About ADRA Norway

ADRA Norway (Adventist Development and Relief Agency) was established as a foundation in April 1993 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Norway. Our work builds on a long tradition of social welfare work done by the church members for more than 80 years. There has been a shift from handouts and charity to long term and sustainable development done in partnership with the local communities themselves. Even for emergency management, a longer term perspective is applied.

Partnership

Based on its values and working principles, ADRA Norway works in partnerships with various stakeholders, including ADRA organizations in the South. Our main implementing partners are ADRA in Peru, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia. As for emergencies, we coordinate closely with the ADRA network, and involve where the need is greatest. We use Sphere as a standard in all our emergency management work.

Thematic focus

ADRA Norway believes in a holistic approach to development, and strives for comprehensive and coherent analysis of the local and national reality/context. We work to promote gender equality and peace and reconciliation in the areas of education, health, food security, water and sanitation and provide emergency relief when conflicts and disasters happen.

Global News

ADRA Sending Medical Aid to Flooded Communities in Pakistan

As the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in Pakistan following heavy monsoon rains, ADRA is sending medical teams to some of the worst affected areas in the north. ADRA’s response is targeting the Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Province’s Nowshera District, an area located northwest of the capital Islamabad that has experienced some of the heaviest flooding so far. As part of the intervention, ADRA plans to mobilize medical teams of doctors, nurses, and paramedics to local school, hospitals, and community centers.

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