ADRA Albania Launches Literacy and Integration Centre for Roma
08 October 2012 Fushe-Kruje, Albania [Lydia Weidner, tedNEWS] ADRA Albania has successfully launched the "Reflect! Act! Integrate" Training Centre in Fushe-Kruje, 25 km from Albania's capital, Tirana. Kindly sponsored by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Austria, the projects aims to combat illiteracy among the largely marginalised Roma populations.…
Read MoreNobel Peace Prize Winners Inspired by ADRA
13 December 2011 Oslo, Norway [Geir Olav Lisle; tedNEWS] Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee has provided ADRA Norway and ADRA Liberia with new perspectives on the loss of our people in Liberia back in 2003. Last Friday before the Nobel ceremony Leymah Gbowee and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf set aside their time and…
Read MoreIn Japan, Adventist Church Intensifies Earthquake Relief Effort
24 Mar 2011, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN] The Seventh-day Adventist Church continues to rally support in the wake of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that stuck northeastern Japan March 11, spawning a tsunami and widespread devastation. An Adventist Development and Relief Agency volunteer fills bowls with traditional Japanese miso soup for displaced persons at an…
Read MoreRecord Earthquake Strikes Japan: ADRA Responds
11 March 2011 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Julio C. Muñoz, ADRA] A powerful 8.9-magnitude earthquake shook the island nation of Japan damaging infrastructure and triggering a massive tsunami that swept through Japan’s north-eastern coast, killing hundreds of people according to initial media reports. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is responding, coordinating efforts and assessing the needs…
Read MoreADRA to Cut Staff at World Headquarters
22 February 2011 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN] The president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency today announced the agency will cut staff and adjust its management structure at its international headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. In an e-mail, President Rudi Maier said the move follows three years of "gradual decline" in…
Read MoreSanitarium Responds to Christchurch Crisis
25 February 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand [Jarrod Stackelroth, Record] In the wake of the devastation wreaked by the earthquake in Christchurch, the Adventist Church and its entities have jumped into action, in an effort to help in any way they can. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA NZ) has been working closely with the civil…
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