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Educating children at school, kitchen garden techniques and skills.
Kitchen gardens in schools have sprouted in popularity in recent years, helping to teach a…
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Sarishabari Area Development Project
Farida and Dulal Mia are a married couple who live in a village in the Sarishabari district…
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Assitance for Somali Refugees in Ethiopia
The East Africa food crisis hit the headlines in mid-2011, and many people responded with…
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HIV care and education It's estimated that around 33 million people are currently…
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A Water Supply for Diif
The East Africa food crisis affected an estimated 12 million people in the region. The worst…
Rewriting the story of maternal and child health in Afghanistan
The birth of a baby is meant to be a time of joy and excitement, but for many women living in Afghanistan it’s a time of great uncertainty and risk. Here, one in eight mothers die while giving birth, usually in their homes and often in remote areas. In the lead up to the birth, only 16% of women have access to a trained health care practitioner.…
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Improving Family Health in South Sudan - Jospina’s Story
Did you know it’s International Women’s Day on 8 March? In the spirit of this day, we’re sharing this story of an amazing young woman and her determination to improve her family’s health. Fifteen-year-old Jospina from Rumbek East in South Sudan (pictured, with her brother) proves that where…
Hope in India
TEAR Australia’s National Young Adults Coordinator Matt Anslow spent two weeks travelling in India visiting several projects run by TEAR’s long-term partner EFICOR. Here, Matt shares about the power of working in collaboration with communities, the beauty of seeing the Church following Jesus’s…
Relief & long-term development in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia
Tim Rae - TEAR Australia’s Africa Team Leader - describes TEAR's immediate assistance in relief work, and the long term approach to aid and development, focusing on our partners in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
East Africa relief in SBS “Go Back to Where You Came From” (video)
If you watched the recent SBS program “Go Back to Where You Came From”, you may have seen the Dollo Ado refugee camp on the Ethiopia/Somalia border. TEAR is currently supporting the humanitarian work of ZOA, which is working in the Dollo Ado refugee camp, one of the main receiving camps for people fleeing…
TEAR does not have any current emergency appeals, however, we continue to support projects addressing small scale crisis situations around the world through our regular giving programs.
How TEAR Responds to Emergencies
Integral Alliance
Integral is a global alliance of Christian relief and development agencies responding to emergency situations around the world. Its main focus is on collaborating when disasters happen, to find opportunities to avoid duplication, and to maximise resources for communities requiring emergency relief. TEAR Australia is a member of the Integral alliance.
While TEAR allocates the majority of its resources to long-term development work, we also support responses our partner organisations make to humanitarian emergencies. Apart from the immense and immediate suffering they cause, disasters deepen poverty and retard development.
TEAR supports both short-term emergency relief projects that enable disaster-affected people to survive, and medium-term recovery and rehabilitation projects. Highest priority is given to those cases where development work that TEAR is supporting is directly affected by a disaster. Care is taken to minimise the risk of relief inputs undermining local markets and communities' other self-help capacities. Focus is given to projects which help prepare communities for longer-term development initiatives.
TEAR responds to partner requests for emergency assistance either directly or through joint efforts with other members of the Integral Alliance.
When you support TEAR through our regular giving programs, it allows us to commit long-term funding for our international partners who are working with communities to create lasting, sustainable change.
TEAR's Approach to Development
TEAR Australia’s development program is shaped by a vision for a just and compassionate world in which all people have the opportunity to achieve their God-given potential. We work in partnership with local Christian organisations, rather than implementing projects ourselves, because we believe that local people best understand the needs of their communities and can develop authentic long-term relationships, resulting in projects that are both relevant and sustainable.
TEAR supports grassroots development initiatives where community members, particularly the poorest and most marginalised, can determine project priorities and participate at every level of project implementation. Our partners understand the complex and multi-dimensional nature of poverty and therefore approach development in a holistic and integrated way. As such, they frequently implement integrated community development projects that address a combination of issues, including health, education, food security and livelihoods, water and sanitation, environmental sustainability, gender equality and governance.
Most of all we passionately believe that good development works – that with the right approach people can experience lasting transformation and the fullness of life that God intended.
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