World News

Guatemala quake survivors get new homes

23 May 2013 - Vulnerable people made homeless by the most powerful earthquake to hit Guatemala in 30 years are moving into new homes with help from Tearfund.

Bangladesh partners respond to cyclone

16 May 2013 - Communities in Bangladesh are being helped by Tearfund partners to deal with a cyclone that’s struck the southern coast.

Violence overshadows Pakistan elections

9 May 2013 - The church is being urged to pray for Pakistan as it prepares to go to the polls this Saturday to elect a new government.

The growing challenge of urban poverty

8 May 2013 - For the first time in human history, the majority of people live in towns or cities, with nearly 100,000 people moving into urban slums every day. Tearfund partners are working in slums around the world responding to poverty, violence, domestic abuse, gang culture, and vulnerability. Here we report on one initiative from India.

Fresh fighting displaces thousands in Darfur

7 May 2013 - Tens of thousands of people in Darfur have been displaced by renewed fighting in recent weeks. As they have over the last nine years, Tearfund teams are responding to help these people who in many cases have fled with little or nothing.

Cambodian community on road to self-improvement

2 May 2013 - Travelling through the Cambodian village of Koktarea used to be a bone-shuddering, load toppling, pothole-avoiding nightmare.

Displaced Malian tells of conflict fear

1 May 2013 - Farmer Ishaka is one of 475,000 people the UN says have been forced by conflict from their homes in northern Mali. Here the father-of-five tells of his experience and how the church has been able to help.

Partners help Bangladesh building rescue

29 April 2013 - Trained staff from a Tearfund partner are helping rescue people trapped in Bangladesh’s worst collapsed building disaster.

Rescued from the streets of Bolivia

8 May 2013 - There are an estimated 33,000 child and adolescent workers in Bolivia’s Cochabamba city, roughly 70 per cent of whom are girls and young women. Since 1991, Tearfund partner Mosoj Yan has been working with girls and teenagers who live on the streets of Cochabamba.

Church helps reconnect cut off community

25 April 2013 - Church power has helped reconnect a cut-off community in Nepal to the outside world.