Changing Lives in the Barangay A “barangay” is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino word for village, district or ward. ADRA’s EMBRACE program is working in some of the most remote barangays in the country. Canadian volunteer, Jordan Venton-Rublee, is [...]

Sok Soeymao lives in a remote village in the Prear Vihear province of Cambodia. She is 20 years old. Her husband, Mi Somoeurn, is 23 years old, and they have a one-year-old boy named Yoeurn Thou. She has never been more than a few

A New Ambulance for Rwanda Imagine living in a remote mountain-side community in Africa with dirt roads that are rarely maintained. Imagine what it would be like to be nine months pregnant for the first time, worrying about the possibility of complications. If there were problems [...]

  The Value of Knowledge In Cambodia, a young mother realizes that training is better than material assistance. A typical village home in northern Cambodia. This picture was taken in the neighbouring Preah Vihear province. Saro Seouy is a young mother living in the [...]