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Afghanistan – Serve Livelihood and Literacy
TEAR Fund works in the Eastern region of Afghanistan populated by the minority Pashai group providing livelihood, literacy and income generation opportunities. Goats and cows are provided to vulnerable families and training on improved herd management is carried out to improve animal husbandry in the target area. Indigenous Pashai and Pashto literacy are being preserved and promoted. Health and nutrition training is given.
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Cambodia – Credit Cambodia, Microenterprise
Microenterprise programmes extend small, fair credit loans to poor borrowers to establish small businesses. Loans are repaid and loaned again creating a sustainable cycle of development. Loan recipients also receive business training and mentoring. TEAR Fund provides assistance for their training activities in their Vulnerable Services Unit. This unit was established to assist poorer families, particularly those who are vulnerable to health and emerging social issues such as HIV/AIDs and human trafficking.
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Cambodia – Servants, Mother and Child
Working in slum areas in Phnom Penh, TEAR Fund’s partner provides community-based antenatal and postnatal care programmes, family planning, early childhood support and education as well as basic family nutrition. Traditional birth assistants work with trained health workers and midwives.
Community meetings are held where women support each other and deal with community issues such as domestic violence.
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Colombia – Microenterprise for the Disabled and Elderly
In the slums of Bogota one of the most at risk groups are the elderly poor. Their so called 'productive life' is over and they are often seen as a liability to their families and community TEAR Fund is helping to establish a simple occupational therapy and aged-care centre for some of Bogota’s poorest elderly. In the slums of Bogota one of the most at risk groups are the elderly poor. Their so called 'productive life' is over and they are often seen as a liability to their families and community TEAR Fund is helping to establish a simple occupational therapy and aged-care centre for some of Bogota’s poorest elderly.
The key objective of this project is to benefit a total of 150 elderly or disabled people, through Microenterprise, income generation and entrepreneurial education This includes Life Plan training, technical training and the formation of productive associations of 15 to 30 people.
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India – Asha, Community Health
TEAR Fund’s partner, Asha, works with under five-year-olds and their mothers by transforming India’s degraded slums into communities in which families live with dignity. Asha’s health programme involves expanding midwifery care; immunisation, nutrition, food and vitamin supplements; training community health workers; an ambulance service; and family planning teaching. Literacy, sanitation and water reticulation are also parts of Asha’s work.
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India – Eficor, Tribal Development Project
Literacy, savings and Microenterprise, agriculture training and community leadership are the main aspects of this work with the poor hill tribes of India. Farmers are trained in land treatment, moisture retention and irrigation methods.
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India – Sahaase, Integrated Development
Microenterprise operates in the slum areas of Mumbai (Bombay). Local people are training in running community groups, savings and credit co-operatives and organising care for the sick. Early childhood education and literacy and numeracy training for adults is also provided. Aids awareness and an immunisation programme focuses on protecting children against disease.
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Indonesia – WKP, Gitgit Mountain Community Strengthening
Participatory rural appraisal helps determine the needs of the community and establish open communication with all community members, particularly women and children. Past initiatives include provision of water pipeline and tanks for regular supply of clean water to poor communities. Current initiatives include assistance to classroom and toilet rehabilitations in selected primary schools, including the improvement of libraries. The project also provides medical supplies and related health trainings to government paid community health staff. A microenterprise programme provides loans to poor families to establish craft businesses and engage in animal fattening activities. Local staff in Microenterprise programmes are trained using the Candri method. Present initiatives include assistance to renovations of classrooms and toilets and improvement of libraries in selected primary schools in the Gitgit community. The project also provides medical supplies to the Gitgit community clinic. In all these activities, the community groups are mobilized and trained in leadership and organizational skills.
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Nepal – Share and Care, Community Health and Development
Essential health care services are provided along with HIV/Aids awareness and STD education programmes. Community schools are strengthened to enable them to provide quality education. Gender empowerment programmes enable communities to recognise the essential role of women in society. This project is also building the capacity of the community to increase food production and accessibility.
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Pacific- Ola Fou
Ola Fou (meaning ‘new life’) is an initiative aimed at developing youth and community workers from churches and villages across the Pacific.
