Partners Relief and Development - New Zealand

Partners is involved in these 3 main areas: Emergency Relief, Sustainable Development, and Strengthening Families through a multitude of projects around the world.

Emergency Relief

Because help in times of crisis gives hope and saves lives, we provide emergency and short-term provision of food, shelter materials, and basic survival necessities for children, their families, and communities during times of acute crisis. Emergency relief is essential when war or social breakdown occurs and leaves children vulnerable to suffering and exploitation.

It’s why our supporters quickly responded to the massive displacement of Rohingya from Myanmar, delivering tarps to give them shelter from the weather and medicine for the sick; and why they were there to meet families newly liberated from ISIS in Mosul with food and clean water.

Sustainable Development

Because helping a family solve their own struggles gives freedom, Partners works to enable families to provide for themselves by initiating agricultural, animal husbandry and cottage industry projects for sustainable livelihood. By helping communities and families help themselves, we invest in the basic daily needs of children affected by conflict and oppression. Additionally, access to healthcare is a primary component of a child’s future. That’s why we train medics, equip clinics, assist hospitals, and run community health care programs: so that every child can live a healthy life.

Strengthening Families

Because children in healthy and financially-secure families are less likely to be trafficked, we endeavor to strengthen families and provide safe nurturing environments for children to grow, through school attendance and the development of church and social institutions. When families are involved in these, we see a drop in the number of children sold, kidnapped, or otherwise trafficked into prostitution and slavery each year.