Welcome to ADRA Update! Please join us as we review what has been happening at ADRA Canada during the month of June, 2023. Cho Thel, Senior Project Manager for Education Projects, has recently moved to Canada. She was serving in her role from her home country of Myanmar. With the instability of the civil war there, she applied and was accepted to live and work in Canada. We welcome Cho Thel to our Newcastle office and wish her the best as she makes Canada her new home. Cho Thel shares a little of her experience of visiting the ADRA BRIGHT projects in Myanmar. Grant Hillier, Associate Director for Emergency Programs at ADRA Canada, joins us to talk about the current emergencies that ADRA has been responding to in June. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1VyXVycxM8

Welcome to our new video magazine format for ADRA Update! Please join us as we review what has been happening at ADRA Canada this month! David Kozarichuk, Associate Director for Development Programs, shares with us about ADRA’s current programs that are helping lift people out of poverty. Nola Pal, ADRA’s new Finance Director, is welcomed back to the ADRA family. Frank Spangler tells us about the new website, ADRAtv.com, and how you can screencast ADRA videos to your smart TVs. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK9IpowvtE

Our featured video of the month tells the story of an elderly woman in a drought-stricken region of Africa is doing her best to raise and support her four teenage grandchildren. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB35wIohd44

Join Teresa Ferreira, Associate Director of Philanthropy and Marketing for ADRA Canada, as she shares stories about the recent work of ADRA Canada on the National TV program, Lessons for Living with Bill Santos. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRmhy3Tajno

A music video composed and performed for ADRA Canada by Maxwell Aka Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLdzvwitPuE