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DCA, as part of ACT Alliance, responded immediately to the humanitarian crisis in Kyrgyzstan, having the advantage of its presence through long-term development programmes. While responding to the humanitarian needs, ACT Alliance conducted one more round of rapid assessment during July 13-14. Observations from the visits to affected families and IDP (internally displaced persons) camps are summarized here
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Five months after the earthquake in Haiti the ACT Alliance is evaluating the work so far in order to be able to streamline and coordinate the continued effort even better. Secretary General, Henrik Stubkjær, writes from Haiti.
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New project aims at improved accountability and quality of the humanitarian response in Haiti.
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Big in Denmark, small in the world. DanChurchAid will now obtain greater strength internationally for the benefit of the work for the poorest in the world.
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Donors, UN, and Haitian government as well as Civil Society representatives will converge in New York on March 31st for the Haiti Donor Conference to make pledges and begin the planning for Haiti’s long road to reconstruction.
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Just outside of Port-au-Prince, community leader Altenor Ronald expressed a mixture of frustration, anger and disorientation as he tried to coordinate the relocation of the displaced into a roadside displacement site. “We have no food, no stoves, people are hungry. I’m in charge and I don’t know what to do,” he said.
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On January 12th, a month ago this friday, a massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the richter scale struck Haiti. The quake lasted about 35 seconds, but left the capital Port-Au-Pince and the surrounding inhabited areas in ruins, killing more than 200.000 and leaving 1.2 million people homeless.
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Marie Sylsalve cradled her 10-day-old son, McAnley, and reflected on three weeks that have taken an almost incomprehensible toll. She last saw her husband in the moments immediately following the 12 January earthquake. The family’s home was destroyed and Sylsalve saw a wall fall on Andre. She presumes he is dead – it has been three weeks now. And twelve days later she gave birth in the ruins.
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At an ACT Alliance distribution of food and goods, workers set about allocating relief to the most vulnerable. Pregnant women and families with young children come first.
Then things go horribly wrong.
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Then things go horribly wrong.
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With Haiti’s healthcare services in worse shape than before the earthquake, ACT Alliance members in Port-au-Prince continue to support medical care for Haiti’s most vulnerable.
As it had done long before January 12, ACT is caring for the children. Traumatized, ill and suffering loss of limbs, hundreds of children need round-the-clock care. Read more...
As it had done long before January 12, ACT is caring for the children. Traumatized, ill and suffering loss of limbs, hundreds of children need round-the-clock care. Read more...
In the chaos of aid distribution, ACT Alliance members are managing to get food, temporary shelter, water cleaning materials and expertise to the Haitian capital.
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More than a million people in Haiti’s capital will this evening be without shelter and no immediate prospect of accommodation in camps. Between 60 and 80 percent of the houses in Port-au-Prince were brought down or are uninhabitable by Tuesday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
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Climate summit in Copenhagen and a surge in the number of people lacking basic nutrition – 2009 was a year of great challenges, but also of generosity, hope and new opportunities. We look back upon 2009 and some of the main events for DanChurchAid.
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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.
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Download full version of the new book by Malene Haakanson, who portrays the struggle of an Ethiopian family over the course of one year.
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The climate summit may be invite only - But Copenhagen is alive with climate related activities during COP 15. Join DanChurchAids many activities in Copenhagen - We reccomend a number of public access events in Copenhagen during the climate summit.
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Join us when the DanChurchAid Youth Network builds a climate refugee camp at “Vor Frue Plads” during COP15 on the 10 and 11 December.
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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.
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The wealthy nations should not be able to shirk their previously committed promises of reducing their CO2 emissions
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Participants at the Bali Climate Conference describe their expectations for COP 15 in Copenhagen. Interviewees are all representing ngo's working with climate change and the impact on the worlds poorest.
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Typhoon Ketsana caused major havoc in eight provinces of Cambodia on September 29 - 30, 2009. ”This is quite unusual. I have never seen anything like this in Cambodia," says DanChurchAid employee Sila Phung, on his return from the affected provinces in northern Cambodia.
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In the wake of the recent severe floods in Southern India, ACT International has launched a preliminary appeal for flood relief operations underway, as fears mount that the region could face severe food shortages.
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Back in the days, church bells served as alarm bells when the city or country was under attack. On the 13th of December 2009 at 3 pm, the bells will ring an alarm once again. This time they chime not as a warning of war, the alarm rings out for the climate – for creation.
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Political and Economic pressure on an international scale has the aim of forcing the self proclaimed government in Honduras to reinstate democracy
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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.
