For over 20 years, Victoria Cares has been a lifeline for individuals and families struggling to make ends meet in the Victoria community. Affordable housing is a significant challenge in the area, particularly for students and refugees. Victoria Cares has been instrumental in providing support to those facing this hardship.
Hurricane Beryl Response Update Compassion In The Face of Disaster With hurricane season beginning early, are you ready to demonstrate compassion in action? The word “unprecedented” has become one of the most striking descriptors for Hurricane Beryl. Various outlets have noted that higher-than-normal surface temperatures in the Caribbean Sea precipitated this storm – kicking off […]
You have been empowering our national program team to plan for significant upcoming projects. ADRA recently hired new regional program managers to assist in the implementation of your vital work across Canada. That team has been steadily developing new programming – the Seeds of Change project.
Your support has brought the TOGETHER project to a small village in the Preah Vihear province of Cambodia and helped to train communities in facilitation skills on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).
ADRA has aided affected families in Ukraine thanks to your support. One of these families is a husband, wife, and their son. Valentina tells her story of having to leave their home and life behind as the fighting reaches their small town of Grodivka, near the Donetsk region.
In Orono, ON (just north of ADRA Canada’s office), the Migrant Worker Ministry (MWM) works to support migrant workers involved in Canada’s seasonal agricultural workforce.
During our Easter campaign in 2023, you learned about Aissa – a 15-year-old girl in Niger who’s involvement in the BRIGHT project helped her reignite her education journey.
Your continued support for ADRA has been building stronger connections to families in Yemen. Recently, ADRA staff travelled to Yemen to visit project sites in person.
Your continued support for ADRA has encouraged ongoing support for Canadians in challenging circumstances, with some churches in Canada repurposing leftover funds from previous ADRA projects to serve people in their communities.
This current month, March of 2024, will be the last month of a project started in December of 2022 supporting drought relief in Somalia. Though the beginning of this year saw some rain, it did not do much to ameliorate the persistent drought conditions in the East-African nation. A stunning 7.7 million people, almost half the Somalian population, rely on humanitarian aid and protection to survive. This has been the second extension of the project, and has seen support extended to previously unreached families, including in the state of Puntland.
