TEAR Fund NZ’s senior Programme Officer is currently in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. He is there serving our partner, Tearfund UK, and will be acting as the Director of their Disaster Response Team as they go about establishing their work in the area over the next few months. Ian has kindly agreed to share his experience through regular blog [...]
Steve, the Executive Director of TEAR Fund NZ and I discuss Capital Punishment – or more to the point, Steve discusses it while I ask questions.
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.
Frank catches up with Jared, one of our Programme Officers, about his recent trip to Nepal to examine the work we support there.
TEAR Fund is deeply indebted to volunteers who carry out a number of important tasks in our Supporter Relations Department. Anne is one of our most loyal and loved volunteers. She has a keen mind, a great sense of humour and is over 80 years old.
Every Monday morning we have devotions led by one of the TEAR Fund [...]
This week we chat with Dr Tim Meadowcroft – Senior theology lecturer at Laidlaw College, TEAR Fund board member and recent visitor to the Palestinian territories.
In this edition of the Podcast, with the Sri Lankan government declaring the defeat of the Tamil Tigers and the Red Cross pulling back from it’s aid operations with the victims of recent events due to the government restricting access, we thought we would catch up with Ian McInnes, one of our programme officers and the former director of our [...]
There is a book coming out in New Zealand that looks at 5 Christian perspectives on the Palestinian/Israeli issue and puts them in conversation with each other. One of the 5 contributors is Steve Tollestrup, the Executive Director of TEAR Fund. In this edition of the Podcast we chat with Steve about the book, the Christian perspective of the issue [...]
In this Podcast we talk to Patrick McDonald, head of the Viva Network and advocate on child issues. Patrick was recently in New Zealand for TEAR Fund’s Compassion Day.
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 [...]
Recently our advocates team who were on an Insight Tour in the Philippines got back. This was written by Jane Laurie (TEAR Fund Regional Co-Ordinator).
Dear Friends
The TEAR Fund Advocate Team returned to NZ on Sunday. All of us, through the haze of being jet lagged, are still processing what we have seen and experienced.
You have read in previous blogs of our [...]
Check this video promo for TEAR Fund’s upcoming events in 2009!
Check out the events & tours section on the TEAR Fund website for more details and more events.
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 [...]
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, India.
It [...]
Right now we have an Insight Tour in the Philippines. Occassionaly the team will be updating us on how the trip is going. This was written by Jane Laurie (TEAR Fund Regional Co-Ordinator).
Day One
How do I begin to explain our day – it was certainly action packed.We have seen some amazing projects with CCT (Center for Community Transformation) and met with [...]
Clarissa & Stephen Wickens recount the visit to their sponsored children – 15 -16 December 2008
We had decided more than a year ago that we would spend Christmas 2008 and New Year in the Philippines with Clarissa’s family. Since we were going anyway it seemed like a too good an opportunity to miss to visit our sponsored child, Ronald, and [...]
