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 as its head. It got registered as a charitable group on March 6, 1973. In 2008 the Tearfund Ireland was launched and works as a sister organization of Tearfund UK. This charitable institution is a member of coalitions like The Stop AIDS Campaign, The Make Poverty History Campaign, The Trade Justice Movement, The Stop Climate Chaos Campaign, The European Network on Debt and Development.

Tearfund works closely with local churches and disaster response teams. They strongly believe that the local church is a powerful vessel of transformation in communities. They recognize the deeply interconnected material and spiritual needs of people and they closely work with these churches to meet those needs.