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Adventist Development and Relief Agency

LC control no.n 95043338
Corporate name headingAdventist Development and Relief Agency
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Variant(s)ADRA
Found inBanza's incredible journey and other stories from ADRA, c1995: CIP t.p. (ADRA) galley (ADRA; short for Adventist Development and Relief Agency. ADRA's roots reach back to 1918 but there was no formal organization until 1956 when the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists created the Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service, Incorporated (SAWS) [no publs. in LC data base]. This name was modified in 1973 to Seventh-day Adventist World Service [no publs. in LC data base], and in 1983 SAWS was reorganized to Adventist Development and Relief Agency)