ADRA donors like you have contributed to relief for multiple families in Syria in the aftermath of the earthquake. Jahidah Mohammed Eid al-Ali is a 50-year-old Syria women who is surviving in Syria alongside her husband (55) and several children and grandchildren. ADRA donors helped bring food baskets to families like Jahidah’s, who are currently living in collective shelter in Sports City Centre in Latakia. Jahida says that ADRA’s provision of food has helped her family “immensely,” and they are extremely grateful for your part in this assistance.
As we await further updates from Sudan, we wanted to remind you of the kind of the remarkable women you empower through your support.
Kelowna Wildfire 2023 News about the 2023 Canadian wildfires has been spreading like wildfire in its own way. Smoke from the Quebec fires in early June made headlines as they dramatically discoloured the sky in New York City. The sheer scale of the fires and the buzz surrounding them have even earned a designated Wikipedia entry. […]
As midsummer university graduation photos pop up across our social media feeds, we want to share some success stories with you, our donors. The stories of Tida and Naseang are just two examples of how your contributions to the Keep Girls Safe (KGS) project in Thailand are helping to break barriers to education for young women from vulnerable backgrounds.
Through your commitment to ADRA, you are part of bringing education to children in hard-to-reach and fragile places. But education is more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. It’s also learning about one’s value as a human. It’s learning, perhaps for the first time, of the inherent rights one is born with. This kind of education is just as life changing as that which happens in a classroom.
You, dear donor, have been contributing to the ongoing work of the Red Deer Soup Kitchen. Located in an Albertan urban center with significant poverty, it is a haven for people struggling through some of life’s darkest challenges.
This year has been a tumultuous one all around the world. But ADRA donors like you have empowered continuous response to some of the worst disasters that people have faced in 2023, including the earthquake in Syria.
Have you ever been stuck? If so, then you know the deep frustration that arises when everything you try fails to pull you out of the rut.
Sara Baptista could relate. At 22, Sara is the mother of two young boys. She worked hard farming her small plot of land in Mozambique to feed her family. But the harvest was never enough to last her family through the year. During the months of food shortages, Sara and her husband worked temporary jobs for neighbours in exchange for money or simple food like flour or dried cassava.
Hi! My name is Ray. I am delighted to join this incredible group of passionate teammates at ADRA. I’ve been here in Ontario for about a month (I moved from Montreal), and it is invigorating to be at the cutting edge of humanitarian work right here in Canada, where the need is great on so many fronts. We are now redoubling our efforts to bring awareness to the church membership and communities at large of ADRA’s important role in emergency preparedness/response and various forms of social assistance.
As military violence and civil conflict have broken out in Sudan, several surrounding eastern and north-eastern African nations are feeling the strain. Not only are refugees pouring into Egypt, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Central African Republic among others, but many of these nations are struggling to support these newly displaced people while … read more
