The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is supplying emergency food and shelter for survivors of the severe earthquake that struck a heavily populated area in northwest India and Pakistan and was felt in Nepal and Bangladesh. An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Mecalli scale occured on Friday, January 26, crumbling buildings like paper.
News reports state thousands have been killed and many more are missing.
Countless numbers of people are sleeping in the streets because of aftershocks. An internationally recognized non-governmental organization, ADRA is active in more than 120 nations. ADRA was granted general consultative status by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in 1997. ADRA is an independent humanitarian agency established with the specific purpose of individual and community development and disaster relief. Without regard to age, ethnicity, or political or religious association, ADRA assists more than 19 million children, women, and men annually.