By Carl Worthington In March this year I had the privilege of visiting villages in Paratawada, India. Each of these remote rural communities are served in different capacities through TEAR Fund NZ and their partner EFICOR. A large part of their vision is to provide water to the impoverished local people through water harvesting techniques. It was very hot the day we visited the Mazarkapadi Village. All of our team carried bottled water in our day packs. My dry thirst [...]

In this episode of the Podcast we talk to one of the people from our partner organisation in the Philippines, the Center for Community Transformation (CCT). CCT primarily works in micro-enterprise around the Philippines but has now also started a ministry working with street dwellers in Manila. We chat with Maricar about this work.

The New Zealand Herald ran an article this morning on an issue that many in the NGO sector are aware of, namely a proposed shift in how the organisation that facilitates New Zealand government foreign aid is structured. At the moment, the budget for foreign aid is facilitated through an entity called NZAid. I do not wish to go into the details of how NZAid is structured, its history and the proposed future, what I do [...]

When discussing Fair Trade and the use of co-operatives as a healthy business model in developing areas, I often get asked what a co-operative (co-op) is. Allow me to give an explanation here for people who may not have grasped an understanding of this business model before, and allow to me to share why I think it is a strong model for developing areas.

With the ever growing awareness of humanitarian issues around the world related to aid and community development, there is a corresponding desire growing amongst many people to get themselves directly involved in humanitarian work. Because of this, many people are specifically looking for humanitarian jobs. Because the aid and development sector is so large and growing at an alarming rate with new organisations popping up all the time, many people have no idea where to [...]

When many of us picture aid and charity to developing nations, I think we often picture the heady times of the 80′s and the aid that poured into Ethiopia due to the work of people like Bob Geldof and Live Aid. We were bombarded with images of poverty and rightly the world’s heart was moved, resulting in one of the biggest outpourings of aid and charity that the world has ever seen. Aid in the [...]

About the authors: Jerald and Tina work with YWAM (Youth With a Mission) and live about 3 hours away from Guatemala City. Jerald is from Nicaragua and Tina is from New Zealand. Their work focuses on healthcare and community development. ———————————- Last week we were joined by Bill and Peggy Pratt, Luke their grandson and a family friend, Kelsey, all from Washington along with Jacobo and Janet Pineda from here in Guatemala.