Rev Paul Bartlett, one of UnitingWorld’s newest staff members, has just spent a week with our partners on the Indonesian islands of Bali and Sumba. He witnessed first hand how small loans and business skills training is giving a hand up to families and communities. Here are his reflections… As I stepped off the plane [...] » Read More
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Development in Real Life
Giving your heart to love and your hand to help
Monday, May 13th, 2013Joy, Pain, Hope and Humour – Listening to the Voices of i-Kiribati Women.
Thursday, March 28th, 2013Often across the Pacific when women congregate together there are frequent loud outbursts of laughter. Due to language, I usually don’t understand the joke but the hilarity is infectious. In Kiribati it’s no different. Here there have also been moments when it has been impossible to contain our own impulse to laugh as our two [...] » Read More
Unlocking change for women- a powerful key…
Friday, March 8th, 2013So today is International Women’s Day and we women are feeling rightly chuffed about everything we’ve contributed to the world. As Mark Twain so neatly put it: “What would men be without women? Mighty scarce sir, mighty scarce.” Yes, we’re crucial alright! And yet you don’t have to look very far to realise that in [...] » Read More
One Song, One Hope: Partnership for women in the Pacific
Thursday, February 28th, 2013“Music paints pictures and often tells stories, All of it magic, all of it true! And all of the pictures and all of the stories All of the magic, the music is you” Many who know me will be aware I was raised on the ‘elevator’ tones of John Denver and as I spend time [...] » Read More
Small loans = big changes
Monday, June 25th, 2012Interested in how a micro-finance organisation works on the ground? Vience from our partner TLM in West Timor fills us in on the details. TLM is the development agency of the Evangelical Christian Church in Timor. How does TLM work? TLM operates in areas where access to financial services for the poor is limited. Through its [...] » Read More
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