DanChurchAid: Middle East

Women in the Frontline for Clearing Cluster Bombs

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:54:42 GMT

"Mine action is a male dominated sector, but it doesn't have to be," declares Christina Bennike, the dynamic head of Danish charity DanChurchAid (DCA) in south Lebanon. "I really felt it would be important to address this from the beginning, then it would be natural instead of something different or unique."

40 years of occupation

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:44:09 GMT

For 40 years Israel has built settlements on occupied territory, taken from Palestinian farmers. Half of Palestinians now live under the UN poverty line and the two-state solution is wearing thin.

Mine risk education in Lebanon

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:19:48 GMT

Life is slowly returning after the traumatic 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict last summer that left Lebanese villages bombed, roads destroyed and thousands injured and dead. DanChurchAid is currently clearing mines and unexploded ammunition in Lebanon and is right now engaged in four mine risk education events in Southern Lebanon.

A call for 'dignified health care'

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:03:26 GMT

Going to the hospital for the first time is difficult enough without worrying about strikes by hospital workers. But the relatives of Yousef Abed Elatif Sedqee had to factor that in when they recently took the 7-year-old from the West Bank village of Megaer to the nearby clinic run by Augusta Victoria Hospital in the village of Turmus'ayya.

A cold winter in Lebanon

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:05:52 GMT

The winter in the mountainous regions of South Lebanon is rapidly approaching. Though reconstruction is well under way after the 34 day war between the Israeli army and Hizbollah, people are in need of heaters and blankets.

Update on Lebanon activities

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:07:25 GMT

Among the greatest needs currently being expressed in villages in Lebanon are non-food relief items. DanChurchAid in Lebanon supports approx. 3,000 families with non food items and is also clearing mines and unexploded ammunition.

Water issues still plague villages

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:13:33 GMT

One hundred days after the cease-fire that ended the battle between Israel and Hezbollah, many Lebanese villages are still without running water.

Political assassination

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:48:11 GMT

The normally jammed-packed streets of Beirut during rush hour were even more frantic yesterday as residents scrambled immediately following the news that Christian politician Pierre Gemayel had been brutally gunned down in the streets of a Beirut suburb.

Material and mental healing get underway

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:16:14 GMT

Scan the faces of children gathered for a break outside Souane Elementary School and you see that life is slowly returning after the traumatic 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict that left Lebanese villages bombed, roads destroyed and thousands injured and dead. DanChurchAid is currently clearing mines and unexploded ammunition in Lebanon.

Unexploded bombs

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:01:54 GMT

The hidden fallout from conflict in Lebanon: For two hours, Mahmoud Yacoub sat disoriented in a field, waiting for help to come. The 36-year-old farmer had taken his herd of goats out at about 4 o�clock in the afternoon when he stepped on something that exploded. Bleeding and in pain, he made his way to a small shrub, where he sat and waited for rescue.