DanChurchAid: HMA

Aid is good business

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:33:53 GMT

DanChurchAid cooperates with private companies on developing new and better products to help the fight against poverty.

DCA handed over cleared fields to villagers

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:35 GMT

In the village of Mitondo in Congo 27 anti personnel mines were found and destroyed by DanChurchAid. Recently the fine results were celebrated in a handover ceremony.

Long summer helps productivity

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:27:49 GMT

It has been busy times for the mine action programme in Albania with perfect weather for demining and evacuation exercise.

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.

DanChurchAid clears cluster bombs in Lebanon

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:26:13 GMT

Southern Lebanon was the epicenter of Israel’s massive bombardment in the final days of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah forces. As a result large areas were contaminated with unexploded cluster munitions threatening to wound or kill those who disturbed them.

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.

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.

Albania Humanitarian Mine Action

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:01:45 GMT

By the end of this year, the land mine and cluster munition clearance programme in Albania will be completed with all known contaminated areas cleared of mines and cluster munitions.

From Battlefield to Cornfield

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:49:13 GMT

DanChurchAid's HMA staff in Albania have conducted a Post-Clearance Impact Assessment to determine the effect clearance has had on the local population. The Albanian staff returned to a site, where 53 unexploded cluster munitions were removed, to interview beneficiaries and discovered that, one year after the clearance, the community is using the area as a cornfield, pasture, and football pitch, and cross it daily to access nearby water.

Report on armed violence in Burundi

Wed, 20 May 2009 08:35:49 GMT

In January and February 2008, the Small Arms Survey conducted a national survey of armed violence in Burundi. The final report shows that gun crime, banditry and violent disputes continue to plague the population and act as a brake to socio-economic recovery from a 10 year long civil war.