This World Humanitarian Day Tearfund asked seven staff members from New Zealand aid and development agencies to share their inspiring stories and why they choose to do this work.

Meet the Kiwi organisation and the local heroes on the frontlines working to expose human trafficking in the Pacific Islands.

The Mum of  four, has worked with everyone from ISIS wives in Iraq, to people suffering from famine and drought, to families living in the world’s largest refugee camps. 

Kiwi doctor Himali McInnes on Ethiopia’s famine, Tearfund aiming to raise $750,000 to help. “What I saw was confronting. I felt a deep sense of shame I knew nothing about this.”