
Love Doesn’t Feed Her Children
Leticia loves her children.
But as hard as she works, they are always hungry.

Leticia loves her children.
But as hard as she works, they are always hungry.

Every gift in our Kids’ Gift Catalog was chosen just for kids.

When we share stories with you about the people and communities ADRA serves, it’s important to us that the unjust reality of life for our neighbors around the world is seen and never forgotten.

Meher grew up along the route of the famous Silk Road, which once made its way through his home country of Afghanistan.

ADRA is blessed to be able to honor refugees and all those who have been displaced, through our work every day.


The ADRA family has been overwhelmed with prayers, donations, and other support from our community of supporters across the country and around the world!

ADRA is blessed to meet amazing mothers in our work every day. These are the kind of mothers who would do anything, give up everything, and go anywhere for their children.


Daniel is a member of ADRA’s emergency support staff, serving at one of the centers welcoming refugees forced to flee the conflict in Ukraine.

When the war reached their hometown of Novomoskovsk, Dmytro Trebushkovand his wife faced an impossible choice: stay in the home they had built with their foster children or flee with nothing but fait

In today’s world, the line between natural and man-made crises is increasingly blurred — and the consequences are deeply personal.

Every person deserves the dignity of a safe toilet. Yet, in 2025, nearly half the world’s population still lives without one.

It is wonderful to connect about something so close to our hearts: the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In classrooms across Baalbek and Mount Lebanon, children who have fled war and hardship sit side by side with their Lebanese peers, opening books, reciting lessons, and rediscovering what it means to dream again. Behind every one of those hopeful faces stands a teacher — a steady, compassionate guide shaping futures even in the most uncertain times.

On the third Sabbath of every month, Terrina Williams tells the Children’s Story at Meadowbridge Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mechanicsville, Virginia. This year, Sabbath, June 21st, happened to be a special day—World Refugee Day.

With the sun blazing on the tin roof, I heard her tell about how she fled for her life. In the refugee settlement she came to, she saw no other options than to sell her body.

Across the world, millions of children are preparing to return to school—some carrying brand-new backpacks and pencils, others simply carrying the hope of a better future. At ADRA, we believe that education changes everything.

In the Middle East, where winter’s chill bites deeper for those who are displaced or living in poverty, one father’s quiet determination tells a powerful story about love, dignity, and survival

Each year, Shelly Bradley’s Sabbath School class would flip through ADRA’s Gift Catalog, choosing a project to fund by Christmas.