Switching from chemical to organic fertiliser can make a big difference to small-scale farmers. Before he received training from RURCON, a Tearfund…

This feels like a timely edition of Footsteps magazine. And a great one to kick off the crucial decade ahead of us. The effects of climate change are…

Our series of Q&As with country directors continues with Karen Soerensen, Country Director for Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen since 2017. Originally from…

Redeemed Gospel Church Pipeline (RGCP) sits in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi where more than 500,000 people live in extremely poor…

Across the world young people are rising up. They are demanding action on the environmental destruction, poverty and injustice that threaten their…

Our series of Q&As with country directors continues with Vincent Moyo, who has worked for Tearfund in Malawi since 2006. He shares his thoughts on…

The cover of the new Footsteps magazine is full of hope. It features nine young people from all corners of the globe and makes me curious to know the…

I have heard a lot of transformational stories, but none has been quite so engaging as Albert’s. We met Albert on a field visit to Good News Baptist…

Finding a job in Mali is not easy so, like many young people, Justin Traoré hoped to start a business of his own. However, starting a business…

In recent years, climate change has meant Abebech* and her husband have faced some hard times. They are farmers in the village of Offa Esho Kebele in…

Kadiatu Mansaray and her husband, Sarrah Mansaray, were known to community members as the couple who always argued with each other. They lived in the…

Ashraf has worked for Tearfund for more than ten years. He steps down next month to take up a role with the Pakistan Partner Initiative working with…

Moises Frausino da Silva has faced many droughts in his lifetime and lived much of his life with a lack of water. He is a father of 11 children and…

Both Kandhi Gound and his wife, Rukman, have been living with disabilities since birth. They live with their son in a village in central India and…

In Kenya, pastoralists’ communities live in some of the harshest environments and their livelihoods have been severely hit by recurring droughts.

Mumtaz and Beenish are in their sixties. In fact, they are not quite sure of their exact ages. But they are sure about their love for their community…

In the Surkhet district of Nepal lies the village of Gadi. The village was one of the least developed in the area, so the community struggled to…

A group of women from Goma in DRC lived in a divided community. They suffered from poverty and marginalisation, and there was a climate of mistrust…

Fresh hope has sprung from an unexpected source in rural Cambodia – cricket farming. While following an exciting church and community initiative,…

Award-winning British chocolatier Will Torrent will be pleased to know that chocolate consumption around the world is on the rise. The latest figures…

The Global Forum on Church and Poverty inspired me to begin to see Nigeria in the light of Jubilee. This, in turn, prompted me to start to fully…

The tsunami in Sulawesi in Indonesia, Super Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines, Hurricane Florence in the USA, and the floods in Kerala, India, have…

A young man in Bangladesh is raising up tomorrow’s leaders on a diet of homegrown food and business skills.

The 2015 earthquakes devastated communities across Nepal. As well as the sad loss of life, the quake destroyed infrastructure and livelihoods in many…

The power of the church The quote in our title is from a pastor in Honduras, speaking after Hurricane Mitch in 1998. He points out that while others…

I peer into darkness. I’m trying to see who is in this hut and what is going on, but there’s lots of smoke obscuring my view. Gradually, I make out…

How do you start to bring together survivors of genocide with those who perpetrated the violence? Even for the most sensitive and diplomatic of…

‘It was decided because I was the eldest girl, I would not go to school like my brothers,’ says Birungi. ‘Instead I should stay at home to look after…

In Brazil, children go to prison from the age of 12. Tragically, most of them are back in prison within a month of being released. After many years…

When prisoners are released at the end of their sentence, starting a new life outside the prison gates can be incredibly challenging. Many…

I must admit, I was quite tired. That is after spending five hours on the road in a minibus from Nairobi to Kericho in Kenya. I then had a few…

Just having a good idea and motivation is no guarantee of success. Here are a seven of the most common reasons why businesses can fail:

Disasters affect nearly all aspects of life, but particularly livelihoods. Sometimes the damage done to people’s ability to earn an income is a…

Everyone deserves the opportunity to earn a livelihood, provide for their family and support their communities. Jobs and economic opportunities are a…

Life for Regatu and her family in a village near the city of Adama, in Central Ethiopia, was once comfortable when her husband used to work in a…

Youth unemployment is a huge problem in Nigeria. Half of the country’s population is under the age of 30, and the public sector cannot absorb the…

When Betty invested her self-help group loan in a solar panel she did more than just connect her village to electricity — she connected them to each…

In Afghanistan, women and girls often have few opportunities to work or develop a livelihood. Self-help groups bring together local women who meet on…

For most of her life Mrs Thembani Masilela hadn’t given much thought to chickens. As a woman who grew up in rural areas she was brought up to ensure…