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ADRA New Zealand is seeking to fill the following part time positions. 1. Office/Admin – This role includes office support, database maintenance, receipting, phone contact with donors and other administrative tasks as required. Part time 20 hours per week. 2. Event coordinator - We required an experienced Event planner with excellent people skills and marketing abilities for the coordination of the Auckland Charity run. The successful applicant will be highly organised and motivated with a vision for seeing the fundraising side of the Event grow. Please send CV and application for either...

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DONATE NOW ?0800 4 999 111 ?or CLICK HERE Suzanne Goulding has won the inaugural "ADRA Gourmet Challenge" at the South New Zealand camp meeting at Pascoe Park in Christchurch. The ADRA Gourmet Challenge which was a light hearted and family centred competition along the lines of the currently popular television food shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Lack of basic cooking skills has been identified as a major contributor to the increasing costs of running a family and the rationale behind the event was to have a qualified chef present a selection of options of meals and methods of cooking...

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Exactly one year has passed since the devastating earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti on January 12, 2010. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has provided more than USD$4 million in aid, personnel and assets to assist Haitian survivors in the months since the earthquake. Through out the twelve months that has passed since the January earthquake, ADRA has been focused on managing displaced persons camps, water purification, food, the distribution of non-food items, sanitation and hygiene, psychosocial support, education, and semi-permanent shelters. The international...

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ADRA, in partnership with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Sanitarium Health Food Company, delivered food to Kaiapoi Community Support Services today for distribution to those families badly affected by the earthquake. This comes on the day that it is announced 85 staff have lost their jobs at the Kaiapoi New World Supermarket as a direct result of the earthquake. Kaiapoi is one of the worst affected areas from the earthquake. The food that was delivered included a range of breakfast cereals, soy milk, peanut butter and marmite. Volunteers from the Rangiora SDA church assisted under the leadership...

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DONATE NOW ?0800 4 999 111 ?or CLICK HERE Compared to some of the damage experienced in Saturday’s earthquake and subsequent aftershocks, some would say the Seventh Day Adventist School and Footsteps Preschool in Papanui got off relatively lightly. At a closer look, however, cracks have begun to appear. On visiting the site, staff members were already working to remove the learning centre’s hazardously balanced chimney. A quick survey of the building revealed further, possible structural damage including cracks to the foundations under the carpet inside. Although a preliminary assessment has deemed...

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DONATE NOW ?0800 4 999 111 ?or CLICK HERE Since the earthquake struck, ADRA New Zealand has been engaging with Emergency Managers to identify and address the most pressing community needs. ADRA, in partnership with the Seventh-day Adventist church, are encouraging church members and volunteers to community-focused action. ADRA staff attendance at high-level emergency coordination meetings has helped keep the network updated on how the disaster is being managed and to identify resources that ADRA can supply. Presence at the daily group controllers’ Civil Defense coordination meeting at Environment...

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Christchurch’s Cranmer Square, in the heart of the inner city but not completely cordoned off, is as close as ADRA staff can get on foot to some of the most severe damage that Saturday morning’s 7.1 earthquake has left in its wake. Pockets of people filter through road blocks and wind around piles of debris to survey the skeletal remains of some of the area’s oldest heritage buildings and talk to one another. Chatting to the local people, it seems that everyone has a story of their own to share. Chris, a local artist whose bedroom is barely visible from beneath a makeshift tarpaulin cover,...

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In the early hours of Saturday morning a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook the south island of New Zealand. Within a few hours of the earthquake ADRA NZ was talking with the Christchurch Emergency Manager to offer assistance of food and emergency shelter to those affected by the earthquake. Emergency needs are still being identified. ADRA NZ is on standby and in regular contact with the Christchurch Emergency Management team to swing into action as soon as the emergency needs are known. ADRA NZ has activated their Disaster Response plan and are working through the South Island Seventh-day Adventist...

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  Six million families have lost their homes, livestock, and livelihoods as their communities have been consumed by the devastating floods in Northern Pakistan. Torrential rains have already taken the lives of 1,500 individuals. It is feared that many more lives will be lost, particularly children and the elderly as water borne diseases spread. Many of these individuals were already displaced from their homes by the fighting between the Afghanistan Pakistan borders. Now, their misery and loss are extreme. The losses faced by these displaced peoples and the residents of this area will...

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