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In this section we highlight areas of the world in dire need that don't always make the media headlines, where Tearfund's partner organisations are working to lift people out of poverty and transform lives.
So the G8 summit is over for another year. What did it achieve?
From Tearfund's point of view, talks on climate change made little significant progress.
Yes, there was a commitment to a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050 but latest scient... More >> |
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World leaders are gathered in Japan this week for the G8 summit and Tearfund is there as well.
Climate change, development in Africa, the spread of HIV and the need for clean water and decent sanitation are just some of the issues affecting poor cou... More >> |
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Joy Andrew writes:
It’s not easy, trying to distill all you’ve learned during one of the most extraordinary times of your life into 300 words.
But that’s what I was asked to do by Tearfund, so who am I to argue?
I’ve spent the last ten months i... More >> |
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Under the cover of darkness, Lucy Teti’s attackers moved in silently.
The Kenyan night made it difficult to count their exact number but about eight young men, armed with swords and with violent intent, saw easy pickings at a house and plot of land ... More >> |
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Climate-concerned clergy got on their bikes to deliver 10,000 signatures collected by Tearfund calling for tougher UK government action on carbon emissions.
The church leaders came from across England as part of the Stop Climate Chaos Campaign.
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A two-year project by Tearfund to tackle sexual inequality among Christians in parts of Africa has produced positive results.
The initiative was aimed at churchgoers in Burkina Faso and was prompted by a 2004 UNAIDS report which said married women a... More >> |
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Rebuilding livelihoods and repairing damage caused by the massive tidal surge inflicted by the Myanmar cyclone will be two big challenges in the country’s long term recovery.
That’s the assessment of one of Tearfund’s key partners in the relief ef... More >> |
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A Tearfund partner’s account of the death of a Zimbabwean teenager from starvation has given a stark insight into the country’s worsening food crisis.
The death of the 19-year-old highlights the severity of the situation facing the population, a th... More >> |
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Staff working for a Tearfund partner in Zimbabwe were today arrested by riot police.
Five workers for the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) were taken from their Harare offices to the city's central police station for questioning.
It's understood t... More >> |
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Changes to the UK Government’s strategy to tackle HIV in the developing world have received a mixed reaction from Tearfund.
While welcoming the Department for International Development’s (DFID) announcement of £200 million for social protection prog... More >> |
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Church leaders in Bulawayo are embarking on a peace tour to calm tensions in the run up to the Zimbabwean presidential election later this month.
Voters return to the polling stations on 27 June to decide whether Robert Mugabe or opposition leader... More >> |
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Tearfund is calling for greater investment in poor communities to help them cope with the global food crisis.
The call comes as next week world leaders meet in Rome to discuss food insecurity and rising prices which are affecting 850 million peopl... More >> |
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Tearfund’s partners in Zimbabwe are overcoming election intimidation to deliver much-needed food supplies to vulnerable people.
With just over a month until Zimbabweans return to the polls for a run-off vote to elect a president, violence and attack... More >> |
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Tearfund church partners are responding to growing food shortages which are affecting millions of people in Ethiopia.
A continuing drought has left more than three million Ethiopians in need of food aid, estimates the UN, up from 2.2 million just a ... More >> |
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Tearfund partners in beleaguered Zimbabwe are being affected by the widespread torture and violence in the aftermath of the country’s disputed presidential election vote.
Among the incidents reported are:
a volunteer being forced into hiding af... More >> |
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A Tearfund partner in Myanmar (Burma) today revealed plans for a major relief operation in the aftermath of deadly cyclone Nargis.
World Concern Myanmar is one of two Tearfund partners with church links working to help survivors of the storm which... More >> |
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Up to 30,000 people are now believed to be missing following Saturday’s cyclone in Myanmar, with the death toll now reaching 15,000 - and expected to rise further as remote areas are reached.
Tearfund has two main partners in Myanmar, which we canno... More >> |
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New evidence of politically-motivated violence is emerging in Zimbabwe as the results of the presidential election are finally declared.
As predicted, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won a larger share of the vote than his rival Robert Mugabe bu... More >> |
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`A grim outlook for the months ahead’ is how one Tearfund partner is describing the food and security situation in Darfur.
Attacks on food convoys are having a marked effect on supplies in the beleaguered Sudanese region.
Mohammed Makki El Rasheed,... More >> |
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Churches in Zimbabwe are opening their doors to people facing persecution in the aftermath of the country’s elections.
Tearfund partner, Churches in Bulawayo (CIB), says its members will be `immediately opening their doors so as to shelter the victi... More >> |
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Education for the street children of Malawi comes mainly from the school of hard knocks.
It’s an unforgiving classroom where youngsters can find themselves being beaten up, robbed, sexually assaulted and hungry.
Begging is an inescapable part of th... More >> |
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Intimidation and violence are being reported by Tearfund partners across Zimbabwe as uncertainty about the election results continues.
Staff inside the country are also encountering hostility to the work of overseas charitable and voluntary organisa... More >> |
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When a civil servant messes up big time up in Bangladesh, they get shipped off to the district of Barguna.
This coastal area edging onto the Bay of Bengal is known as the punishment state, a place where living conditions are tough for errant officia... More >> |
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Asha was so young when she arrived at the Omdurman es-Salaam camp that she can’t remember much about it.
She came with her older sister from the Nuba mountains of Sudan, fleeing Africa’s longest running civil war.
Asha is now a mother and is one of... More >> |
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Tearfund’s relief work in Darfur is continuing despite what the UN describes as an `unprecedented level’ of attacks on aid workers in the Sudanese region.
The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Darfur has condemned the violence and called f... More >> |
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There are many trials of life for the people of Darfur.
Banditry, murder, hijackings and rape all happen with numbing regularity.
Most media coverage concentrates on the conflict, so it’s easy for outsiders to be left with the impression that the p... More >> |
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Tearfund research has found targets set to halve numbers of people unable to access a proper toilet are in massive danger of failing.The Millennium Development goals planned to halve the number of people without adequate sanitation by 2015.
But Tear... More >> |
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