{"id":18943,"date":"2020-07-10T14:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T14:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?p=18943"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:12:01","slug":"news-release-adra-grants-help-canadian-adventists-meet-covid-19-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/news-release-adra-grants-help-canadian-adventists-meet-covid-19-needs","title":{"rendered":"News Release: ADRA Grants Help Canadians Meet COVID-19 Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

(CANADA) July 10, 2020 \u2013 Nearly three dozen Seventh-day Adventist churches and organizations across Canada received grants from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the church\u2019s global humanitarian arm, to expand their community services during the COVID-19 pandemic. ADRA in Canada, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada and Adventist Community Services of the North American Division, partnered to provide the grants, which are expected to total nearly $400,000 (CAD), equivalent to $300,000 (USD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith 44 percent of Canadian households reporting lost work due to the coronavirus shutdown, we are seeing unprecedented levels of need across the country,\u201d says Daniel Saugh, ADRA programs manager in Canada. \u201cThe grants will help churches feed the hungry and minister to people who are hurting during this time of isolation and uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 33 grants awarded so far were used primarily to distribute food and hygiene products. For instance, the Staff of Life Food Bank in Scarborough, Ontario, operated by the Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church, used its ADRA grant to provide clients with personal care kits containing hard-to-find supplies such as toilet paper, disinfectant spray and antibacterial soap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One grant supplied personal protective equipment to a nursing home, while another purchased tablets for a nursing home so that elderly residents could connect with their families. Three of the grants provided food or mental health support to vulnerable First Nations communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grace, a Nova Scotia resident, is grateful for the food she received.
(Image courtesy: Parker Street Food and Furniture Bank<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost people don\u2019t think that food banks are on the front line, but we are because we are meeting a need during this crisis,\u201d says Cynthia Louis-Smith, director of donor relations for the Parker Street Food and Furniture Bank in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which received a $25,000 grant to distribute food hampers. \u201cFood banks, including Parker Street, are able to fill that gap because of support from our supporters and organizations, like ADRA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grant program has assisted Adventists in showing Jesus\u2019 care and compassion to their communities during these difficult times. \u201cWe have helped more than 20,000 people and counting across the country in response to the increased needs caused by COVID-19,\u201d Saugh says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADRA\u2019s grants in Canada are part of the organization\u2019s global COVID-19 response, which includes aid to approximately 2.7 million families in more than 70 countries. ADRA\u2019s emergency relief activities include distributing food, hygiene products and cash vouchers to people in need as well as training frontline workers and providing medical supplies to hospitals serving vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help with ADRA\u2019s ongoing response in Canada to the COVID-19 pandemic, visit adra.ca\/covid-19-response<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para consultas de periodistas, env\u00ede un correo electr\u00f3nico a press@adra.org<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acerca de ADRA <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

En Agencia Adventista de Desarrollo y Recursos Asistenciales<\/a> es el brazo humanitario mundial de la Iglesia Adventista del S\u00e9ptimo D\u00eda que presta servicio en 118 pa\u00edses. Su labor empodera a las comunidades y cambia vidas en todo el mundo proporcionando desarrollo comunitario sostenible y ayuda en caso de cat\u00e1strofes. El prop\u00f3sito de ADRA es servir a la humanidad para que todos puedan vivir como Dios manda. Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n, visite ADRA.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acerca de los Servicios Comunitarios Adventistas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Servicios comunitarios adventistas<\/a> es el ministerio oficial de extensi\u00f3n comunitaria de la Iglesia Adventista en los territorios de la Divisi\u00f3n Norteamericana, que comprende Canad\u00e1, los Estados Unidos de Am\u00e9rica, Guam y Micronesia, y las Bermudas. ACS sirve a la persona en su totalidad, un concepto conocido como ministerio hol\u00edstico cuya misi\u00f3n es \u201cservir a las comunidades en nombre de Cristo\u201d.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly three dozen Seventh-day Adventist churches and organizations across Canada received grants from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the church\u2019s global humanitarian arm, to expand their community services during the COVID-19 pandemic. ADRA in Canada, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada and Adventist Community Services of the North American Division, partnered to provide the grants, which are expected to total nearly $400,000 (CAD), equivalent to $300,000 (USD).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[804,609,284,783],"tags":[741,1091,774,1173,1169,709,1095],"class_list":["post-18943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-food-assistance","category-health","category-north-america","tag-adventist-church","tag-adventist-community-services-acs","tag-covid-19","tag-food-distribution","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-psychosocial-support-mhpss","tag-north-american-division-nad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18943"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46326,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions\/46326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}