Hong Kong: Teacher At Adventist High School Dies from SARS Complications

Hugo Wong, a science teacher at Clearwater Bay Sam Yuk High School, located on the campus of Hong Kong Adventist College, died April 20 of complications from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

Before Wong was diagnosed with SARS, he had already been absent from the school for a number of days. He was treated at public hospitals, according to Jeremy Low, director of marketing at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital. [Tadaomi Shinmyo/ANN]

Mindanao: Mountain View College Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Mountain View College, a Seventh-day Adventist Church institution in Mindanao, central Philippines, celebrated its 50th anniversary April 7 to 13. The school is known for its graduates, many of whom serve as missionaries to many parts of the world. It has also supplied more than half of the workers and employees of the Adventist Church in the Philippines.

Philippines vice president Teofisto Guingona keynoted the anniversary celebrations.  He told the school community how fortunate they were to be at a college that trains people to serve not only their countrymen but also other peoples of the world. [Jonathan V. Catolico/ANN]

Iraq: ADRA Spain to Operate Refugee Camps

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office in Spain has received a grant of 500,000 Euros (U.S.$538,442) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain for humanitarian relief operations in northern Iraq. The funded project will enable ADRA to organize and operate camps for 2,700 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) in the districts of Atrush 1 and Sarsink.

In addition to operating the camps, ADRA Spain, with the partnership of a local nongovernmental organization, will provide IDP’s in this region with food aid, water, blankets, clothing, kitchen utensils, kerosene lamps, tools and medicine. ADRA is also organizing a team of doctors and health workers to provide medical care. [Todd Reese/ADRA/ANN]