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 [...]

TEAR Fund Advocate Phil Ryburn describes his recent trip to India, particularly his time with Saahasee and Freeset.

Tear Fund’s Advocate Manager – Beth Harper – talks about the Insight Tour she recently led to visit our partners in India.

Sue Braithwaite, TEAR Fund’s Resource Development Advisor talks about her recent trip to India and her seminars for elderly supporters around Aotearoa.

TEAR Fund’s Easter Focus for 2010 has been empowering women in the slums of India, specifically focusing on the work of our partner, Saahasee in the Bhiwandi area on the outskirts of Mumbai. Recently a group of our advocates had an opportunity to visit that project. One of the them was Carl. This is Carl’s reflection on that visit. It [...]

While in India, I had the opportunity to talk to a few young people living in poverty who have New Zealand sponsors. I asked one young guy (11 years old) what he would wish for if he could have one wish and know without a doubt that it would come true. The circumstances that young man lives in could only [...]

Frank Ritchie talks about his recent trip to India, visiting TEAR Fund partners ASHA and Sahaasee and learning more about slum life first hand.

Her Eyes, originally uploaded by made2serve. Yesterday I got back from India. I was there with one of our International Programme Officers, Jared, to look at the work of ASHA in Delhi and Saahasee in Mumbai. Both of these organisations are partners of TEAR Fund NZ. If you help support our work, then you also help support theirs. After seeing [...]

Last night I had the wonderful opportunity to have dinner with friends – it wasn’t a normal dinner with friends though. In the room were a number of people representing different countries. At the dinner table there were 5 from Aotearoa, 1 from the Congo, 1 from India, 1 from the UK and our 2 esteemed guests who the dinner [...]

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 [...]

TEAR Fund has many generous donors who are engaged with various parts of what we do, whether it be child, sponsorship, micro-enterprise, community development, disaster relief or our peace and reconciliation efforts. I was a TEAR Fund supporter long before I became the Education and Campaigns Manager. My wife and I support a number of TEAR Fund initiatives including child [...]

There are so many things that could be said today as we reflect on the crucifixion of Jesus, but  I thought I would give the word to one of our partners overseas. The following reflection is from Dr Kiran Martin from ASHA in India - one of the organisations we work with in that great part of the world. Dear friends, [...]

The following was written by Carl Worthington, a TEAR Fund supporter who has kicked off a radical campaign to raise money to see a well built in Orissa, India, through our partner there. Welcome to a revolution, this year I have decided to do something bigger than myself and try to make a radical impact on the poor in Orissa, [...]

I love seeing people getting involved in the world’s issues and creatively using what they have to make a difference. It is also especially inspiring when those efforts involve personal sacrifice. A little while ago I got an email from Carl who has started a campaign called “Trade Your iPod for Life!“. Our advocacy manager, Beth, had sent him my [...]

TEAR Fund is committing $80,000 to bring relief to the displaced millions following the worst flooding in 50 years, in India’s state of Bihar. TEAR Fund’s partner in India, the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR) is experienced in disaster relief, having responded to most of the worst disasters to hit India over the past three decades. A [...]