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Aid worker rescued from collapsed Haiti hotel
Monday, 18 January 2010, 4:36 pm | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
A missing staff member of TEAR Fund’s aid partner, Compassion, was miraculously found alive buried under the rubble of the Montana Hotel in Haiti’s capital. A French rescue team found him along with three other survivors as they propped up ... More >>
Gift for Life a winner as corporate Christmas gift
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 9:59 am | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
In this tough economic climate TEAR Fund’s Corporate Gift for Life offers a novel way to reward staff and clients without breaking the budget. Gift for Life items are practical gifts you buy on behalf of a loved one or friend which benefit the ... More >>
Do something about the epidemic on World AIDS Day
Monday, 30 November 2009, 10:43 am | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
Everybody can do something on World AIDS Day (Tuesday, December 1) to help victims of the AIDS epidemic affecting nations such as Uganda. That’s the message from Nicola Manners; a former Tauranga resident, now a caregiver at Watoto Babies’ Bulrushes ... More >>
Kiwis urged not to forget disaster in India
Wednesday, 7 October 2009, 11:38 am | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
IN the midst of so many disasters this month TEAR Fund is urging Kiwis not to forget about southern India which has been affected by heavy rains with a death toll of more than 250 and a displaced population of 2.5 million. In terms of the scale of ... More >>
Former Paul Colman Trio rocker returns to NZ
Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 3:18 pm | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
Grant Norsworthy, a former member of the popular Paul Coleman trio who wowed audiences earlier this decade, is touring the North Island with a series of free concerts from October 9 to 18 in support of TEAR Fund. A Grammy nominated, and Dove award-winning ... More >>
Teacher concerned for sponsor child after disaster
Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 2:54 pm | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
A teacher at St Mary’s school in Gore is concerned about the child the school sponsors in the Philippines, after the country was hit by the heaviest floods in more than 40 years. Bernard Lepardo is sponsored through aid agency TEAR Fund New Zealand which ... More >>
Kiwi supported project in Afghanistan wins award
Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 9:48 am | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
A UNESCO Confucius Literacy prize has been awarded to a literacy programme in Afghanistan which has been supported by Kiwis through TEAR Fund NZ. Warfare, strong cultural resistance to female education and lack of a writing system for the dialect being ... More >>
Funds help prevent civilian deaths in Pakistan
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 10:34 am | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
As civilians in Pakistan’s SWAT Valley region flee to IDP Camps amidst fighting, the threat of disease could claim even more lives than the exchange of gun fire between Pakistan troops and Taliban fighters, said TEAR Fund programmes director, Esther ... More >>
Key peace-building role for TEAR Fund director
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 9:45 am | The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund
In addition to his role as TEAR Fund NZ executive director, Stephen Tollestrup has been appointed as The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) director of Peace-building and Reconciliation Initiative (PRI), a special project launched by WEA in a bid to ... More >>