Ola Fou is currently equipping more than 50 youth workers to respond to the needs of young people in villages and squatter communities in the Pacific. Youth workers build connections with young people and support their development through skills training, social programmes, responding to spiritual needs and developing community infrastructure.
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Philippines – ASKI, Microenterprise
Its aspiration to reach out to poorer communities motivated this partner to develop strategies that will optimise benefits of Microenterprise to these groups. Participatory appraisal is a first step undertaken to identify the basic problems and issues of the participating communities. Communities are then organised to identify their needs and provided skills trainings and value formation to address their own needs. When deemed ready to take on loans for Microenterprises, these organised community groups take key roles in monitoring and assisting the loan borrowers in their projects. Microenterprise businesses include rug making, sari-sari stores, food stalls, Christmas lanterns, sewing clothes and repair shops. Ongoing training is provide to ensure Microenterprise groups have skills, knowledge and resource capacity to initiate and operate sustainable businesses. Community empowerment activities help people articulate their needs to their local government officials and work with their local leaders to help direct government resources to their villages.
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Philippines – Community Development Programme for Poorer Communities
Poorer communities often miss out on micro-enterprise development initiatives. With set eligibility criteria to guarantee viability of small businesses, micro-enterprise development has generally catered to the so-called bankable poor. For some years now, 3 of our project partners in the Philippines have pilot-tested more strategic development approaches to help more vulnerable communities optimize the benefits from micro-enterprise development community partnerships. From lessons in implementation, the partners have developed participatory approaches which first address their basic issues as distinct communities and build their capacity to become entrepreneurs within their own context.
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Philippines – CCT, Microenterprise
The Centre for Community Transformation (CCT) is a microenterprise pioneer in the Philippines. Microenterprise support for poor communities is enhanced by integrating community organising and values formation modules in skills training. TEAR Fund supports specific branches and Trustbanks through CCT.
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Philippines – HSPFI, Community development
This project works in Northern Mindanao to help isolated communities with little access to basic health and education services. Organised people’s groups who have benefited from the project are now mobilised to assist adjacent poor communities as part of their outreach initiative. Loan repayments are recycled to other recipients for their identified livelihood activities. Training is provided on how to manage their projects as well as on simple financial management. Community owned and operated health services are being established to raise awareness on health issues through training. Given its good experience of working with isolated community groups, HSPFI shall focus assistance to marginalized indigenous communities.
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Uganda – Watoto, Child Care Ministry
Watoto works to take children orphaned by Aids or war from overcrowded orphanages and places them in loving family environments. Some are repatriated with family members. Food parcels are available to families along with clothing and education opportunities. Children’s villages care for those who have no families. The children are given education and medical attention.
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Niger – Famine Relief
Through Jeunesse En Mission Entraide et Développement (JEMED), TEAR Fund is involved in Project Amidinine – an integrated community development program which works with nomadic pastoralists in the Abalak region of Niger. The principal goal of the project is to develop a fixation point for a given community, which will provide the physical and social structures necessary for long term, sustainable development. These structures include wells, food security, environmental regeneration and resource management, adult and primary education, health care and capacity building. Women and children are especially targeted by the program. The project works at 24 sites and impacts an estimated 17,470 people.
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Sudan
TEAR Fund supports three complimentary disaster relief projects in Sudan:
Medair’s IDP Project in Khartoum State, Tearfund UK’s Wadi Salih and Ed Daein Projects. Support for these projects has come from a combination of fundraising campaigns and grants from the New Zealand Government.
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Somaliland
TEAR Fund with its partners is helping to provide hope and opportunities for poor families in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa. The Gargaar project is tackling many of these problems by means of peace building and addressing the economical, social, psychological and emotional needs of the people affected by ongoing civil conflict. It is achieving this through vocational training, women’s self-help groups, providing education and health education.
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You can make a real difference by becoming a TEAR Fund Changemaker.
Changemaker contributions start from as little as $15 a month.
They are allocated across our community development projects that are listed above.
Your donation is used wherever it is needed most.
Your contribution is put to use in the field by local workers working on behalf of our partner agencies. They work directly with the poorest people, identifying and addressing the cause of suffering, not just the symptoms. This significantly reduces overhead costs and ensures programmes are targeted to specific local needs. We take a holistic approach and help the poor to find solutions to their own problems.
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