ADRA-UK Gets $2.9 Million In Project Funds

Poverty alleviation projects for the Shipibo communities of Ucayali, Peru, one for women in Nepal, and a project to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis in the Karaganda and East Kazakhstan Provinces of the Republic of Kazakhstan were granted funding last week by the European Commission to the United Kingdom unit of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency. The European Commission pledged a total of US$2,925,252 (£1,583,700) for the projects. ADRA-UK will expand its workforce this year in order to manage the new projects.