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School’s out: three fun activities to teach children about poverty and justice

For some of us it’s the time of the school summer holidays: at least six whole weeks with children or grandchildren that we care for. While it’s great to have them around, it can sometimes be frustrating trying to keep them occupied with something that stimulates them, and allows us to share our faith, and grow theirs.
So here are three fun and thought-provoking activities for parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and carers, or holiday clubs to do with children. These are simple ways you can hel...
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The grandmother facing up to the climate crisis

As we seek and pray for increased global efforts to halt the worst effects of climate change, families are already suffering. In Malawi, farmers like Beatrice are struggling with the change of weather, which threatens to push them back into poverty. Meet the grandmother who is learning new skills so her family can survive.
The odds were already stacked against Beatrice, a 60-year-old grandmother who lives in a small rural village in central Malawi. The family live season-by-season and rely on t...
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What Good Friday teaches us about bad justice

I want to tell you about a man who was tried, convicted and unjustly executed for blasphemy. His name is Jesus. That’s not what we usually focus upon at Easter and the death and resurrection of Christ. But it’s a crucial part of the story that’s important not to separate or overlook. Because at the heart of the Gospel, is a call to challenge injustice…
American historian, Professor Douglas Linder, is the author of the Famous Trials website, hosted by the University of Missouri. The website exami...
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A tissue of truth

A Christmas reflection by Peter Shaw, Tear Times Editor

Arriving in the Rohingya camps in February this year, it was hard to get a sense of scale. We knew that more than 700,000 people had fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since August 2017. But to picture it, we needed to get higher.

I noticed a three-story wooden structure with a ladder leading to the top. Tearfund’s partner staff told us it was an elephant-spotting tower. The camps are situated in a wildlife sanctuary south of Cox’s Bazar....

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South Sudan: helping Mary’s family find their feet

When Mary’s husband died and violent conflict stole everything from her, Tearfund’s training helped her stand up again.

Stories like Mary’s aren’t unique to South Sudan. Extreme poverty affects vulnerable communities around the world. But this doesn’t have to be the case.

This summer, your gift could have twice the impact and help even more people like Mary to rebuild their lives and transform their communities.

Give today and your donation could have twice the impact for communities living in extreme poverty.

https://www.tearfund.org/mary

Photography: Tom Price
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Your Legacy | Val's Story

Every year, scores of people kindly leave generous gifts for Tearfund in their wills. Find out more about leaving a life-giving legacy here: https://www.tearfund.org/legacy.

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WE LOVE MANGOES

A few years ago, if you had a mango tree in Chagunda village, Malawi, you guarded it carefully. Food was scarce and everyone held onto the little they were growing. But now, thanks to Tearfund’s partners, Chagunda is a fertile place with abundant food. Now children are free to climb the trees and help themselves to the juicy mangoes. It’s one of their favourite pastimes and they’ll tell you why.

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Martha Collison: 'God Can Heal Broken Lives.'

We caught up with Martha Collison to talk about faith, baking and Tearfund.

To support people living in extreme poverty visit: https://www.tearfund.org.

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The views and opinions expressed in the above video are solely those of Martha Collison. They do not in any way represent the views of the Great British Bake Off. The Great British Bake Off is in no way associated with, connected to or promoting the work of Tearfund.

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Folk Musicians Support Southend YMCA: A Place to Dwell

Folk Musicians Support Southend YMCA – A Place to Dwell
Self Released – 25 May 2018
This brilliant, eclectic and challenging new folk and experimental compilation has attracted a stellar cast of contributors while raising vital money for vulnerable young people in Southend.
 
For those (like me) still lamenting the loss of The Owl Service – the stunning alternative folk band that took listeners on an enthralling sonic journey for ten years, before their sad demise in 2016 – this compilation prov...
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The Ultimate Question of Douglas Adams, the Universe, and Everything

Travelling across the infinite, unimaginable vastness of space has a number of unexpected pitfalls. The most frustrating being that however mind-bogglingly gargantuan the cosmos appears to be, you often still have to trudge past backwater dives you wouldn’t waste a Zanglian Omni-torpedo to destroy, because you’d have to wipe all the soot out of your missile tube before the tedious business of reloading.
Interstellar travellers in from Bakalastic IV would loudly lament on late night Ultrawireless...
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Reviewed: Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary — The Star Beast

Doctor Who is back! And I mean back, back. Fun, lively, challenging, and (appropriately) nostalgic… It’s been 15 years since David Tennant and Catherine Tate lit up the screens as one of the very best Doctor and companion combinations (not counting the brief return for The End of Time specials). Just think, that’s almost as long as the ‘wilderness years’…

But what was remarkable was how natural it felt to have the Doctor and Donna back together. And returning showrunner, Russell T Davies, did...

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