What We Do: Responding to Emergencies
In the wake of emergencies such as wars, hurricanes, famines, floods, or earthquakes thousands are forced out of their homes and left destitute. Often, they lack basic necessities like food, water, and shelter.
ADRA works to prevent further lose of life by responding quickly to evaluate the greatest needs, and then developing plans to get help to the areas where it is needed most. Often, ADRA coordinates with local governments to provide medical care, food, water, and shelter to victims of tragedies.
In the midst of civil conflicts ADRA is there, providing aid to those affected on both sides.
ADRA knows that these victims need more than just a rapid response, that’s why ADRA also establishes long-term programs to help affected areas recover.
Bring Healing to Survivors
Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, is mourning the loss of more than 200,000 individuals after a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. More than 1 million are homeless, many of them children.
ADRA’s Annual Disaster and Famine Relief Drive Brings Hope and Restoration
The Disaster and Famine Relief Offering helps us to replenish our fund that allows us to respond quickly and effectively around the world when God’s children cry out for care and compassion.
ADRA is committed to meeting the arch of God’s love as it bends toward the poor and the disenfranchised.
Your contribution helps us continue critical work in Haiti and other areas struck by natural disaster and unfortunate circumstance.
ADRA is on the ground, providing for immediate relief in the wake of Haiti earthquake
ADRA is working quickly in Haiti to provide immediate emergency relief to the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.
Your gift makes it possible for ADRA to provide evaluation and emergency support relief to the survivors of this devastating disaster.
Please donate now to help support emergency relief efforts.
Photo Credit: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Montreal La Presse, Ivanoh Demers
The suffering and vulnerable need you
Wars, disasters, famine.
In an instant, families lose everything; even loved ones are taken from them.
When the unthinkable happens, ADRA is there.
ADRA Delivers Increased Aid in Southern Myanmar
On May 14, ADRA finalized a cooperative...
Hamid and the Mitsubishi
A sea of little faces looked up at me offering a "Kodak moment." One little shy face of a small boy dressed in his long white jalabia, now no longer sparking white, attracted my attention. I went down on my haunches in front of him and in my broken Arabic, asked his name and whether I could take his photo. His name was Hamid and the coy smile was consent for me to photograph him.
I noticed that he had his little toy truck with him. At first gaze it looked like a pile of scrap metal. When I focused my camera on it, I noticed more detail. It was made from empty tomato cans rescued from a garbage dump somewhere. I could make out the front windscreen. Then I focused on the wheels. They were blue in color and were obviously cut from an old pair of rubber thongs, sometimes called "slip-slops" or "flip-flops." The wheels were far from round and I wondered how he could even get them to roll. I gave Hamid a smile and asked him whether his truck was a Mercedes Benz or a Mitsubishi. His immediate answer was, "Mitsubishi."
Hope Rising
“I haven’t had any time to cry,” the young teen confided. “Until now. Today, I will cry.”
For many Haitians caught in the trauma of the 7.0 earthquake, which struck on January 12, it has taken weeks for the flood of emotions to really come out. Overnight, Haiti became a nation described as a place, “where everyone has lost someone.” With overwhelming destruction all around them, and the weighty loss of homes, jobs, family and friends within them, it seems that only their determination and a drive for survival kept them going. February 12, the one-month anniversary of the earthquake, was Haiti's National Day of Mourning, a day fashioned by the Haitian government as an opportunity for the nation to grieve and begin to heal.
Ice Cream Kisses
It was the last place I expected to hear a child calling my name; but as I turned I saw my nine-year-old friend, Mala, running up the dirt path behind me. I was trekking through the middle of an internally displaced persons camp in Carrefour, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Each night, it became home to nearly 15,000 people, including Mala. I had met her a couple days earlier when she was getting water, but was still surprised she recognized me and remembered my name. Her mother had sent her on an errand to buy supplies from a small shop. But like most activities involving kids, it had been interrupted to...well... go potty. It was this diversion that caused our paths to intersect.
Kdhiswari’s Escape
She escaped death several times during the past two years. She had to flee her country and beloved parents in the middle of a civil war. She abandoned all her belongings, leaving them in the hands of those who bombed her village. She now lives in a shelter with less than the minimum provisions necessary to live decently. She has a sweet and tender smile and considers herself lucky. She is a refugee.
ADRA Bridges Save Nearly 900 Lives During Cyclone Nargis
As the high winds of Cyclone Nargis battered southern Myanmar’s delta region in May 2008, and high tidal waves and floodwaters covered low-lying areas, hundreds of people flocked to at least 22 ADRA bridges that had been constructed months before to link isolated communities in the Pyinsalu Sub-Township, a patchwork of rivers and islands on the extreme southern edge of Labutta Township.Nearly 900 people were saved from tidal waves and flooding in the Pyinsalu islands, located on the southern coast of the Irrawaddy Delta, by standing on bridges built by ADRA. One structure alone, the Lay Yin Kwin Bridge, which measures 140 feet in length, held 145 people for several hours, while the storm waters rose and then receded.
