The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is a global network of independent humanitarian organisations established in 1984 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the specific purpose of providing individual and community development and disaster relief. ADRA established an office and began programme activities in Nepal in 1987. ADRA serves people without regard to their ethnic, political or religious association. It simply helps people in need, especially those most vulnerable such as women, children, and the elderly.

Community is the theme of ADRA’s work in Nepal. It is a simple concept – the idea that individuals can live and work together to meet common goals – that we believe enables all progress and improvement in an increasingly complex world.

For ADRA Nepal, community begins with the 120 or so employees who work on a diverse range of projects in 18 districts around the country, but quickly broadens to include many thousands of Nepali people from government, non-government and community-based groups with whom they partner daily to implement development and relief activities.

And community does not stop there, it also includes the many ADRA employees working in more than 100 countries around the world as well as all those donors and volunteers, both corporate and individual who support the work of ADRA in Nepal.