We are Christians passionate about the local church bringing justice and transforming lives - overcoming global poverty.
So our ten-year vision is to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty through a worldwide network of 100,00 local churches.
We have five priority areas that we focus our work on:
- Defeating disease: our goal is to help stop the spread of HIV and reverse the impact of AIDS.
- Improving basic services: guaranteeing clean water and good sanitation in the areas that we work.
- Tackling disasters: responding to disasters, but also investing in churches in vulnerable areas so that they are better equipped to cope when disaster strikes.
- Climate change: mobilising churches in the UK and Ireland to take action themselves and persuade governments to cut greenhouse gas emission, but also helping people in poverty adapt to the reality of climate change.
- Resolving injustice: Tearfund's plan to resolve injustice begins with campaigning for trade justice, as international trade rules are rigged to favour rich countries.
‘You really have to go down to the ground to find the very poorest who have no voice. Local churches work with everyone. They know the poorest people in the village, because they live there.’ Pastor Cuthbert Gondwe, of Tearfund’s church partner Eagles, Malawi.