

- Aug 24, 2020
Community Empowerment Project (CEP) is Changing Lives across the Country
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is a global humanitarian organization with a mission to work with people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change. ADRA defines economic development as the sustained increased capacity of individuals and empowering communities to obtain goods and services and general improvement in living standards. In terms of empowering the community, ADRA in Bangladesh selected three different areas of Bangladesh where pe


- Aug 22, 2020
ADRA Provides Food Support to Cyclone Amphan Affected Families
Amphan, the most powerful cyclone made landfall on 20th May 2020 in the coastal districts of Bangladesh. There had been heavy impairment, especially in southwestern Bangladesh. The menace demolished the roads, infrastructures, houses and caused an irreparable loss to the livelihood in Dacope Upazila of Khulna district which located in the coastal lines of Bangladesh. During the COVID-19 pandemic, cyclone Amphan brought a double nuisance for the afflicted community people. Tho


- Aug 18, 2020
World Humanitarian Day
World Humanitarian Day is a day devoted to humanitarians worldwide, as well as to intensify public understanding of humanitarian assistance undertakings. The day aims to honor humanitarian workers who have lost their lives or injured themselves in the course of their work and to acknowledge the ongoing work of humanitarian staff around the world. This day was nominated in memory of the 19 August 2003 bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 22 people, includin


- Aug 15, 2020
ADRA’s Contribution to Food Security in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has great potential for agriculture-led growth and food security. Nearly half of all Bangladeshis are employed in agriculture. Empowering women benefits both households and communities and is an important source of resilience in Bangladesh. There are contributing threats to food insecurity, which is fundamental to developing self-sustainability in the community. ADRA in Bangladesh is playing a significant role in terms of mitigating the food crisis in the rural are


- Aug 9, 2020
Tongi Children Education Program (TCEP) – A beacon of hope for the slum children
Bangladesh is a country of about 161.4 million of people containing nearly 5.3 million of slum people. The slum is one of the biggest problems of Bangladesh. There are innumerable makeshift shelters that can figure out in Dhaka city and the Tongi area. Tongi is located in the Gazipur – a neighboring district of Dhaka. The slum is a word, a name that reflects the miseries of deprived people who have to struggle with poverty to survive in this beautiful world. Slums and shantie