Tearfund
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| Founded | 1968 |
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| Founder | George Hoffman, of the Evangelical Alliance |
| Type | Christian charity |
| Registration no. | 265464 (England & Wales) SC037624 (Scotland) |
| Slogan | Following Jesus where the need is greatest |
| Mission | Following Jesus where need is greatest, working through local churches to unlock people's potential and helping them to discover that the answer to poverty is within themselves. |
| Website | http://www.tearfund.org/ |
Tearfund is a UK Christian relief and development agency which works in over 50 countries.
The charity was created out of the Evangelical Alliance (EA) and the Evangelical Refugee Fund created by the United Nations.
The organisation was originally called The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund Committee (abbreviated to TEAR Fund).
George Hoffman headed up the fund.
In January 1969 Cliff Richard did two fundraising concerts for Tearfund at London's Royal Albert Hall. He has served as the charity's Vice President and in 1999 served as its president. In 2009 Richard gave the proceeds of his first 50th anniversary concert in Wembley Arena to Tearfund.
Tearfund was registered as a charity on 6 March 1973.
Tearfund Ireland was launched as an independent charity in 2008 and now works closely with Tearfund UK as a sister organisation.
Tearfund first sent staff overseas in 1972 when nurses were sent to flood-struck Bangladesh to work with the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. The nurses spent from six months to two years working in hospitals, clinics and feeding camps.
Tearfund engages in direct operational work (via its Disaster Management Unit), and in development work partnering with local Christian groups.By 2006 Tearfund was working with 297 partners, many of them church-based groups, in a total of 565 projects. In 2006–2007 it provided £9 million to partner groups working in emergencies.
In 1994 Tearfund set up a Disaster Response Unit, now called the Disaster Management Team. The first disaster responded to was the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. By 2006–2007, Tearfund had teams working in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Liberia, Darfur, Indonesia, Pakistan and Kenya, caring for people affected by conflicts and natural disasters.
Since 2014, Tearfund have been supporting Giving Tuesday. This is a campaign to counter the effects of Black Friday and Cyber Monday by asking people to support a charity on the following Tuesday.
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