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
Sponsorship Practical ideas for writing letters to your sponsor child Do you sponsor a child but feel lost and confused about how to write them? Don’t worry, you’re not alone! These feelings do not make you a bad sponsor. Writing to your sponsor child shouldn’t feel like a burden, so we’re here to provide great tips on how to write an encouraging letter to your child. Read more
Sponsorship Protection against violence When Eva’s father got drunk or high, which was often, anything could upset him. And when he was upset, he spoke harshly to Eva and beat her mother. “In addition to his alcohol addiction, my father seriously abused drugs,” recalls Eva, now 17. “When he was on drugs, he had really bad behavior. Sometimes he said that I was not his daughter. Read more
Sponsorship Why Your Efforts to Tackle Child Poverty Matter Now More than Ever The United Nations recently released the 2020 report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sharing sobering data on the world’s progress towards goals like ending extreme poverty and increasing global food security. The outlook already wasn’t positive prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. Now, the COVID-19 crisis is devastating global progress towards the Goals. Read more
Farming and Enterprise Meet the woman changing the lives of thousands of war victims Imagine experiencing war and destruction. Imagine not being able to enjoy life as a child because you always lived in the fear of death. Read more
