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Covid 19 coronavirus: Northland's Nepalese community racked with worry for home country 14 May, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read Whangārei resident Padam Acharya has lost two friends to Covid in Nepal. Photo / Michael Cunningham Nepalese living in Northland are racked with worry as the Covid-19 crisis ravages their home country. Many of their family members have fled to remote villages to escape the turmoil in Kathmandu, which is in lockdown, and New Zealand charities in Nepal are urging Kiwis to help fund vital oxygen, vaccines and other medical supplies. Whangārei resident Padam Acharya is...

2 Min Read Published on: 5 hours ago To better serve their local community, Hillview Seventh-day Adventist Church members relocated their Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) thrift shop from Tuggerah to larger premises in Morisset, New South Wales, Australia, in August 2020. Now they are closer to where volunteers live, allowing the shop to be a more effective community hub, managers said. Alongside providing affordable household and clothing items, the facility offers important services to the community. Locally known as the David Jones Op Shop, running the 1,...

2 Min Read Published on: 5 hours ago On March 19, 2021, a deadly fire broke out in a residential area of Kawit, Cavite, Philippines, which left approximately 80 percent of homes destroyed. About 1,079 individuals from 511 families were affected, and 450 survivors had their homes devastated by the fire, according to an initial damage report submitted by a local Adventist Community Services (ACS) team of the Cavite Mission. “Most fire-affected families sought temporary shelter in three evacuation centers in the Binakayan National High School, the Binakayan Elementary Scho...

3 Min Read Published on: 1 day ago The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is preparing to airlift critical medical supplies and several oxygen generation systems to ease India’s coronavirus health crisis.  The humanitarian agency is partnering with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, including the Adventist Health Ministries department and Adventist Health International (AHI), to expand relief operations in the South Asian nation. “The Seventh-day Adventist Church must assist in helping people overcome the health and humanitarian tragedy that is unfolding i...

Minister of National Security commends Trinidad and Tobago as National Relief Collection Drive for St. Vincent and the Grenadines end Port of Spain:On Friday May 07, 2021 the Minister of National Security, the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds MP, officially brought to a close the national collection drive that was launched on behalf of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG).  The collection drive was initiated by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. the Honourable Keith C. Rowley MP, on Friday April 09, 2021, the date of the first explosive eruption of the La Soufr...