Issues: Poor Communities <Back to previous page Welcome to Tearfund Learn's blog. It's a lively and diverse forum where voices from around the world share their stories, learning and insights. Love our Blog? Sign up to Tearfund Learn to get our latest blogs, learning and resources. Subscribe Active Filters: By Tearfund Learn, 22 May 2020 Covid-19: 10 ways to support older people Churches are in a good position to respond to the rights and needs of older people in direct conversation with them, and to advocate for them, given… Read More By Sas Conradie, 15 May 2020 Learning to live the lifestyle of Jesus Covid-19 (new coronavirus disease) is causing huge stress on poor people and communities who already struggle to have food to eat, water to drink or… Read More By Sas Conradie, 08 April 2020 Finding Easter’s message in the slums of life As I reflect on what happened to Jesus on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, I think about Nathaniel. Easy-going and articulate, it is easy to get the… Read More By Anna Ling, 18 March 2020 Passionate about project cycle management We are so excited to share the second edition of Roots 5 – Project Cycle Management with you! Here are just a couple of reasons why people we work… Read More By Francis Davis , 20 February 2020 A new book explores poverty through the lens of Jubilee Talk of ‘justice’ can flow easily. Calls for gentle reform and renewal are put forward. They often demand no significant costs or responsibilities… Read More By Tearfund Learn, 09 January 2020 Q&A with Alexis Pacheco, Country Representative for Tearfund in Central America Our series of Q&As with country directors continues with Alexis Pacheco, who is based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and has worked for Tearfund for 20… Read More By Rev Josephine Chavaseki and Dr Sas Conradie, 28 November 2019 Churches meet community needs in Nairobi slums Redeemed Gospel Church Pipeline (RGCP) sits in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi where more than 500,000 people live in extremely poor… Read More By Anna Ling, 06 June 2019 What is poverty and how should we respond? A misdiagnosis can lead to serious problems. For example, if we visit the doctor with a headache and he or she gives us some painkillers but doesn’t… Read More By Lucy Pieterse, 06 September 2018 ‘We are young. We have the power to change our community.’ A young man in Bangladesh is raising up tomorrow’s leaders on a diet of homegrown food and business skills. Read More By Dr Viv Grigg, 20 July 2018 Slums and the struggle for security – a step-by-step guide to gain secure land rights and better services By 2020, UN Habitat predicts that 1.4 billion people could be living in slums. For me, this is the biggest challenge for urban ministry in our time.… Read More By William Quiñones, 26 February 2018 Learning to listen to and love gang members in Guatemala City My community of Santa Catarina Pinula in Guatemala City has been greatly affected by the spread of urban neighbourhoods. This growth has clearly… Read More By Mark Simpson, 08 May 2017 The kids’ club that dares to hope in Rio’s ‘stinking’ margins Rio de Janeiro is South America’s third largest urban area but perhaps its most recognisable. The Christ the Redeemer statue that watches over the… Read More By Rosa Camargo de Bravo, 05 April 2017 How football (and chocolate brownies) are changing lives in Colombia Young footballers at Club Deportivo wear kits that say ‘Jesus is Lord’ on the back. Photo: Club Deportivo Young people and adolescents from… Read More By Norman Molina, 08 July 2016 Going the distance in Nicaragua How long would it take you to get to hospital, and how would you get there? According to a 2014 report, the average distance from home to an Accident… Read More By Pete Portal, 16 November 2015 Facts vs truth: the most important battle Christians face? I live and work in a community called Manenberg on the outskirts of Cape Town. Manenberg is quite well known – though usually for all the wrong… Read More Load More Posts
By Tearfund Learn, 22 May 2020 Covid-19: 10 ways to support older people Churches are in a good position to respond to the rights and needs of older people in direct conversation with them, and to advocate for them, given… Read More
By Sas Conradie, 15 May 2020 Learning to live the lifestyle of Jesus Covid-19 (new coronavirus disease) is causing huge stress on poor people and communities who already struggle to have food to eat, water to drink or… Read More
By Sas Conradie, 08 April 2020 Finding Easter’s message in the slums of life As I reflect on what happened to Jesus on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, I think about Nathaniel. Easy-going and articulate, it is easy to get the… Read More
By Anna Ling, 18 March 2020 Passionate about project cycle management We are so excited to share the second edition of Roots 5 – Project Cycle Management with you! Here are just a couple of reasons why people we work… Read More
By Francis Davis , 20 February 2020 A new book explores poverty through the lens of Jubilee Talk of ‘justice’ can flow easily. Calls for gentle reform and renewal are put forward. They often demand no significant costs or responsibilities… Read More
By Tearfund Learn, 09 January 2020 Q&A with Alexis Pacheco, Country Representative for Tearfund in Central America Our series of Q&As with country directors continues with Alexis Pacheco, who is based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and has worked for Tearfund for 20… Read More
By Rev Josephine Chavaseki and Dr Sas Conradie, 28 November 2019 Churches meet community needs in Nairobi slums Redeemed Gospel Church Pipeline (RGCP) sits in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi where more than 500,000 people live in extremely poor… Read More
By Anna Ling, 06 June 2019 What is poverty and how should we respond? A misdiagnosis can lead to serious problems. For example, if we visit the doctor with a headache and he or she gives us some painkillers but doesn’t… Read More
By Lucy Pieterse, 06 September 2018 ‘We are young. We have the power to change our community.’ A young man in Bangladesh is raising up tomorrow’s leaders on a diet of homegrown food and business skills. Read More
By Dr Viv Grigg, 20 July 2018 Slums and the struggle for security – a step-by-step guide to gain secure land rights and better services By 2020, UN Habitat predicts that 1.4 billion people could be living in slums. For me, this is the biggest challenge for urban ministry in our time.… Read More
By William Quiñones, 26 February 2018 Learning to listen to and love gang members in Guatemala City My community of Santa Catarina Pinula in Guatemala City has been greatly affected by the spread of urban neighbourhoods. This growth has clearly… Read More
By Mark Simpson, 08 May 2017 The kids’ club that dares to hope in Rio’s ‘stinking’ margins Rio de Janeiro is South America’s third largest urban area but perhaps its most recognisable. The Christ the Redeemer statue that watches over the… Read More
By Rosa Camargo de Bravo, 05 April 2017 How football (and chocolate brownies) are changing lives in Colombia Young footballers at Club Deportivo wear kits that say ‘Jesus is Lord’ on the back. Photo: Club Deportivo Young people and adolescents from… Read More
By Norman Molina, 08 July 2016 Going the distance in Nicaragua How long would it take you to get to hospital, and how would you get there? According to a 2014 report, the average distance from home to an Accident… Read More
By Pete Portal, 16 November 2015 Facts vs truth: the most important battle Christians face? I live and work in a community called Manenberg on the outskirts of Cape Town. Manenberg is quite well known – though usually for all the wrong… Read More