What We Do: Providing Food & Water
ADRA does more than just give food to hungry people.
By providing families with ways to grow their own gardens or increase the crop yields of their farms, ADRA helps people discover true food security. Families with a surplus of food are even able to improve their economic standing by selling the extra.
ADRA gives people the food, nutrition, and tools not just to survive—but to thrive.
Multiply Your Gift and Help End Hunger
Think about this: Every three seconds in developing countries, one child under the age of five dies from hunger-related causes. That means six million children every year!
What’s more, most of these deaths could be prevented. These children don’t all die of starvation; many of them die from diseases that take hold of their bodies that are weak from hunger.
Clean water is life — Help ADRA bring life to millions.
“No thank you. Today is not my turn to drink water.” — Ethiopian boy to ADRA employee
It's hard to believe, but clean, fresh water is difficult to find in many areas of the world. When water is available, it is often muddy and contaminated with bacteria, and children are usually the first to get sick and die from water-related diseases.
Give Malnourished Children Life in Africa
The shrill cry of a baby jarred the jogger back to reality. It was the last thing he expected to interrupt his early-morning run along the blue-green Indian Ocean waters that lapped gently against the white sands of Madagascar's Toamasina beach.
The First Drink of the Year
When you think about drought, Falanfay is the place you’re imagining. Water has been scarce for more than a decade. There are no visible clues of recent rains. The chronic problem of this community of all southeastern Somalia has forced people to look down, instead of up, for their water.
Becoming Healthy and Prosperous in Madagascar
As soon as R. Niels Marquardt, the U.S. ambassador to Madagascar, arrived at the small village, he sensed something was different about this farming community in rural Madagascar.
Two Worlds
Imagine spending over twenty years of your life completely isolated from the outside world. Gambat was sentenced in 1987 to one and a half years in prison for a minor offence. In order to survive he joined a prison gang. One day a gang fight broke out and he was implicated, the sentence was extended to nineteen years.
