Correspondent Daughters’ Letter Is Helping Challenge Child Marriage in Nepal In rural Nepal, teenage girls are finding the courage to speak up for their future. Through a powerful letter to their parents, they are challenging child marriage and choosing education instead. With support from Tearfund’s local partner, communities are beginning to shift, opening the way for girls to grow, learn, and thrive. Read more... Sharon Walls, Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Correspondent The Voice on the Phone Scam calls targeting Kiwis often hide a darker truth. Behind some cybercrime are vulnerable people trafficked into scam operations and forced into digital slavery. Tearfund and its partner LIFT International are helping expose these crimes and support survivors. Read more... Sharon Walls, Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Advocacy The Exploitation of Migrant Workers in New Zealand & Why We Must End Employer-Tied Visas On International Migrants Day, we uncover how migrant workers who keep Aotearoa’s orchards, vineyards, and construction sites moving are caught in unjust systems that were never built to protect them—and call for change. Read more... Morgan Theakston, Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Disasters and Conflict Two Tearfund CEOs and the Disaster that Unites Them On opposite sides of the world, two Tearfund CEOs faced the same disaster in strikingly different ways. This is the two-part story of their response to the Sri Lanka Boxing Day tsunami. Read more... Ian McInnes & Steve Tollestrup, Thursday, November 20, 2025
Mums and Bubs The infant survival programme saving lives in Indonesia One year ago, Tearfund launched its first Mums and Bubs programme through our partner, Compassion. Kiwis responded, and this year we were able to support two amazing groups of mums and their little ones in Kupang and North Maluku, Indonesia. Read more
Sponsorship Raphael's fight against Child Labour Meet the Compassion director going above and beyond to protect the children in his community vulnerable to child labour. Read more
Sponsorship Child Sponsorship launches Apollo to success Most school children worry about their homework, or whether their best friend is going to be in class, but that was not Apollo Kagwa’s experience growing up in Kampala, Uganda. Read more
Modern Slavery Why you should support a Modern Slavery Act in New Zealand Sixteen million people worldwide are forced into labour to make the everyday products we buy. They live as slaves. Read more
Sponsorship My Life was Changed This wonderful event will begin with a mini-documentary followed by speakers who will share about the defining moment somebody changed their life forever. During this intimate and engaging time, you will discover how their futures were shaped by the actions of another and learn how you can be that someone who can transform someone else’s life. This inspiring event will tug on your heartstrings as you are drawn into these fascinating, life-giving stories. Read more
Modern Slavery Why does New Zealand need a Modern Slavery Act? Sixteen million people worldwide are forced into labour to make the everyday products we buy. They live as slaves. Read more
Disasters and Conflict Where is God in the Ukraine Crisis? As we watch the news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it raises all kinds of questions for many of us. Did you see our Facebook live? If not, here are the top three things we talked about. Read more