SILVER SPRING, MD (November 4, 2020) \u2013 Two aid relief workers employed by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, along with an unidentified person, were released on November 3 by anonymous captors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The three were returning from the Mulongwe refugee camp in eastern DRC\u2019s South Kivu province when they were abducted and held against their will. The group\u2019s driver was the fourth person abducted but was released soon after. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADRA worked closely with local authorities to communicate with the abductors and remained in touch with family members. After four days, all three remaining hostages were released unharmed and transferred to the hospital for a health evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are extremely relieved to have secured the safe return of our workers,\u201d says Michael Kruger, ADRA\u2019s president. \u201cWe are very grateful to God for his safeguard over them, and to the local authorities, and our ADRA team who assisted in this risky mission. While this is good news, attacks on humanitarian workers remain high, a situation that is not only affecting our staff, but also the communities we serve. We will continue to review and tighten our security measures to ensure the protection and safety of all our relief workers so that we can continue to serve and assist so many vulnerable families.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the second reported attack on ADRA workers in the DRC since 2009, which at the time resulted in the killing of an ADRA employee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2019, attacks against aid workers globally surpassed all previous records: a total of 483 relief workers were attacked and 124 kidnapped, according to Humanitarian Outcomes\u2019 Aid Worker Security Database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADRA, as part of the global humanitarian and faith-based community, condemns these attacks and calls for accountability for perpetrators and justice for survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADRA has been active in the DRC since the mid-1990s providing support for returning refugees through the distribution of shelters, non-food items, the advocacy of land tenure rights, and served as a key player in minimizing the spread of the Ebola outbreak equipping out-of-reach communities through hygiene and sanitation awareness. ADRA in DRC also established partnerships with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education to build health clinics and schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
SOBRE ADRA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n La Agencia Adventista de Desarrollo y Recursos Asistenciales es el brazo humanitario internacional 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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dos cooperantes empleados por la Agencia Adventista de Desarrollo y Recursos Asistenciales, junto con una persona no identificada, fueron liberados el 3 de noviembre por captores an\u00f3nimos en la Rep\u00fablica Democr\u00e1tica del Congo (RDC). <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[807,590,614,617],"tags":[1069,1023,355,1025],"class_list":["post-19709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dr-congo","category-emergency","category-news","category-statement","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-non-food-items-nfis","tag-refugees","tag-shelter-kits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709","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=19709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46278,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709\/revisions\/46278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}