ADRA New Zealand

Home site Resource Development Project - Helping 1,200 poor rural women to improve their socio-economic, health and nutrition status through learning to read and write, starting their own business, receiving basic health and nutrition education. This project aims to reduce the “gender gap” in their society, where women are discriminated against.

Santuk Child-friendly Village (PMK)- improving the health and reduce the number of birth-related deaths amoung more than 22,500 women of reproductive age, and more than 17,400 children under 5 years. Focus points include health education, immunization, family planning and maternal health care and home gardening.

Refugee camp in Tamil Nadu - Improving shelter conditions for over 300 Sri Lankan refugee families who have fled their own country to escape the civil war conflict and are seeking asylum and safety in India. They are living in a vulnerable refugee camp where ADRA is one of only four NGO’s allowed into the camps for aid relief.

Emergency Aid- to improve the health and nutrition of 300 households with malnourished women and children who don’t have a way of providing nutritious food, and are not able to produce any for themselves, and to help them cope with disasters, through training and food support.

Sustainable Livelihoods through Micro-finance Innovation (SLMI) project- helping low-income and ultra-poor households out of poverty by encouraging financial providers to serve poor customers who are normally seen as a waste of time, and seen as ‘unbankable’. This project also helps families to recover from effects of devastating droughts and snow storms.

1. NamTit Asset Creation project- helps over 350 households in 12 villages in rural Wa region who have been made poor by controls on opium poppy crops, ADRA NZ helps to create new assets through long term livestock husbandry needed as a way to stop poverty caused by changes in cropping and land use controls.
2. Enhanced Food Security Initiative Project in Hsi Hsaing Region- is working to secure food for over 350 poor rural households in 12 villages and to support children’s continual enrolment to their schools and to improve community assets

Family Planning and Safe Motherhood project in 6 districts in Nepal- helping to reduce the amount of birth related deaths for over 282,900 women by increasing access to quality family planning and safe motherhood services.

Marovo Women’s Small Enterprise Development project- supporting the Marovo Women’s Association Small Enterprise Programme by improving economic, health, and social status to 2300 women and their families through skills training, and by providing support to start and manage small businesses, helping to improve their family security and safety and the welfare of their children and strengthening their social status.

Tsunami relief to the Western and Choiseul provinces- in response to the disaster 168 families were provided with a ‘Household Relief kit’ and the supply of materials and equipment to help meet the immediate needs of the survivors, and to aid in their recovery.

Positive Deviance project (HEARTH)- by targeting 300 mothers and 600 children under 5 years in the Ampara district, this project is working to improve young children’s nutritional health of tsunami-affected children. Includes health awareness, mothers support groups , home gardening and midwife training.

Keep Girls Safe Project in the Chiang Rai district- to reduce female trafficking for the sex industry, and help families through economic help and education to protect their girls from the danger of being drawn or forced into the sex trade. Project run in the community and in a shelter for high risk girls.