ABOUT US

La Mai Coffee is being imported into Australia from Thailand by Ritual Coffee (www.ritualcoffee.com.au) through Bright Hope World New Zealand.

Bright Hope World New Zealand is a private, Christian based, relief and development organisation which is based in Christchurch.

Bright Hope World was started in the nineties by Rob and Heather Purdue. Rob was a businessman who specialised in financial management and property investment.

However, a trip to Fiji for a week to work with poor, tribal people changed his life. It stirred a passion for helping the less fortunate.

Bright Hope World was launched in 1992 as a low cost, grass roots organisation based on partnerships with indigenous people living in the poorest areas of the world.

"We are unashamedly field driven. The needs of our partners come first. That is our core value as a mission", Rob Purdue.

In Australia Bright Hope World Inc, a small independent non-profit Incorporated Association based in Tasmania, partners with, supports & shares resources with Bright Hope World New Zealand and is involved in administering, and raising funds for, partnerships with the poor.

Today Bright Hope World partnerships are in over 20 countries, directly impacting over 5,000 families, with over 3,000 orphaned and vulnerable children being cared for and educated. Bright Hope partnerships touch more than 40,000 people per year.

Bright Hope World is committed to helping those living in extreme poverty, who earn less than $1 a day.

We do this by focusing on Sustainable Development, Christian Community, and Relief In Crisis.

We are committed to using donations as cost effectively as possible. We do this out of respect for the poor, it is their right to get as much as possible and our responsibility to deliver as much as possible. This is achieved through partnerships based on mutual trust and integrity and on the basis of clear understandings. These understandings are usually revisited and re-established annually.

Bright Hope World prefers to use the term partnership, rather than project. We understand that most people engage on a project basis, but we try not to be picky over the use of a word. To us, partnership indicates a long term engagement and friendship between the partners. We do not go into a place looking for something to do, we go into a place looking for someone who is doing something good, and we develop a relationship that sometimes emerges into an agreement to share resources.

In our partnerships we:

• Assist families, widows and orphaned children
• Encourage people to be independent
• Support the initiatives of local churches and leaders
• Are financially accountable
• Respect and honour local leadership
• Visit regularly
• Support the leaders as well as the project
• Attempt to have strong friendships with key people
• Deal with a group of leaders, not just an individual

To find out more about Bright Hope World visit our website.