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Published on: 01-22-2021
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has donated 500,000 masks to La Sierra University in Riverside, California, United States, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus in nearby communities. Health officials report COVID-19 cases, and the death toll, continue to rise in southern California. Riverside County alone has confirmed more than 228,000 positive cases and 2,300 deaths since the beginning of 2021, and the numbers are expected to increase as the year unfolds.
“We are so privileged for our university and its students to be able to partner with ADRA in distributing greatly needed face masks to our communities in Riverside. Scores of people will be provided this very important tool for preventing the spread of COVID-19,” John Thomas, dean of the La Sierra University Zapara School of Business and an ADRA board member, told ADRA.
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Published on: 12-21-2020
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) joined forces with the Adventist Church to help families impacted by recent hurricanes Eta and Iota in the cluster of islands of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, Colombia.
The back-to-back destructive storms that slammed the Caribbean islands, located about 480 miles (770 kilometers) northwest of Colombia’s mainland, killed several people and injured others, damaged or destroyed more than 95 percent of the homes, churches, and buildings in the region, and left thousands of people homeless.
ADRA’s GARSA Rescue Operative Group arrives in San Andres on November 18, 2020, to help hurricane survivors in the Caribbean islands of Colombia. [Photo: ADRA in Colombia]