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Together in 2020

What YOU helped accomplished in 2020 If you want to help grant a wish before 2020 ends, now is your chance! To say the last twelve months have been challenging would be the understatement of the year. Millions have been sickened by the COVID-19 virus and many thousands have died.

Feed Hungry Families

3 Ways ADRA Fed Families in 2020

3 Ways ADRA Fed Families in 2020 Have you heard? We launched a new and special Giving Tuesday campaign that triples the impact of your donation to help feed hungry families. That means $1=$3, but only until Tuesday, December 1st.  Give Today 2020 has been a difficult year for so

Kenya: Response to Lack of Sufficient Food

Meet Asinyen Hunger and starvation is the reality for too many still. It’s a deadly cycle and only together, can we help fight end hunger.  “I don’t have any hope for the future,” Asinyen says. You see, five days ago, Asinyen received a small bag of rice from a friend

Kenya: ADRA Aids Hunger in a Refugee Camp

Hunger in the refugee camps: Gaudance’s Story Every month Gaudance receives a ration of food for her family. Her children carry the bags through the narrow, winding pathways to their tin and tarpaulin hut in Kakuma, Kenya’s largest refugee camp.  But even as they walk, they know the supply of

Madagascar: ADRA’s ASOTRY Project Teaching and Providing Food Security

Celebrating World Food Day! Today is World Food Day and we’re celebrating the plates and bellies ADRA donors have helped fill this year! ADRA donors keep projects alive all over the world that help feed hungry families every day. To celebrate, we’re sharing some “full belly” 2020 highlights below.  ASOTRY

Tunisia: One Woman’s Plight Becomes an Answer to Prayer

ADRA’s Unconditional Cash Project Provides Relief for a Family in Tunisia (TUNISIA) September 10, 2020 – Tunisia, located on the Mediterranean coast of Northwest Africa, was already suffering from a bad economy before COVID-19, but with the loss of jobs due to the pandemic, many people faced a financial crisis.

Lebanon: ADRA’s Experience and Response to Explosion

SILVER SPRING, MD (August 18, 2020) – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) delivered tons of nutritional provisions on a special humanitarian flight from Slovakia as part of its expanded emergency response to help children and families affected by the devasting August 4 Beirut explosion. This latest assistance is helping

Lebanon: Beirut Explosion Survivor and Responder

Meet Eliane Abikheir Beirut Explosion Survivor and Responder Read about her experience during the explosion and how she is working as a first responder to help families affected.  On August 4, a catastrophic explosion blasted through Beirut. Lebanon was already in a critical situation with high unemployment rates and rising

Kenya: ADRA Helps to Upkeep Jobs Through COVID-19

Samuel Onang’o, a disabled father of three, lives with his family in Kibera, Kenya. It has now been over three months, and Samuel has had to learn to survive alone in his one-room, tin-walled house. As the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, lockdowns and closures of schools and

Schools Out, Funs In, Summer Rules!

Hear ye, hear ye, the most anticipated time of the year has finally arrived, and no, I’m not talking about Christmas. I’ll give you a few clues: it’s a season where the bright yellow sun casts fun shadows for us to chase after; the local pools begin to sparkle with

Empowering Refugees: Ahmed’s Journey of Learning Against All Odds

Meet Ahmed, an 11-year-old refugee who fled the war in Syria with his family a decade ago, seeking safety in Lebanon. Ahmed and his family now live in a makeshift tent made of tarpaulins and various scraps, near a cashew nut farm owned by their landlord. During school breaks, Ahmed

The flight of Ahmed Mohamed 

(May 21, 2024) Pastor Ahmed Mohamed knelt by the side of the dusty road where he, his wife and three children had paused to rest. “God save us!” he prayed. “How can I preach Your word, if I am dead?” He looked at his family huddled under a lone tree

The Good Hygiene Jingle

Before eating   Before cooking   Before giving food to the child   Wash your hands!    It is not uncommon for Balilo Pedro Papy to hear those lyrics on the air while working in communities in the Kitangua health zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  After going to the latrine, Mom

Ingrid’s journey of Survival by Resiliency

Ingrid Flores is a single woman living with her mother and young son in the dry corridor of Honduras where more than half of the population is living in substandard conditions. For years she lived with an abusive husband until one day he beat her and left her lying on

Bucaramanga? 

By James Standish “Bucaramanga?”, my friend Mike chuckles1, “nope, never heard of it – but I’m amused to learn that a place called Boo·kaa·ruh·maang·guh even exists!” Mike sounds it out one syllable at a time as we’re sitting in a bagel shop in midtown Manhattan, not too far from the

Highlighting Resilience: ADRA’s Emergency Response Efforts in 2023

It’s been reported that global fatalities have increased in 2023 by 30% compared to the previous year due to floods, wildfires, cyclones, storms, landslides, and other disasters. ADRA has been on the frontlines helping communities worldwide who are grappling with the aftermath of disasters and emergencies.  In 2023, ADRA responded

Lighting up Kusi’s Life for MLK

Martin Luther King, Jr. described poverty as a monstrous octopus that “projects its nagging, prehensile tentacles in lands and villages all over the world.” This is the beast ADRA Connections volunteers are fighting. ADRA Connections volunteers are partnering with communities to fight this monster. Just ask Kusi. Kusi is part

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