Working in 50 countries, UK Christian relief and development agency Tearfund is the founding member of both the Disasters Emergency Committee and the Micah Network. The organization’s calling is to go places where help is badly needed to assist in rebuilding poor communities and end poverty. 

The group was created out of the United Nations’ Evangelical Refugee Fund and the Evangelical Alliance (EA). It originally started as The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund Committee with George Hoffman...