Our Vision

A world without poverty and oppression, where everyone has access to sustainable livelihoods and is empowered to care for each other and the earth, encouraging peaceful and just relationships.

Our Mission

As followers of Jesus, BANZAid works to restore life and transform communities, partnering with the poor and marginalised to alleviate poverty, facilitate sustainable development, and advocate for peace and justice.

Our Purpose

We will work by supporting partners in developing countries, building their capacity to help their own people. We will work to create awareness in New Zealand about aid and development issues.
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Dolly Tripura using her new stoveOne of the objectives of the Chandpur TCDC project is ‘Care for the Environment’.  The aim is to preserve and utilise a better quality and more sustainable natural environment. This will help villages be more clean, safe and beautiful, providing a better life than mass migration into the slums of Dhaka city.  As part of this the project has also focused on better care and use of natural resources (eg: ponds, trees), plus better practices for waste minimisation and disposal.

In March 2012, after some investigation, the project decided to trial Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) supplied and installed by Grameen Shakti.  Dolly Tripura tells her ‘Most Significant Change’ story, resulting from the supply and use of the improved cooking stove...

My name is Dolly Tripura. I live in the Uttor Balia village. Previously I cooked on a traditional village mud stove. The smoke hurt my eyes and my breathing. More fuel (wood) and more time was required. My village kitchen was very dark and unclean due to smoke.

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