Reducing vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation by addressing the root causes. This includes awareness-raising and community mobilisation, increasing income generation and education opportunities and supporting women's empowerment initiatives.

Investigating both domestic and cross-border cases of trafficking and exploitation; facilitating the rescue of victims; and prosecuting perpetrators through strengthening judicial and financial systems and holding these to account

Providing trauma-informed aftercare services for survivors of trafficking and exploitation for recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration into the community

Church Engagement Manager

Wayne has been with Tearfund since early 2022 having come from many years working in Pastoral Ministry and Christian Events within the Baptist Churches. A passionate speaker, popular wedding celebrant and with a heart to reach the poor, Wayne has developed personal networks in South East Asia and has travelled up there many times to offer support to the people on the ground helping underprivileged children, mainly in Vietnam. Wayne loves bringing the reality of how each one of us can make a small difference to a child's life and in return know God's blessing on us as we follow Jesus' directive to reach out to the poor. 

International Programmes Director

Tim Manson is the International Programmes Director at Tearfund New Zealand. His team is responsible for delivering NZ$18 million in aid through innovative programs all over the world. Originally from New Zealand, he grew up in Cote D'Ivoire, West Africa until the age of 14. Tim has a Masters in International Development with First Class Honours that has seen him lead a large team in Uganda providing trauma rehabilitation services for refugees and survivors of war. Before moving into the development field, he worked as a secondary school teacher, specializing in History and Classical Studies. He's lived in both the United Arab Emirates and Uganda for a total of 8 years and has visited over 35 countries including Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon and Ethiopia as an aid worker. Tim is married to Helen, a humanitarian photojournalist, and together with their four young kids they hail from Pakuranga, Auckland. 

Head of Advocacy

This passage from Amos 5 encapsulates Claire's drive to see the world become a more just place. Claire has been with Tearfund for over a decade and leads Tearfund's advocacy work to bring systemic change on issues of injustice.

Over her time at Tearfund, Claire has become a specialist in modern slavery and human trafficking. The advocacy work she leads seeks to address these issues domestically in New Zealand and also internationally via the advocacy initiatives of Tearfund's partners. She has expertise across human rights in supply chains, ethical consumption, worker exploitation and biblical justice.

Claire's motivation for the work she does comes from her Christian faith and from the stories of real people facing situations of exploitation, poverty and injustice that she comes across in her work. Claire loves to share her passion to address modern slavery, and how this issue connects with our lives daily, with schools, churches, small groups or businesses.

Claire is a mum to six-year-old Adeline and, in her spare time, teaches local Zumba classes and is studying towards a Master in Legal Studies.