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The war is over in Gaza, the rebuilding is slowly on its way, but still people are traumatized after the Israeli attack at the beginning of the year.
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Curfew in border regions means that several thousand Hondurans are "trapped" - in their homes or on the roads
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Government authorities have announced that areas that were the site of recent fighting between the Taliban and the Pakistani military - including Buner and Swat Valley - are now clear. But the displaced are asking if it is really safe for them to return.
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As a direct result of the current coup d’état in Honduras project activities have been stalled, ACT Honduras Forum members report. None of the planned work is being implemented. No events with the participation of the community are being carried out, fearing that this may be taken as being directed against the de facto government. Also, members are concerned about the economic embargo, and about possible implications for future funding.
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Recent fighting between Pakistani military forces and Taliban insurgents in the northwest part of the country has uprooted more than three million people. Heavy shelling, bombardment and continual cross-fire have compelled innocent people to flee their villages. The majority of the displaced are now living with host communities or in rented houses, while others reside in camps.
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Church-based emergency and development organisations are about to create one of the world’s biggest networks. The name of the new body will be the ACT Alliance with a common income of more than US$2 billion dollars and a staff of 40,000, including volunteers. The formal launch of the new alliance will take place in March of next year in Malawi.
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The General Assembly of ACT International has decided to unify with ACT Development. This is the first step in the process of creating one of the world’s largest humanitarian and development alliances.
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While some aid has crossed into Gaza, humanitarian access is still quite challenging, reports ACT International. Aid organisations continue to experience significant difficulty in sending staff and additional supplies into the area to support emergency relief work and begin recovery operations.
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An initial three truckloads of ACT-supported food, milk and medical supplies have now reached Gazans in desperate need of assistance.
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Israeli missiles destroyed a DCA-supported health clinic in and Gaza on Sunday.
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The situation in Gaza remains to be difficult and dangerous. ACT situation report from Gaza.
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Food, medicine, blankets and trauma counselors are being loaded into trucks by ACT International and are headed for Gaza. In cooperation with UN agencies, ACT has prepared the much needed assistance and is awaiting permission from the Israeli army for the trucks to enter the blockaded area.
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Three mobile health clinics, run by DanChurchAids partner organisation, have been destroyed in an Israeli air strike.
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Bombs continue to fall while the population in Gaza sits by their open windows in the cold, holding their kids and telling lies to the youngest: “It is just new year fire crackers!”
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Very little aid reaches the population in Gaza.
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ACT International warns of a dramatic escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, if Israel, Hamas and other militant groups do not cease the current hostilities and avert a new military conflict.
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When war once again chased Bageni Katembereza from her home village in September, she shepherded her six children down the dirt roads of eastern Congo toward safety, not knowing where she was headed, only sensing she had to get away.
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Security situation:The situation in North Kivu is relatively calm at the moment.
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
On August 23, 2008 a wave of attacks on Christians was launched in the Kandhamal district of the Indian state of Orissa led by the Hindu nationalist organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council) and its youth organisation Bajrang Dal.
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The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is the first and only international periodical
review that monitors state actors’ actions related to the realization of the right to food. Read more...
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While official figures of newly displaced people in crowded camps around Goma are still being determined, another reality of displacement remains in the shadows: the thousands of families who have opened their modest homes to fleeing strangers.
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The first ever National Forum of “Act Development Central Asia” Alliance was successfully held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 6-7. The Forum brought together five international development agencies – ICCO (the Netherlands), DanChurchAid (DCA, Denmark), Christian Aid (United Kingdom), Norwegian Church Aid and Hungarian Interchurch Aid – and more than fifteen non-governmental organisations and microfinance institutions from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. More than 40 representatives of the organisations participated in this historic event.
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The security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remains precarious and aid groups do not yet know what effect the most recent violence will have on the latest cease fire or humanitarian situation. First hand report from ACT aid worker in DR Congo.
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After panic and lootings by retreating troops a deadly calm has fallen over Goma in Eastern Congo.
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Vast areas in several departments in Honduras are hit by massive rain and floods. 23 people have been killed amd over 22.000 have been evacuated.
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The global credit crisis will have dramatic consequences for the poorest, because those who fund
them are hit by the breakdown," says John Nduna, director of ACT International. Read more...
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ACT International has launched a US $1.7 million appeal to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people displaced by the catastrophic flooding in the Indian province of Bihar. DanChurchAid is a member of ACT International.
