{"id":20451,"date":"2021-02-12T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?p=20451"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:23:13","slug":"news-release-adra-helps-feed-more-than-16000-families-impacted-by-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/news-release-adra-helps-feed-more-than-16000-families-impacted-by-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-ecuador","title":{"rendered":"Comunicado de prensa: ADRA ayuda a alimentar a m\u00e1s de 16.000 familias afectadas por la pandemia de COVID-19 en Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women and Children in Five Provinces Receive Nutrition Assistance <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ECUADOR (February 12, 2021) – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the global humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, provided food assistance to 16,584 vulnerable families in COVID-19 affected provinces in Ecuador.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ADRA staff in Ecuador donates food vouchers to families in need from COVID-19 impacted communities.\u00a0 (Photo credit: ADRA in Ecuador)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pregnant women, lactating moms, and families with children under five years of age received food stamps, redeemable through a chain of supermarkets in the South American country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince the beginning of the pandemic, ADRA has mobilized resources in Ecuador and pledge its solidarity to provide food assistance to thousands of affected families. Thanks to the support of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), we have contributed to improving the nutrition of children and their families through healthy and nutritious food, the dissemination of education and prevention messages,\u201d says Javier Espejo, ADRA\u2019s country director in Ecuador. \u201cThis assistance came at a time when families needed it most. I express my gratitude to God, to our donors, and to the entire ADRA team for allowing us to fulfill our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADRA launched the project through funding assistance from the WFP and the USAID. The international humanitarian agency has established alliances with these trusted partners to deliver monetary cash transfers through nutritional support vouchers to families in need in Ecuador and other communities around the world. Beneficiary families from the Ecuadorian communities of Pichincha, Manab\u00ed, Los R\u00edos, Guayas and Santa Elena received a redeemable food coupon valued at $240.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexandra Velasco and her children are part of the more than 16,000 families who participated in ADRA’s\u00a0food assistance program. (Photo credit: ADRA in Ecuador)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen ADRA called me to pick-up the food voucher, I wanted to cry. This food assistance came in at an unexpected moment. Now I feel very grateful because I still have groceries in my small fridge, and I have food to give to my children,\u201d says Alexandra Velasco, food assistance program recipient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seg\u00fan la Ministry of Health in Ecuador<\/a>, there are *253,339 confirmed cases of COVID-19, *10,276 people who died from the virus and *4,692 people who died from causes related to the disease, reaching a total of *14,968 deaths in the context of the pandemic. (*These numbers are likely to change as more cases are reported.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADRA plans to continue implementing humanitarian assistance projects to support vulnerable communities during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The relief agency will continue working to promote preventive measures against COVID-19 through health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), food security, shelter, livelihoods, and human rights protection initiatives to help low-income and under-resourced families and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For details on ADRA\u2019s COVID-19 emergency response, visit ADRA.org\/coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow ADRA\u2019s response to COVID-19 in Ecuador on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> o Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los periodistas que deseen saber m\u00e1s sobre esta historia pueden enviar un correo electr\u00f3nico a press@adra.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acerca de 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":"

La Agencia Adventista de Desarrollo y Recursos Asistenciales (ADRA), el brazo humanitario global de la Iglesia Adventista del S\u00e9ptimo D\u00eda, proporcion\u00f3 asistencia alimentaria a 16.584 familias vulnerables en las provincias afectadas por el COVID-19 en Ecuador.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[911,609,786,284,1052,614,558,336],"tags":[741,774,500],"class_list":["post-20451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecuador","category-food-assistance","category-global","category-health","category-inter-america","category-news","category-nutrition","category-wash","tag-adventist-church","tag-covid-19","tag-usaid"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451","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=20451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45952,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions\/45952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}