ADRA Insider

Earlier this year, we sat down with the team from ADRA Haiti to discuss the implementation of the "FAH" program - Food Assistance in Haiti. The interview takes a look into the experiences of the local team and explains the experience of people living in Haiti in the midst of tremendous turmoil and instability.  We also take a moment to overview some of the historical causes and reasons for the current situation - highlighting the need for compassion, understanding, accountability, and engagement from the rest of the world. Haiti is a resilient nation that has survived almost unimaginable challenges. For the ADRA Haiti team, nothing could have been more fulfilling than seeing the relief on the faces of their own people receiving food when they needed it most.  Follow us on all of our online platforms to stay up to date with ADRA Canada, and visit our website to learn how you can help make a difference.  https://www.adra.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/adracanada https://www.instagram.com/adracanada/ https://www.youtube.com/adracanada https://vimeo.com/adracanada 

ADRA Insider is back! Our theme for 2024 is "Compassion In Action," and the situation around the world is certainly demanding that we dig deep for that compassion.  On New Years Day, natural disasters struck Madagascar and Japan. Cleanup and relief responses were already underway in Tanzania due to flooding that took place just before the New Year, and the rising tensions in the Middle-East have meant more problems for Lebanon. ADRA is on the ground working on crisis response in each of these cases. But the numerous problems around the world are a powerful reminder of how important it is for us to band together and choose to put compassion into action. Follow us on all of our online platforms to stay up to date with ADRA Canada, and visit our website to learn how you can help make a difference.  https://www.adra.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/adracanada https://www.instagram.com/adracanada/ https://www.youtube.com/adracanada https://vimeo.com/adracanada 

In the final episode of 2023 - ADRA Canada's "Year of Justice" - we take a look at the work that ADRA does with people who are displaced from their homes, whether Refugees or Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). We share stories of an IDP family in Somalia and a family of Ukrainian refugees seeking to make the most of a new life resettled in Canada.  This episode also takes some time for Max, the producer, to reflect on the scale and frequency of humanitarian crises and natural disasters in 2023 and to offer some personal thoughts on what it means to pay attention with an open heart, to remain empathetic to the suffering of the world, and to maintain a humanitarian spirit in spite of constant bad news.  To everyone who has listened to this season of the podcast this year, we thank you for your attention, engagement, and support. We wish you the best in the new year!   Follow us on all of our online platforms to stay up to date with ADRA Canada.  https://www.adra.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/adracanada https://www.instagram.com/adracanada/ https://www.youtube.com/adracanada https://vimeo.com/adracanada 

In our ongoing Year of Justice, we dedicated November to the theme of "Protecting Children." Yes, we are a bit late highlighting last month's theme on the podcast, but we still felt it was worth it to give the topic a highlight on this show.  Notably, we sat down recently with Cho Thel - Senior Program Manager for the Myanmar chapter of the BRIGHT (Breaking Barriers, Improving Girls Education, Hope, and Totality) Project. She shared some of her personal experience from helping to implement this project, as well as some of her own story growing up in this very same country, and how it all contributes to ADRA's emphasis on protecting children from the harms of trafficking, labour exploitation, and abuse. You will also hear examples of the BRIGHT project's success in Niger and Sudan, and catch a glipse of how all ADRA projects contribute in some way to the protection of children. Follow us on all of our online platforms to stay up to date with ADRA Canada.  https://www.adra.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/adracanada https://www.instagram.com/adracanada/ https://www.youtube.com/adracanada https://vimeo.com/adracanada 

On November 15, 2023, ADRA Canada celebrated the agency's 40th anniversary. After four decades of humanitarian service, there was a lot to celebrate, to reflect on, and to look forward to. Important representatives from Seventh-day Adventist church leadership, as well as local leaders and dignitaries, all took their turns on stage to speak on the importance of ADRA's work, and to cast a vision for the future of the agency.  Join us on this episode of ADRA Insider as we summarize the events of the night for those who were unable to attend, as well as giving you a little insight into some staff's experiences behind the scenes. You'll also hear the recorded premiere of a new, original ADRA theme song, and learn a bit more about legacy giving and the ADRA J. Howard Society. Follow us on all of our online platforms to stay up to date with ADRA Canada.  https://www.adra.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/adracanada https://www.instagram.com/adracanada/ https://www.youtube.com/adracanada https://vimeo.com/adracanada 

ADRA's projects almost always involve some element of promoting healthy living, or enhancing people's ability to maintain, preserve, or improve their health. From food security projects, to water access, to medical responses to global pandemics, ADRA puts deeply-held Seventh-day Adventist values into practice by helping people to access their health-related human rights. 

