Our Work in Action

When communities in Brandfort and Winburg lost reliable access to water, ADRA South Africa delivered water directly to affected residents.

Water is the most basic of necessities. Without it, families cannot drink safely, cook, wash, keep their homes clean or protect their children's health. The daily burden of finding water falls hardest on women and children.

For a household without reliable water, a delivery means a safer source of drinking water, the ability to maintain hygiene, reduced health risk, relief from the daily search for water, and restored dignity. The intervention illustrates a principle at the core of our work: sometimes humanitarian assistance begins by meeting the most basic need first.

Floods in the Eastern Cape left families without homes, furniture, clothing and other essentials. ADRA South Africa distributed clothing to affected households.

For people who have lost everything, clothing is not simply a material donation. It is an immediate step toward dignity and normality — particularly for children, older people and low-income families with no means to replace what was lost.

Providing practical assistance carries a message that matters as much as the goods themselves: You have not been forgotten. Your needs matter. Your dignity matters.

Through the Solidarity Fund and the Department of Social Development, ADRA South Africa delivered food security assistance to more than 18,000 people in the Free State and Eastern Cape, alongside a COVID-19 food response with Old Mutual reaching 2,500 people and a two-year Disaster Relief Centre in the Free State.

Large-scale food relief depends on trusted partnerships, careful logistics and presence on the ground — so families receive support that is timely, dignified and accountable.