Yasmiin’s Story

Yasmiin and her family faced seasons of hunger and thirst as the drought gripped their homeland of Somalia. Learn how this has changed.

Angela’s Story

Families like Angela’s are living hand to mouth, unable to grow enough food to sell and eat. This puts their family’s future at risk. Learn how this changed.

Maria’s Story

Families like Maria’s are living hand to mouth, unable to grow enough food to sell and eat. This puts their family’s future at risk. Learn how this changed.

Matelita’s Food in Fiji

Matelita was overwhelmed with emotion when our ADRA team arrived at her door with an emergency food pack. Living in a rural community in Fiji, Matelita (80) has been struggling during the country-wide lockdowns implemented due to the growing cases of COVID-19. Throughout June there have been up to 800 new cases per day in […]

Otara Kai Village Partnership

Sally Lavea and Swanie Nelson outside the Otara Kai Village

ADRA is a great believer in purposeful partnerships! All initiatives we run here in New Zealand are built around partnerships. Through our Community Transformation Partnership initiatives, we work alongside the Seventh-day Adventist Union and Conferences, Churches, and various community organisations, to utilise our collective strength and meet the needs of our local communities. The Ōtara […]

A Place to Call Home

For most of his life, Naim called Myanmar his home. It’s the place where he grew up, where he met and married his wife, and where he raised his three children. At the age of 63, Naim was forced to flee his home in Myanmar due to conflict and war in his city. He and […]

Are Syria’s broken people being forgotten after 10 years of conflict?

Are Syria’s broken people being forgotten after 10 years of conflict? Press Release – March 17, 2021 Ten years on, the Syrian conflict continues to cause misery for the millions who have fled and those who are still trapped inside the country. Along with the Council for International Development, 12 New Zealand aid agencies are […]

Angela’s Ginger

Angela holds her one-year-old son in her arms, he is slowly falling asleep in the Timor-Leste heat. As a single mother, Angela is the sole provider and carer for her son and would do absolutely anything to take care of him. Both of Angela’s parents have passed away, she and her baby now live with […]

Emelita’s Story

Emelita lives rural Timor-Leste with her husband, Geraldo, and their two young children. Emelita and Geraldo are farmers and grow ginger, taro, cassava, and red rice, to take care of their family. Emelita also runs a small kiosk from their home, selling basic household items such as coffee, sugar, and oil. Recently, Emelita became sick […]

We Stand with You

It is ADRA’s responsibility to be the voice of justice, compassion, and love. “It is not only sad but disgraceful what we have witnessed these last days. George Floyd and countless lives before him did not deserve to die. Racism is wrong and it goes against our Christian faith and everything that sensible human beings […]