News Release: ADRA Responds as Five Tropical Storms Hit Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is responding with cash transfers, seeds for crop replacement and food to sustain as many people as possible who have been affected by the succession of storms that recently swept across parts of Southeast Asia.
News Release: Adventist Foundation and ADRA Respond to Earthquake That Rocks Turkey and Greece
On October 30, a powerful earthquake struck the Aegean Sea rattling the countries of Turkey and Greece. It was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul. Turkey and Greece are located on or near many active fault lines, where earthquakes are fairly common in the region, according to the US Geological Survey.
News Release: ADRA Responds to Severe Flooding in Cambodia
Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 which reached Haiti in March, a state of emergency has been declared three times limiting travel and closing schools, churches, factories, and airports.
Madagascar: ADRA’s ASOTRY Project Teaching and Providing Food Security
Today is World Food Day and we’re celebrating the plates and bellies ADRA donors have helped fill this year!
News Release: ADRA Aids Victims of Azerbaijan and Armenia Conflict
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is assisting victims of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan through its global humanitarian arm, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA).
News Release: Cyclone Amphan Claims 10 Lives as It Wreaked Havoc on Bangladesh
Amphan, the most powerful cyclone to hit Bangladesh this year with wind speeds of 160 kph (100 mph), made landfall on May 20 along the city’s coastal and southwestern districts. Thousands of houses were destroyed, poultry farms were devastated, thousands of trees uprooted, roads were left nearly impassable, and countless shelters were lost.
News Release: ADRA Provides Learning Solutions in Myanmar, Despite Closed Schools
When the Covid19-pandemic was declared in March, many of the schools and vocational education centres ADRA is partnering with, were closed in order to prevent further spread of the virus. But opportunities for learning using a phone or a tablet can’t be stopped by a pandemic.
News Release: ADRA Steps Up U.S. and Global COVID-19 Operations to Aid Affected Communities and Frontline Health Workers
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is serving more than 2.4 million households around the world where lives have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mozambique: How ADRA Taught a Community to be Able to Help Each Other
China Luis Guente shares his “house” with his wife and five children. He was living in one of the lowest lying areas around Caia when Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique.
ADRA Commits to Achieving Objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees
On December 17 and 18, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) joined more than 2,000 humanitarian practitioners and member states at the first-ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland to find transforming solutions to the world refugee crisis, benefitting both refugees and their host communitie