Churches focus on Disaster Management
The Church Agencies Network Disaster Operations (CAN DO) Fiji will continue to expand their reach working with churches and faith-based organisations in raising awareness and ensuring collaboration and coordination in disaster management to enhance community resilience to disasters. CAN DO Fiji is one of the four consortiums under the Australian Humanitarian Partnership’s Disaster READY program […]
USAID partners with ADRA to Support Economic Development in Vanua Levu
The U.S. Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has awarded US$950,000 Pacific American Fund grant to Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Fiji (ADRA Fiji) Learning Environmental Adaptation Project (LEAP) to enhance the quality of life for 50 local communities in Vanua Levu, Fiji. Supported by USAID’s flagship small grant facility, […]
UNDP partners with ADRA in the North
Ensuring land-based ecosystem is restored through land use control agriculture practices, vegetation clearing controls and soil conservation are the focus of the Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) Fiji and UNDP’s project in the Northern division implemented in three selected communities in Cakaudrove.
Tia’s Homegarden addresses nutrition needs
Tia has become health cautious thanks to ADRA’s Live More Abundantly Program. To invest in the health of her family, she has invested her time into homegardening and her family never lacks their nutrition meals daily.
Family Care Centre worker learns from Psychological First Aid Training
Susana (not her real name) works for a Family Care Centre run by a faith-based organisation in Lautoka. She has been working at this Centre for years, providing first help to affected families, particularly those from domestic violence background. According to Susana, the Psychosocial First Aid Trainings organized by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency […]
Food and Nutrition Security Project Inspires Women with Disabilities
Ms Litia Naitanui of the Rewa Organization of Persons with Disabilities took the lead role in organizing refreshments at the community handover of the Food and Nutrition Security, Community Resilience and Economic Sufficiency (FANCRES) Project earlier this week (7/02/2023) in Lomanikoro, Rewa. Together with members of her association, they served refreshments from the home-made flour […]
Church becomes “Beacon of Hope”
Since the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Fiji, the Salvation Army Lautoka has been a beacon of hope to many in the Waiyavi communities. With direct impacts of the pandemic affecting the livelihood of many who have lost their jobs and have their hours reduced, the church, led by Captain Salesi Temo, have been there […]
Visually Impaired Farmer Assisted Under Cash for Cultivation Initiative
Losing all your months of hard work in just a day could be very devastating. This was exactly how Jitendra Ram, and his 77 year-old father Dyre Ram felt when their Bilolevu farm in Sigatoka was destroyed by the flooding caused by Tropical Cyclone Ana early this year (2021). The farm belongs to Dyre, whose […]
ADRA helps 43,000 Affected Fijians
ADRA Fiji provides food security and livelihood support to 8728 affected households nationwide during the COVID-19 crisis Life has been pretty hard for many Fijians this year. With a population of over 900,000, Fiji was still on the road to recovery from the first COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020 when cyclones -TC Yasa and TC […]
Single Mother Benefits from Cash for Cultivation Initiative
One of the biggest challenges for a single parent is finding a suitable way to support the livelihoods of their family. For 31 year-old Lusiana of Nalotawa in Ba, she has been able to provide the much needed support for her four children by working in a small farm outside of Ba Town. The farm, […]
