DanChurchAid: Poverty

Food and nutrition watch - Issue zero

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:40:41 GMT

The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is the first and only international periodical
review that monitors state actors� actions related to the realization of the right to food.

Princess Marie visited homeless

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:20:12 GMT

During her visit to Russia, Danish Princess Marie had a break from the high profile dinners and polished floors to visit a centre for homeless. The centre is one of DanChurchAid�s partners.

First National Forum of �Act Development Central Asia"

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:41:27 GMT

The first ever National Forum of �Act Development Central Asia� Alliance was successfully held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 6-7. The Forum brought together five international development agencies � ICCO (the Netherlands), DanChurchAid (DCA, Denmark), Christian Aid (United Kingdom), Norwegian Church Aid and Hungarian Interchurch Aid � and more than fifteen non-governmental organisations and microfinance institutions from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. More than 40 representatives of the organisations participated in this historic event.

Tutu nominates DanChurchAid

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:04:38 GMT

Archbishop Desmond Tutu nominates DanChurchAid for the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The nomination is backed by the 10 bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and former Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Uffe Elleman-Jensen

Africa Commission policy notes

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:11:01 GMT

The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa.

Pop songs are luxury in the maizefield

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:28:14 GMT

The Malawian farmers slog away in the dry fields. But that isn�t always enough to provide their families with food. The ELDS program helps the farmers to save money and groundnuts, to secure that they don�t starve.

Advocates of the poor in former Soviet Republic

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:53:54 GMT

Small seeds for an active civil society are starting to grow in the poor Central Asian Republic Kyrgyzstan where children have to work to get an income to the family

Returning to nothing

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:41:29 GMT

Refugees are now seriously returning to South Sudan. Expectations are high but there is very little to come home to

Joint Ethio-Danish NGO programme - North Wollo final evaluation

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:55:54 GMT

The joint ethio-dansih NGO programme in North Wollo started in 1997 and is a collaboration between the three Danish NGO's Save the Children, Danish Red Cross and DanChurchAid and their Ethiopian partners. The purpose was to relieve the food crisis and support agricultural development in North Wollo, a very poor area in Ethiopia.

Kazakhstan women met to combat loneliness, then tackled government

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Margarita Zobnina, a medical biologist in the nursing profession, joined a women's group in her native Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, at a time when women faced not only increasing impoverishment but also loneliness.