La Mai Coffee is imported into New Zealand by Global Bridges, which is the trading arm of Bright Hope World.

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Bright Hope World is a Christian based, humanitarian organisation based in New Zealand. It has listed charitable status with the New Zealand government. Bright Hope World was started in the nineties by Rob and Heather Purdue in Christchurch. Rob was a businessman and 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.

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​For 25 years Rob had helped with well-known charities and got involved himself in cross-cultural mission work, but something wasn’t quite right. He watched with concern the increasing amount of money going into overheads and administration, the inappropriate delivery of aid and relief, the waste of resources, and the lack of real partnership, so he decided to start something different.

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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", says Rob.

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​Today Bright Hope World is established in about 30 countries, directly impacting over 17,000 families, has over 5,000 orphaned and vulnerable children being cared for and educated and indirectly touches more than 50,000 people per year.

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The key concept behind the work Bright Hope World does is partnership. Everything we do is within the context of partnership. We find the best of the best; the exceptional people who have a compelling vision to transform their communities. We find the people who are already doing good work among the poorest of the poor, and we help them to develop and grow it over time. So, in essence, we are not the source of the 'big ideas' but our team works very closely and relationally with our partners to help guide their vision to fruition. 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

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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 clear understandings. These understandings are usually revisited and re-established annually.​

 

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