Posts under Tag: Child Sponsorship
Uplink – Child Sponsorship with Steve Tollestrup

Frank interviews Steve Tollestrup about Compassion Day, the current tours and child sponsorship particularly in Haiti

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Up:Link 34 – Compassion Day
Up:Link 34 – Compassion Day

Sarah Jeffries, TEAR Fund’s National Events Manager, talks to Drew about the upcoming Compassion Day radiothon and tours.

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Interview with Armin Chermue

Drew interviews Armin Chermue about her experiences growing up as a Compassion sponsored child in a remote, impoverished hill village in Thailand.

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Interview with Grant Norsworthy Part Two

The second part of Frank’s interview with Grant Norsworthy where he relates his deeply moving experiences in Rwanda…

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Interview with Grant Norsworthy

Frank interviews singer/artist/speaker/thinker and all round nice guy Grant Norsworthy about attitudes to giving and Child Sponsorship.

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His Name is Pramanik

Compassion International, the organisation TEAR Fund NZ partners with in Child Sponsorship, runs a programme that unites them with bloggers. From time to time they take groups of bloggers on trips to see the work done in the developing world first hand and those bloggers write while on the trips, giving their readers a close proximity to what is happening and what [...]

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Compassion – Our Partner

Our child sponsorship programme around the world is run by our partner organisation Compassion International. Today, I thought I would offer you a video that explains Compassion International a little. If you would like to sponsor a child through TEAR Fund NZ and our partner, Compassion, call us on 0800 800 777 or click here.

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Why I Sponsor a Child
Why I Sponsor a Child

Long before coming to work at TEAR Fund, my wife and I decided to sponsor a child. I thought I would share a little about why. Firstly, we’re big fans of Tear Fund and their ethos of partnerships with other organisations in the developing world and because of that we have chosen to support a few of their initiatives. We [...]

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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be

As part of a determined “giving strategy” (which I may explain here at some stage), I sponsor a child in the Philippines. Her name is April. April has been our sponsor child since 2005 and will be for as long as she is within the age to receive the support we have to offer. Prior to sponsoring April, I didn’t [...]

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