SILVER SPRING, MD (April 30, 2020) – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is serving greater than 2.4 million households all over the world where lives happen to be disrupted through the coronavirus pandemic. ADRA has launched COVID-19 response projects in 37 countries to aid frontline workers, low-earnings families, the seniors, and individuals facing layoffs because of the crisis.
“ADRA continues to be on the floor because the coronavirus outbreak, immediately responding and assisting probably the most needed areas around the globe, helping people and communities deal with the unparalleled health, social and economic challenges created by COVID-19. We’re here to carry on supporting vulnerable families, frontline medical professionals, and people impacted by this pandemic,” states Michael Kruger, ADRA’s president. “Our offices will work with a large number of volunteers and reliable partners to make sure individuals impacted get the existence-saving essentials, health information, food, hygiene supplies and funds vouchers to beat and get over the COVID-19 disaster.”
ADRA has scaled up emergency operations and adapted its disaster relief infrastructure in additional than 120 countries to reply to the varied requirements of the coronavirus outbreak. Emergency relief activities vary from food distribution and security, health communication practicing frontline workers, shipments of medical supplies to hospitals serving vulnerable communities, prevention awareness efforts, to cash assistance.
See ADRA’s global response tracker: https://adra.org/adra-provides-hope-during-coronavirus
Within the U.S. and also the Caribbean ADRA is supplying personal protective gear (PPE) and essential medical supplies to a large number of health workers in suburban medical facilities taking care of COVID-19 patients, including Loma Linda College Health in California, and Adventist HealthCare White-colored Oak Clinic in Maryland where protective gear is an issue and orders can require thirty days to become delivered. Furthermore, ADRA has partnered with Florida-based AdventHealth to give and ship protective equipment and medical supplies to hospitals in Jamaica and tobago where medical facilities will also be facing severe shortages of protective gear for staff and supplies for patients.
In South America, ADRA is minimizing multiplication of COVID-19 through educational campaigns for that seniors, patients with chronic illnesses, and individuals with special needs. It’s launched massive prevention efforts and distributed a large number of bottles of antibacterial gel with the aid of volunteers and places of worship in Mexico to achieve the blind, deaf, and difficult-of-hearing. In Paraguay, ADRA is serving greater than 13,000 people including 17 residential centers for destitute and trafficked children and adolescents by training public health insurance and welfare workers on health communication, clinical management, and COVID-19 prevention, surveillance and patient control.
In Asia, ADRA is disseminating communication messaging and promotion-based campaigns through videos on social networking, local provincial radio, brochures, posters and banners to advertise the significance of social distancing, hygiene, and handwashing. In Pakistan greater than 11,400 daily wage workers impacted by the lock-lower will also be receiving cash transfers, as well as in Thailand, nearly 1,500 individuals 9 refugee camps are experiencing hygiene kits. In Cambodia, ADRA is supplying personal protective gear and medical supplies to greater than 80 health centers and hospitals. Within the Philippines, ADRA is disbursing cash vouchers to a large number of quarantined families, and most 43 a lot of extra food and cleaning utility caddy to low-earnings households. ADRA can also be addressing the COVID-19 crisis in Sri Lanka by disbursing dry ration packs and hygiene kits to six,500 people, creating hands washing stations, supplying protective equipment to countless medical professionals, and training public motorists on correctly disinfecting and cleaning vehicles.
In Africa, ADRA is serving greater than 120,000 individuals Kenya by supplying essential needs and health assistance. In Gambia, ADRA is donating food to greater than 2,500 low-earnings families and hygiene kits to a large number of public centers. In Mauritania, ADRA is delivering food and hygiene kits to greater than 15,000 people. Within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it’s adapted ongoing community health campaigns against other illnesses for example Ebola to avoid multiplication of COVID-19 and prevent infection.
In Europe, ADRA volunteers in The country are disbursing food and taking advantage of 3D printer technology to produce countless facial shields for area hospitals, health-care facilities, and senior residences taking care of COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, ADRA is dealing with Spanish government government bodies to supply shelter and essential services towards the destitute. In Belgium, ADRA is preparing and disbursing food to many destitute shelters and a large number of migrants in The city. In neighboring France 1,700 vulnerable families, migrants and refugees will also be receiving cash vouchers to purchase urgent requirements. ADRA in Montenegro is disbursing food packages and hygiene kits to countless seniors and isolated residents and single parents who unemployment because of COVID-19. In Russia, ADRA is manufacturing and disbursing facemasks to 35,000 beneficiaries in medical facilities and houses for that seniors.
Around Australia, ADRA is supporting vulnerable people through services for example food pantries, cafes, and community meals programs. In Nz, ADRA is delivering supermarket gift certificates across the nation to at least one,200 households to profit 3,600 people economically influenced by the pandemic.
“The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the way in which ADRA delivers humanitarian aid all over the world,” states Mario Oliveira, director for emergency management at ADRA. “I am surprised about how ADRA programs have redirected, adapted different solutions and implemented sources with small quantities of funds in some instances to do this much to reply to COVID-19 emergencies. We’re benefiting from our infrastructure, personnel, and trust from the communities we support to provide aid quickly. We’ve also adapted to new rules to guarantee the safety and wellbeing in our staff, volunteers and clients.”
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a key ally in nearly all these projects because it provides support through its network of hospitals, television and radio broadcast facilities, and a large number of volunteers. ADRA has additionally became a member of forces along with other partner organizations, for example Airlink, Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, AdventHealth, World Vision China, and Latter-Day Saints Non profit organizations to carry on to provide medical supplies along with other sources to hospitals and healthcare facilities to help affected communities. ADRA is expanding its relief efforts to greater than 31 additional projects during its next COVID-19 response phase.
Globally, greater than 3.a million individuals have contracted coronavirus and most 216,000 have left, using the U . s . States rated number 1 worldwide using more than a million confirmed cases (*Figures susceptible to change daily). Donations to help using the COVID-19 disaster response are urgently needed at ADRA.org/covidresponse.
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About ADRA
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency may be the worldwide humanitarian arm from the Seventh-day Adventist Church serving in 118 countries. Its work empowers communities and changes lives around the world by supplying sustainable community development and disaster relief. ADRA’s purpose would be to serve humanity so that all may live as God intended.
