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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Posts Tagged ‘microfinance’
Giving your heart to love and your hand to help
Monday, May 13th, 2013The Power of Women and Girls
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012The Power of Women and Girls was the topic for the second UnitingWorld lunch for members of the 13th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia. Lisa Meo is a Fijian Australian who advocates for women in theological education at various schools and churches in the Pacific Islands. She spoke about the inconsistencies between the [...] » 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
Indonesian entries deserve a ‘fair go’
Thursday, June 14th, 2012Not another knock at the door… it was becoming quite annoying! But this was really quite a serious business. Every year, just before the school year started, children from remote villages would come into Kupang to enroll. Living in poverty, they had no money to pay fees. With no cash in hand, many children were [...] » Read More
Unique opportunity to make your gift go further
Monday, May 21st, 2012Tweet This May and June, UnitingWorld Relief and Development is providing an opportunity for donations to make an even bigger, life-changing difference. Not only are donations to UnitingWorld’s Matching Gift Fund tax-deductible, they will be coupled with funding from the Australian Government under the AusAID-NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). The combined funds will assist UnitingWorld’s partners... Read More »
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