What We Do: Establishing Livelihoods
All over the world people are stuck in an apparently endless cycle of poverty, with no way to provide for their families, and no way to improve their situation. Those who do have jobs sometimes make less than $1 a day, barely enough to survive.
These hardworking individuals are desperate for a chance to better themselves, and ADRA is giving it to them. ADRA knows that one of the best ways to boost people out of the cycle of poverty is by providing livelihoods. Through small loans of money or livestock, job training, and encouragement, ADRA gives men and women the ability to support themselves and their families.
ADRA’s small loan programs give families a chance at independence
ADRA is working to help individuals free themselves from a life of poverty and need.
Your gift makes it possible for ADRA to provide food, medicines and training that lead to a better life. Your gift enables families to move from survival to self-sufficiency!
Surely it is a gift from God Himself that we are able to share His abundant blessings in meeting the needs of others. Each of us can play a role in bringing His grace to those who are hurting, hungry, and helpless.
For communities destroyed by disasters, ADRA offers hope
After the Tsunami of 2004, ADRA responded with more than $36 million in emergency aid and rehabilitation of livelihoods and communities.
The work is not over yet. ADRA continues to work in the tsunami-affected communities as well as in other communities hit by disasters.
ADRA brings continued hope and rehabilitation to communities affected by disasters. Our programs give families and communities the chance to rebuild homes, businesses, and lives.
Through ADRA’s small loan program, you give a hand-up on the road to independence.
ADRA is Breaking the Chains of Poverty
1.4 billion people survive on less than $1 a day.
980 million of them are women and children.
Around the world, ADRA is targeting the root causes of extreme poverty to allow people to live in health and dignity.
A Sweet Venture
Making sweets brings sweet profits to some women from Aokoie, a Muslim community in Ranong Province, Thailand. The primary occupations in the area are fishing, merchandising and working in the rubber plantations. Vegetable gardens are secondary occupations. A small group of women began making sweets to sell in the village market as a way of earning additional income for their families, with each woman investing 500 baht ($16.87) as business capital. Lacking management skills and using traditional time intensive methods to produce the sweets, their profits were very slow in coming.
