DanChurchAid: Africa

When the Rains Fail – Ethiopia’s struggle against climate change

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:00:28 GMT

Download full version of the new book by Malene Haakanson, who portrays the struggle of an Ethiopian family through the cause of one year.

Tutu: HIV is not statistical

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:57:23 GMT

All of these people are not statistics. This is the child of somebody, it is the mother of some child. It is the father of a family.” A major religious leader says the world can no longer think of HIV in developing countries as a problem that sits in isolation from other countries.

Life of a family on the Zambian flood plains

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:56:17 GMT

After leaving the tar road, we have been driving for an hour through deep sand and then onto the vast Zambezi food plains with only human footpaths to follow. In the distance we see a small thatched structure and our local guide tells us that this is where we can find Margaret, the local chairperson of Women for Change.

Adopted son makes father proud

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:42:13 GMT

Taking in a 13-year-old orphan has turned out to be a true blessing for a poor family in Uganda.

Resilience in Darfur

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:48:03 GMT

The refugee camps in Darfur are alive with conversations and activities, where men and women are busy with daily chores, literacy classes, meetings and income-generating activities. Gathered in a community center, the women talk about their fears of being attacked and their desire to go back home. Although Sudan's president al-Bashir ordered 16 humanitarian organisations out of the country in March 2009, the humanitarian organisations and the people in the camps are still going strong. They are hopeful.

48 football pitches mine free

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:46:51 GMT

Since January 23rd, 2006, DCA’s HMA Programme in Angola has been helping to demine a vast area just outside the city of Luena known as Alto Campo.

Mineclearing accident in Angola

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:13:26 GMT

A member of DanChurchAid’s mine clearing staff in Angola, Antonio Maliti was working in a minefield in the village Chicololo in the eastern part of Angola, when an unintended explosion caused Antonio to loose all fingers on his right hand.

Sleeping tight in Darfur

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:52:48 GMT

Derieg camp was and is Fiza’s safe haven since she fled with her family from the Janjaweed 5 years ago. The noise and clutter of the 22.000 IDPs here is nothing compared to the fear of attack, rape or death. Here she can earn money as a tailor, drink tea in the afternoon with her friends at the women’s community center and sleep safe.

War against women

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:32:16 GMT

In DR Congo women are being sexually assaulted on a regular basis. Nobody knows the extent of the assaults, but word has it, that it is tens of thousands. Margaret is one of the women, who has survived.

Demolition of anti tank rocket at the port of Kalemie in Congo

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:13:05 GMT

The sound of the explosion reminded Kalemie’s inhabitants of the horrible periods of war the town has gone through. But this time, the explosion took place under the full control of DanChurchAid’s humanitarian mine action team operating in the Eastern DR Congo.