DanChurchAid: Congo

DanChurchAid at Roskilde Festival

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:57:00 GMT

DanChurchAid played host to a number of activities at this year�s Roskilde, related to both the volunteer refund work and the humantohuman campaign focus on the DR Congo: �Fair Phone � Fair Future.� These activities were symbolic of the often-unfair mining practices that are behind the production of the many mobile phones we buy and use every day.

DanChurchAid volunteers at Roskilde Festival

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:03:47 GMT

Roskilde Festival could not exist without the help of its many volunteers. Around 23.000 out of Roskildes maximum of 105.000 guests are volunteering as security, chefs, parking guards, sanitation workers and last but not least; refund collectors. While the volunteer refund collectors of DanChurchAid are an equal part of this essential festival element, the work they do and the information they share will travel far beyond the borders of Denmark � and Europe.

Video: See a deminer in Action

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:19:34 GMT

Mine clearance is thorough and meticulous work and in DR Congo highly influenced by weather and vegetation. This video shows a DanChurchAid deminer in action.

Humanitarian Mine Action in DR Congo

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:59:35 GMT

Since mine threats as well as HIV/AIDS prevalence are high in DR Congo, DCA has developed a new approach combining both MRE and HIV/AIDS education programmes. Detailed impact surveys of mine-affected areas are also being carried out, assessing the threats posed and their social and economic repercussions.

Kabumba village - the mine situation in Congo

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:13:41 GMT

The village of Kamumba was once a prosperous fishing community. But during the five year long war it was turned in to a military camp. Though the war is over, the mines remain, preventing the villagers from returning.

Linking Humanitarian Mine Action and Food Security

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:36:46 GMT

DCA's Humanitarian Mine Action programme concentrates on clearing agricultural land of mines, in order to link mine clearance with food security for the population in affected areas.

Contact information

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:07:00 GMT

Contact information: DanChurchAid's HMA office in DR Congo and the HMA desk at DanChurchAid headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.

New team starts demolitions in South-Kivu

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:29:29 GMT

DanChurchAid�s humanitarian mine action programme in eastern DR Congo has recently created a new team for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) tasks. During the first week's work in Uvira the team destroyed 108 UXOs - and that is only the beginning.

EU and UNMACC visit HMA team in Kalemie

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:05:15 GMT

In September, DanChurchAid DR Congo programme based in Kalemie, Katanga Province, received an important visit by Miss Monika Tortschanoff, Human Rights and Civil Society representative of the European Commission Delegation in DR Congo and Mr Harouna Ouedraogo, Programme Manager for United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC) in DR Congo.

Training of new deminers

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:39:25 GMT

In a field, 5 km outside of Kalemie in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 men and 13 women have been training for more than three weeks. Ten of these trainees will form part of two new teams that are to work with humanitarian mine clearance under the "Humanitarian Mine Action Program", funded by Europeaid with 940 000 Euros and running from the April 1, 2006, until March 31, 2008.