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title: Tearfund Ireland | pandemic (6)
description: pandemic | Get news, updates and info from Tearfund Ireland! (6)
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![Ethiopian Woman Smiling at Camera](https://blog.tearfund.ie/hs-fs/hubfs/social-suggested-images/info.tearfund.iehubfs20210727_Tearfund_Ethiopia_Nafkot%20Gebeyehu-05.jpg?width=2000&height=1333&name=info.tearfund.iehubfs20210727_Tearfund_Ethiopia_Nafkot%20Gebeyehu-05.jpg "Ethiopian Woman Smiling at Camera")

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## Posts about pandemic (6):

![Covid-19, update from our partners](https://blog.tearfund.ie/hubfs/Lebanon%202018%20-%20Tearfund%20images%20-%20distribution%20of%20milk%20and%20diapers%20for%20Syrian%20refugee%20children%20(7).jpg)

At the heart of Tearfund is our calling to ‘remember the poor’. For Tearfund staff, it didn’t take long for us to realise that beyond the disruption of our day to day working lives in our Dublin office our overseas partners were facing a much bigger problem as Covid-19 made landfall in some of poorest countries on the planet.  Our partners are working in Ethiopia, Cambodia and Uganda and with Syrian refugees in Lebanon who are densely packed into makeshift shelters waiting for peace and the possibility to return home. These are countries with much fewer resources than Ireland to face this pandemic – for example in Uganda it is estimated that there are more Government Ministers than ICU beds.

![Holding Onto Hope](https://blog.tearfund.ie/hubfs/tatenda-mapigoti-pjShYM0crE8-unsplash.jpg)

> * ‘I pray that God the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.’*

![...Covid 19 will impact...the most](https://blog.tearfund.ie/hubfs/RS153805_LBN231-Hiba%20Hajj%20Omar-2020-COVID-19_Awareness-CLOSEUP%20of%20the%20leaflet%20distributed-IMG_6297-lpr%20Medair%20Jan%202020-1.jpg)

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<https://blog.tearfund.ie/covid19tearfundresponse>

28/03/20 17:18

## [Covid-19, update from our partners](https://blog.tearfund.ie/covid19tearfundresponse)

 By [Niamh Daly](https://blog.tearfund.ie/author/niamh-daly)

At the heart of Tearfund is our calling to ‘remember the poor’. For Tearfund staff, it didn’t take long for us to realise that beyond the disruption of our day to day working lives in our Dublin office our overseas partners were facing a much bigger problem as Covid-19 made landfall in some of poorest countries on the planet. Our partners are working in Ethiopia, Cambodia and Uganda and with Syrian refugees in Lebanon who are densely packed into makeshift shelters waiting for peace and the possibility to return home. These are countries with much fewer resources than Ireland to face this pandemic – for example in Uganda it is estimated that there are more Government Ministers than ICU beds.

[Read More](https://blog.tearfund.ie/covid19tearfundresponse)

<https://blog.tearfund.ie/holdingontohope>

28/03/20 17:17

## [Holding Onto Hope](https://blog.tearfund.ie/holdingontohope)

 By [Katie Lynch](https://blog.tearfund.ie/author/katie-lynch)

‘I pray that God the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.’

[Read More](https://blog.tearfund.ie/holdingontohope)

<https://blog.tearfund.ie/covid19>

14/03/20 19:20

## [...Covid 19 will impact...the most](https://blog.tearfund.ie/covid19)

 By [Tearfund Ireland](https://blog.tearfund.ie/author/tearfund-ireland)

Dear friends and supporters of Tearfund,

[Read More](https://blog.tearfund.ie/covid19)

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