As a migrant crisis unfolds across Latin America and the Caribbean, how should we respond? Plus, we introduce a new host and welcome new listeners to discover why ADRA's work is effective.    We are raising funds to fight the ongoing hunger crisis in 13 countries between October 2022 and March 2023. Donate today to help us dethrone hunger and set a seat for Justice At The Table. https://linktr.ee/adracanada

In this episode of the ADRA Insider, we talk to Sopheap Sreng, the Gender Equality Manager for ADRA Canada. Sopheap was forced to leave his home as a child and spent seven years living on the street.  He tells how one dollar changed his life, and how his journey has led to his work today in Gender Equality for ADRA Canada.

Join ADRA Insider Host, Heather Grbic and Associate Director for Programs, Avish Raj, as they discuss how ADRA is bringing the issues of Climate Change into all of the projects that ADRA Canada funds around the world.

In this episode of the ADRA Insider, Heather Grbic visits with Artem Dikhtiaruk, Programs Director for ADRA Ukraine, over a Zoom call.  Artem shares his harrowing experience of evacuating his hometown and the amazing work that ADRA Ukraine is doing to save lives in Ukraine.

In this episode of the ADRA Insider video podcast, we take a look back on the BC Fires of 2021 and review how ADRA responded to help the victims of the fires.  Heather Grbic interviews ADRA staff that were directly involved in the response.  The podcast includes interviews from people who were affected by the fires, as well as ADRA volunteers who gave up their summer plans to help people in need.

In this episode, Heather Grbic, has an insightful conversation with Mahider Yeshaw, Gender Equality Advisor for ADRA Canada on how ADRA Canada includes gender equality education into all of the programs that we do.

In this episode of the ADRA Insider Podcast, Frank Spangler has a zoom call with some of the staff of ADRA Cambodia to discuss the work of ADRA in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Learn about the many ways that ADRA Canada has supported this country from the recovery of the civil war in the 1990s through the response to the COVID pandemic.

In this episode of the ADRA Insider Podcast, Frank Spangler and Executive Director, Steve Matthews talk about a recent trip they went on to the highlands of Peru. Discover how ADRA is changing lives by helping people build warm, healthy homes, high up in the Andean mountains.

In this episode of the ADRA Insider Podcast, Frank Spangler speaks with ADRA’s Canadian Programs Manager, Pastor Daniel Saugh, about some of the work that ADRA is doing here in Canada to help relieve hunger. Pastor Saugh also speaks about Ministries of Compassion, and his vision of having ADRA Partner with Churches across Canada as they minister to people in need in their communities.

In this episode, Heather Grbic speaks with Michael Kirkby about the work that ADRA is doing to help people have better health and nutrition. Michael talks about the visits that he has made to project sites where ADRA has been teaching people how to grow organic kitchen gardens. He also shares his experience of having just visited ADRA’s project in Nunavut.

In this episode of the ADRA Insider, Host, Heather Grbic speaks with Frank Spangler, Multimedia Specialist for ADRA Canada about his observations of the amazing work that ADRA is doing in helping people learn ways to better provide for their families.

In this episode, we feature the work that ADRA is doing in Education. Join our ADRA Insider host, Heather Grbic as she talks with Analynn Bruce, Development Program Director for ADRA Canada about how ADRA is Changing the lives of youth living in conflict and post-conflict zones.

We are so glad you have joined us! In this episode, Pastor Mark Johnson, ADRA Board Chair, speaks with host, Frank Spangler, on the importance of providing clean, safe water to people living in remote communities. As the President of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Canada, Pastor Johnson also speaks of his vision for a new, developing partnership between ADRA and Adventist churches across Canada as they develop Ministries of Compassion in their own communities.

In this episode, Michael Kirkby has an in-person interview with Elaria Fahmi, the Humanitarian Program Coordinator at ADRA Lebanon. A Canadian who grew up in Toronto, Elaria has spent the last 5 years working in Syria and Lebanon. Elaria shares with us the work that ADRA Lebanon has been doing in partnership with ADRA Canada, and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, to help the people of Lebanon get through their ongoing crisis.