It all started in 1968, when it became normal for every household to have a television.
“This was the first time ever people had been able to see through mass media the immense suffering and pain of the people in Africa who were starving to death,” said Virginia Luckett, head of UK churches for Tearfund.
“There was a series of famines in the mid-60s that caused such a massive shock around the world. The Christians in the UK, particularly the Evangelical Church in the UK, said ‘this is wrong’.”
She told Premier that financial donations started flowing into the Evangelical Alliance to address the injustice happening and that’s when Tearfund was born.
It began with a passionate preacher named George Hoffman travelling around the country leading the call for Christians to show empathy to those suffering.
“They were involved in quite a lot of hospital-led work. Nurses were helping in famine situations,” Luckett said.
Year by year, as the need grew, so did Tearfund.
The group supports marginalised people, promotes education, advocates for clean water and feeds the hungry, and these are only a few of its responsibilities.
The one that’s probably the most widely-known is disaster response. It’s something Donald Mavunduse, head of the south and Eastern Africa team for Tearfund knows very well.
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