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ADRA Condemns Aid Cuts in Federal Budget
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Australia has condemned the federal government’s $224 million cut to overseas aid that makes Australia’s aid budget the least generous in its history. Cuts announced in the 2016-17 federal budget on May 3 mean Australia will give just 0.23 per cent of gross …
Read MoreADRA Responds to Drought in Africa
In response to the serious drought affecting countries across southern and eastern Africa, where El Niño conditions have caused the lowest ever recorded rainfall between October and December 2015, the global ADRA network is responding. It is estimated that 40 million rural people and 9 million poor urban people who live in …
Read MoreADRA, Sanitarium team up in Fiji
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has partnered with Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing to deliver more food aid to hungry communities following Cyclone Winston in Fiji. Boxes of Weet-Bix and So Good were donated by Sanitarium for ADRA to deliver to people most in need. More than 620 families received packs …
Read MoreFiji: Distributions & Needs Assessments Continue
More than 1,000 families have received food and hygiene kits in Fiji after distributions by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). Food packs containing rice, lentils, tuna, sugar and biscuits were given to 501 families in Ra Province, one of the worst hit areas, along the northern coast of …
Read MoreFiji Braces for Cyclone Winston
A category five tropical cyclone bearing down on Fiji threatens to devastate the country. Your donation to our Disaster Relief Fund can help people who have been affected. Urgent assistance is needed. Donate now. Cyclone Winston is travelling westward and is predicted to make landfall early on Sunday (local time). Winds …
Read More1000km Ride Raises $70,000
One day into their epic adventure – riding a thousand kilometres in ten days on a tandem bicycle – Louise and Nat Ginn had doubts. “After day one I wasn’t sure if I’d actually make it,” Louise said. “The first couple of days were quite painful, but after day three I …
Read MoreDrought Ravages the Pacific
As the plane descends into Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, I’m shocked by all the brown outside. What I imagined to be tropical and green is anything but. Brown crops, brown trees, brown grass. The extent of the El Niño drought ravaging the country, and indeed the entire …
Read MoreADRA Community Kitchens Thrive in WA
“The food is just so amazing! You feed us like we are your family.” “I feel safe here… I look forward to coming each week.” “You give us more than food – you give us friendship and love.” This is just a taste of the feedback that ADRA Cafes have …
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