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Summary Of: Tearfund

Tearfund was born out of this fund... for his stewardship of Tearfund in its early years... Tearfund was registered as a charity on 6 March... for The Evangelical Alliance Relief and since then Tearfund has been a name in its own right... Tearfund produces resources for use in churches and small groups... In the early days Tearfund worked primarily through overseas missionary agencies... Gradually Tearfund shifted to establishing partnerships with indigenous Christian groups... Tearfund wanted to move from the model of western giver and developing world receiver to one... By 2006 Tearfund was working with 297 partners... more than 8000 pages of practical information that Tearfund has collected over the last 18 years... Tearfund first sent staff overseas in 1972 when nurses were sent to flood... from two weeks to four months working with Tearfund partners as part of a... In 1988 Tearfund started running some of its own projects overseas... In 1994 Tearfund set up a Disaster Response Unit... Tearfund had teams working in Burundi... Tearfund funds local churches and other Christian organisations around the world to carry out relief work... Tearfund also works to reduce the vulnerability of poor communities to disaster... In 2001 Tearfund started lobbying the UK government to put more emphasis on its own emergency... In 2005 Tearfund published a report called... Tearfund responded immediately to the... In the 1990s Tearfund began researching various... Tearfund was heavily involved in... One of the major campaigning issues which Tearfund is tackling is that of... Tearfund wants to engage people in issues of justice from an early age and has a... Tearfund is a member organisation of several coalitions...

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