ADRA

DR CONGO: In eastern DRC, ADRA provided emergency relief for more than 6,000 people in the war-weary North Kivu province after nearly one million people were displaced from their homes due to a violent uprising between the Congolese army and the rebel group National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP).

MOZAMBIQUE: In coastal Mozambique, ADRA is improving food access for more than 100,000 rural Mozambicans through a three-year income generation project that will increase crop sales and productivity, improve health and nutrition, create better access to clean water and sanitation facilities, and strengthen communities' resilience to disaster situations within the targeted regions. The project is scheduled to be completed in July 2011.

SUDAN: Four years after the end of the Sudanese civil war, ADRA has reintegrated more than 16,200 returnees back to the South, through its six way stations, providing shelter, food, and resettlement orientation for individuals and families returning home from the North and outside of the country. Once resettled, returned villagers are interviewed by ADRA teams to assess their current needs and well-being.

TANZANIA/KENYA: In the Lake Victoria region of Tanzania and Kenya, ADRA has extended its five-year Abstinence and Behavior Change for Youth program to reach an additional 72,000 youth with life-saving HIV education and prevention methods. The project was originally targeted to benefit 500,000 youth between the ages of 10 and 24 in each country.

ZIMBABWE: As part of a multi-pronged effort to turn the tide on the deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, ADRA has provided health and hygiene education, clean water, jerry cans, water treatment tablets, disinfectants and medical supplies for residents near Harare, and Bulawayo, and in the eastern Manicaland province. Nearly 61,000 have benefited from the campaign.

MALAWI: ADRA recently received an award for "Radio Play of the Year” for its radio program promoting HIV/AIDS prevention, personal responsibility, and healthy family relations. The radio program, titled Tikuferanji, (or "Why are we dying?") in the Malawian national language, has also been voted the best advocacy program in Malawi, on both radio and television.