New data out of the US shows that the gap between rich and poor has grown wider: the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest parts of the population in 2007 was the highest it’s been in 80 years, while the share of income going to the middle one-fifth of Americans [...]

Here’s an image from Reuters by Photographer/Journalist Damir Sagolj featured in the Guardian’s 24 Hours in Pictures display that they run each day. It speaks volumes. It’s often easy to glance past images without really taking them in and giving them a second thought. When we do so we miss the rich stories and reflections that they offer us. Take [...]

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.

A member of the TEAR Fund International Programming Team talks about the situation in Kyrgyzstan and central Asia, plus his recent travels.

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 [...]

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

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. St Francis of Assisi was a man who devoted himself to poverty in order to travel and share the Gospel, [...]

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. There is a verse in the Bible that is often quoted to justify not working to help the poor. Jesus [...]

The following was co-written by Paul Thompson (National Coordinator for Micah Challenge Aotearoa) and me. It can be found on the Micah Challenge Aotearoa (NZ) website. “Poverty Hurts Your Soul” is the title of a new paper published by the Conference of European Churches. They say “In Christian understanding, poverty and social exclusion are understood as a failure to uphold [...]

It’s time to enter the discussion about Pat Robertson’s comments relating to Haiti. The comment from the infamous televangelist that has caused much furor in the media and around the internet can be viewed over on Youtube. In the clip, Pat Robertson makes a connection between Haiti’s poverty and suffering and a “pact with the devil” that was supposed to have [...]

As Haitians suffer the devastation of an earthquake that his ripped apart the lives of many and left an already poor nation crippled even further, it was with sadness that I read the Sunday Star Times article regarding the empires of three prominent Auckland churches, revealing their financial situations and their growing wealth. The suffering of the Haitians and the [...]

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.