Thailand: ADRA’s Mission to Keep Girls Safe
More than a year ago, a bright-eyed and slender nine-year-old girl named Malee* was offered refuge at Keep Girls Safe (KGS), a shelter in the rural district of Chiang Rai, run by ADRA in Thailand. “Her mom didn’t want her and local villagers couldn’t keep her,” said Sunita, KGS project coordinator who recalled Malee’s first […]
A Closer Walk
A Closer Walk takes you to the humanitarian frontlines and deep into the communities where poverty and crisis are devastating lives. In this episode, you’ll meet refugees from South Sudan in Uganda and the ADRA staff working to serve them in dire circumstances. The entire series of A Closer Walk is available to watch online.
Yemen: How ADRA’s Assistance lets Children Be Children
Three months ago, Esa was wasting away from a lack of food. Due to nationwide instability, there was little in the small Yemeni village of Al-Noba for the one-year-old to eat. Though the rest of his family also suffered from hunger, little Esa suffered most of all. His arms were thin, his baby fat was […]
ADRA Connections Offers Service Scholarships to Young Adults to Volunteer Overseas
SILVER SPRING, MD (November 12, 2018)– The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)’s global volunteer program ADRA Connections is launching a new service scholarship that will allow thousands of young people in the U.S. to be more active through volunteerism and become agents of change to contribute to the development of communities abroad. “We want to […]
