Syria: Child Refugee Yearns For a Childhood

Meet Amira, a girl whose childhood was taken from her by bombs and bullets. After fleeing her home in Syria due to the ongoing war, Amira became a child refugee. “For years now, we have been living in tents in this place called a refugee camp,” Amira says. Despite escaping the hardships of war, life […]

ADRA Commits to Achieving Objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees

SILVER SPRING, MD (December 18, 2019) – 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 communities.  More than […]

The Adventist Church and Its Agency, ADRA, Make Public Appeal to Help Out of School Children Worldwide

One million signatures needed to ensure 262 million young people not in school receive quality and equitable education  SILVER SPRING, MD(October 14, 2019) – The Seventh-day Adventist Church and its international humanitarian agency, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), announced today a new global campaign, “Every Child. Everywhere. In School.” The joint campaign is […]