WHO WE ARE

ADRA Peru is one of the leading non-governmental relief organizations in the world. It works with long-term sustainable development projects in order to provide benefits to people in poverty, extreme poverty and high social risk situations. It is part of the ADRA International Network, operating in approximately 120 countries.

ADRA works in Peru since 1965 serving and caring for those in need, promoting their integral development, looking for a compromise through actions of mercy without regard to their ethnic, political, or religious association.

Our strategic partners to reach this development are:

• Local Governments
• Public Sector
• Private Sector
• International Cooperation
• Civil Society

Our projects are all aligned with the Millennium Development Goals (United Nations).

MISSION

ADRA works with people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change through empowering partnership and responsible actions.

VISION

ADRA is a professional learning and efficient network that embodies integrity and transparency. ADRA reaches across boundaries empowering and speaking out for the at-risk and forgotten to achieve measurable, documented and durable changes in lives and society.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is a global humanitarian organization that demonstrates God’s love and compassion.

VALUES

	Excellence
	Working groups
	Responsability
	Integrity
	Vocation of service
	Compromise
	Love

PHILOSOPHY

	ADRA is a collective expression of seventh day adventists wish to improve the quality of life of those in need.
	The basis for its existence, its reason for being, is to follow Christ’s example by being a voice for serving and partnering with those in need.
	Its concepts and developmental social work ideas are based in a solid biblical argument.

ADRA BELIEVES

	That through humanitarian acts we make known the just, merciful and loving character of God.
	That to work with those in need is an expression of our love for God.
	That the compassionate ministry of Jesus is its own abundant motive and reward.
	That we are an agency of change and an instrument of grace and providence.
	In expressing concern, compassion and empathy through our work.
	That equitable partnership with those in need will result in sustainable change.
	That age, gender, race, culture, and families enrich the communities with whom we work, and are assets to respected and affirmed.
	In non-discrimination and respect for differences, accepting people as equals regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, political, or religious affiliation.
	In participatory development which utilizes both men and women’s capabilities and provides equal opportunity to individuals of differing ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds.
	That all people have the fundamental right to care, basic goods and services.
	That all persons, especially children, have the right to a life of opportunity and the freedom to choose their own future.
	In enabling partners to create participatory and sustainable community structures for information sharing and civil engagement.
	That all resources, opportunities and advantages are gifts which must be managed responsibly.
	That all people, in particular women and children, have the right to protection and a life free from violence, sexual exploitation and all other forms of abuse.
	In demonstrating integrity and transparency in our work at every level.

HISTORY

ADRA labour exists since 80’s decade approximately, but the adventist humanitarian actions are before than that.

In 1918 soon after the end of the Second War World, the Seventh-day Adventist Church established a committee to help Europe because of the serious disasters this armed conflict left. Some of the benefited countries were: Belgium, France, Germany, Turkey, Egypt, Russia and China.

After devastation in Europe, north of Africa and countries from Asia, the church immediately got organized to process equipments and food in order to send them to those places dramatically affected by the cold war.

In 1956 the General Conference of the Seven-day Adventist Church created the Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service (SAWS). This name was changed to Seventh-day Adventist World Service in 1973 but it was called by different names in every country.

In Latin America was named OFASA (Obra Filantrópica de Asistencia Social Adventista –acronym in spanish) but in 1983 the global institution determinate its actual name, ADRA. Its goal was to emphasize new programs of community development in the poorest countries and, thus, reach the humanitarian and emergency relief where needs were the most urgent.

ADRA is considered by the international organizations, as an agencies network of humanitarian relief and development. It's linked to the Seven-day Adventist Church, but keeps an independent structure and administrative organization. ADRA is currently operating in more than 120 countries and Peru is one of them.



ADRA IN PERU

We are working day to day since 1965 looking for a complete development in our country..

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TRANSPARENCY

Financial statements until December 2008 and 2009

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