africa to experience the joyful and rhythmic sounds of the talented East African gospel group; The Sowers.
The Sowers will play three free concerts highlighting child poverty on behalf of aid agency TEAR Fund. The opening concert will be in Auckland on March 5, followed by concerts in Tauranga and Hamilton on [...]


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		<title>Teenage Kiwi Adventure to Stop Child Trafficking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Yesterday, Ten teenagers set out from four different locations in the North Island for an outdoor adventure that will not only test their mettle, it promises to literally be a `traffick stopper’.
To celebrate 25 years of providing life-changing experiences for young people, Adventure Specialties Trust has invited 40 teenagers to undertake the Sea2summit Four Corners Journey. At the same time, [...]


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		<title>NZ Business Women Finding Hope at Bottom of Rubbish Heap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
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Kiwi photographer Susanna Burton tells about heartbreak and hope among a group of rubbish collectors in Bali and how a group of New Zealand business women are giving them the chance of a better future. 
I am jolted from sleep at an hour that seems far too early for any sane westerner. Staring double-visioned at the clock, I make out [...]


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		<title>Press Release: Kiwis to add Voice on World AIDS Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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THIS World AIDS Day (December 1), TEAR Fund has joined the Alive Campaign, a global initiative to urge the New Zealand Government and those that signed the Millennium Development goals, to put more resources into making antiretroviral (ARV) drugs more available in developing nations.

A shortage of health workers is threatening to derail efforts to combat HIV/AIDS because those affected by [...]


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