Our impact

Led by local people

Every Tearfund intervention starts with people: their lives, their needs, their hopes. Lasting change must come from the community itself. That’s why we work with and through local churches and organisations. Last year:

• 19,384 local churches mobilised as transformation centres.
• 257 partners and allies worked with across 46 countries collaborating with us.
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Transforming Communities

In more than 50 years, we’ve helped vast numbers of communities to be transformed. Over the past ten years, we’ve reached more than 34 million people through our projects, of which more than 14 million people benefitted from life-saving assistance.

We’ve supported people on the brink of disaster to become resilient to shocks, self-sufficient and empowered, boldly speaking up for their rights.

Tearfund’s community development and disaster relief interventions are active in more than 63,000 communities across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

We know our approach works because the results are clear: communities go on to build schools, health centres, water systems and roads. They reclaim land for farming. Whole communities lift themselves out of poverty.