Useful Gifts

Channel your Christmas giving to tackle poverty

In a culture driven by consumerism and excess, Useful Gifts offer an alternative anchored in compassion, generosity and love. ▶ Watch how it works.

Instead of adding to the pile this Christmas, you can give something truly useful to someone who really needs it.

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A traditional birth attendant (left) in Sindh, Pakistan

Tearfund Christmas Appeal 2026

Restoring Hope This Christmas

This Christmas, your gift can help bring life in all its fullness to those who need it most. Help break the cycle of poverty and restore hope.

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Making Christmas a Season of Generosity

Join us to look more deeply at ways we can cultivate generosity as an intentional, ongoing practice in our daily lives.

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A Useful Gifts Shop is a fun, easy and impactful way to fight poverty and empower your community to make a difference. We provide everything you need.

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Tearfund is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice.

We partner with Christians in Australia and around the world as changemakers to tackle the root causes of poverty, release hope, champion justice and equip communities to flourish.

Without water, the table is incomplete

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Without water, the table is incomplete

The table is where life happens. It’s where families eat, children learn, and communities gather. But without safe water, the table collapses.

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“That is not my story!”

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“That is not my story!”

After losing her father, Winnie trained with Tearfund's partner, built a baking business, and now supports her family and empowers other women in her community.

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Making Room at the Table

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Making Room at the Table

Greg Hewson reflects on lessons from Mozambique: how the radical practice of hospitality reveals God and challenges us to welcome the stranger in our lives.

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Unlocking the System for Those Who Need It Most

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Unlocking the System for Those Who Need It Most

In India, EFICOR empowers the vulnerable to navigate bureaucracy, securing vital rights like banking and sanitation for a life of dignity.

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This is How change happens: Angelina’s story

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This is How change happens: Angelina’s story

Angelina once had to choose between feeding her kids or farming. Now, she’s feeding her family and growing a future. This is how change happens.

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The gap is growing. So must our love.

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The gap is growing. So must our love.

Bec Oates reflects on her recent visit with our partners in India, where she saw marginalised communities enjoying restored dignity, hope, and opportunity.

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The Church’s agape love in action

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The Church’s agape love in action

Tearfund’s CEO reflects on the Church’s call to live out agape love – standing up against injustice and saying a greater yes to loving our global neighbour.

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Good development takes time

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Good development takes time

In over 50 years of working for holistic development, Tearfund has learnt that good development takes time - especially in the hard places.

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50 years of partnership. Lasting change.

Together with local Christian organisations, we’re tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice so people can lead change in their own communities. Last year we helped:

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Useful Gifts

Channel your Christmas giving to tackle poverty

Tearfund is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice.

We partner with Christians in Australia and around the world as changemakers to tackle the root causes of poverty, release hope, champion justice and equip communities to flourish.

What we do

Without water, the table is incomplete

Without water, the table is incomplete

“That is not my story!”

“That is not my story!”

Making Room at the Table

Making Room at the Table

Unlocking the System for Those Who Need It Most

Unlocking the System for Those Who Need It Most

This is How change happens: Angelina’s story

This is How change happens: Angelina’s story

The gap is growing. So must our love.

The gap is growing. So must our love.

The Church’s agape love in action

The Church’s agape love in action

Good development takes time

Good development takes time

50 years of partnership. Lasting change.