DanChurchAid: Equal rights

Fighting for the forest

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:58:11 GMT

India’s forest cover accounts for a little over 20% of total land and is home to more than 8% of tribal population. More than 90% of them live below the poverty line, struggling for their basic survival. Read the testimonial by Ditabhai, a tribal living in the reserved forests of India on his life and struggle with rights.

Counting the chickens...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:57:22 GMT

The chickens of Mtoso village get more attention than the average Danish egg layer. The women of the village gladly perform a song of gratitude about how the chickens have changed their life, whenever there are visitors.

Parents struggle for Justice

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:22:23 GMT

Dusty, worn down roads and a diversion through fields onto a muddy track lead to Kumha, a village located in Southern Bharatpur, - an upper caste Jat dominated district of Rajasthan. This is a village where a young Dalit girl was gangraped by three upper caste men. She committed suicide.

"Too risky to save in my hut"

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:02:59 GMT

Being a single mother of two in rural Malawi is no easy task for Joyce. Her income is highly unstable, and she has to rely on loans from friends and relatives during tougher times, since she has no means of accumulating savings. For poor people like Joyce, access to microsavings is the way to a better, more stable future.

Woman of substance

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:45:58 GMT

In Ballabhgarh village in India lives Sonedeyee, the first Dalit woman Panchayat (Local Self Government) leader. Sonedeyee was brutally attacked earlier this year by the dominant caste in the village. She is now fighting for her rights with the help of Centre for Dalit Rights (CDR), DanChurchAid’s Partner in Rajasthan.

The future is in the vegetable garden

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:44:18 GMT

Young women in Cambodia are being given agricultural training in an attempt to help alleviate poverty and unemployment. These underprivileged women are not only learning about the seasonal cycles of various crops but also how to farm livestock. The intension is, that they can help to secure a better future for their families.

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

Five fish per intercourse

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:24:39 GMT

By the shore of Lake Malawi women offer their bodies as payment for freshly caught fish, since they have no money. The nightly activities spread HIV and produces fatherless children. SWAM project helps the women take better care of them selves.

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.

African Youth Panel in Ethiopia

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:46:02 GMT

DanChurchAid and the Danish NGO-forum invites young people from all over Africa to apply for participation in the African Youth Panel, taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 16-19. 2008. The Youth Panel will be a lifetime opportunity to influence the future of Africa by developing recommendations to the further work of the Danish Africa Commission.