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As reported by DanChurchAid's partner, Lutheran World Federation (LWF), floods and landslides triggered by incessant rain since Friday (19 September 2008) have left more than 33 people dead in mid- and far-western regions of Nepal. Kailali, Kanchanpur and Doti districts (far-west Nepal) have been severely affected. DanChurchAid's partner, LWF Nepal, mobilised its rapid assessment team in the affected area. According to the national news media reports, thousands of people have been directly affected and displaced.
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Small seeds for an active civil society are starting to grow in the poor Central Asian Republic Kyrgyzstan where children have to work to get an income to the family
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Refugees are now seriously returning to South Sudan. Expectations are high but there is very little to come home to
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At least 800 people have been killed in monsoon-related accidents during the heavy June-to-September rains across India, with impoverished Bihar accounting for 24 deaths since August 23, according to a government spokesperson.
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Heavy torrential rains since August 16, 2008 in the Gambella regional state in Ethiopia have caused severe flooding, affecting thousands of people and destroying farmland and homes.
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DanChurchAid prepares a Material Aid support of 750.000 DKK for foodstuffs, sanitary and household packages for the 30.000 refugees, that fled to Russian North Ossetia from Georgian South Ossetia in early august
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After months of languishing in the hundreds of overcrowded, understaffed, and undersupplied camps, Kenya’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) are finally returning home.
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Heavy and incessant rainfall since June 16, 2008 has flooded many areas in the eastern states of Assam, Orissa and West Bengal leaving some 93 people dead and close to 2.7 million people affected.
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A large group of children gather in front of Um Gozein School in Mershing, South Darfur, filling the yard with the excited chatter of their young voices. They are lined up and eager to receive school kits being distributed by ACT-Caritas.
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The ACT Development meeting took place on a small conference centre in Lilongwe, Malawi. It was a historical moment for the ecumenical family.
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Human suffering is often visible and obvious in both natural distasters and civil conflict – hunger, injuries and people forced from their homes by destruction or violence. But often there are hidden and less visible needs of people who are among the most vulnerable in an emergency situation.
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Under the shade of a straw roof, the space is alive with chatter. Children play outside while women gather in groups to practice newly learnt skills that include making pasta and traditional mat weaving.
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As the political stalemate continues and violence associated with the highly controversial December 27th elections of 2007 escalates and spreads, camps for those displaced throughout Kenya are operating beyond their capacity.
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While political parties and outside mediators struggle to find a peaceful solution to Kenya’s election dispute, young people find a different challenge as they wrestle with crisis in a once peaceful country.
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Millions of Kenyans went to the polls to choose their president in the national elections after Christmas. But for Benta Nyipolo and hundreds of thousands of Kenyans like her, being forced from their homes in the violence sparked by the election dispute was something they did not choose.
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Rising tensions and violence in Kenya following a disputed election has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people with tens of thousands fleeing their homes.
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An ocean of gold, pink, red, yellow and green saris fill the cultural centre in the village of Madaripur, where an emergency relief distribution by ACT member, Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh (LHCB), is currently underway in response to the Cyclone Sidr emergency.
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Around 2000 families, who have been hit by cyclone Sidr, have received relief items.
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Torrential rains have hit the Central American region as a result of a low pressure system over the Yucatán Peninsula. The rain started on October 10, 2007 and continued until October 18, 2007.
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George William Odeke is a local councilperson in the flooded village of Adurukoi in the eastern Ugandan district of Katakwi. “I don’t know what will happen next year because the food is just finished. If the rain continues, we will undoubtedly need food relief,” said Mr.
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When the storms struck Pakistan in late June 2007, Barkat Ali’s home was washed away completely. “At that time I was sleeping and gradually about 4 feet of water came into my home. I and my family ran to a safe place and at 9:45 pm my home totally collapsed,” he explained.
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The monsoon season is hitting India hard. In the Indian state Orissa, DanChurchAid supports the relief work through the local partner LWSI with DKK 400000.
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Darfur: Over the past two months, more than 10,000 people have arrived in Otash camp, fleeing attacks on their homes in the Tulus and Buram localities in Sudan’s South Darfur province.
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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.
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One hundred days after the cease-fire that ended the battle between Israel and Hezbollah, many Lebanese villages are still without running water.
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Gunfire, fields alight and homes burning. Around 40,000 civilians have been forced from their homes in the eastern region of South Darfur in the past month.
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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.
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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.
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Parts of Hungary, Serbia and Romania are trying to control flood waters from the swollen Danube River, while residents of many threatened communities are being evacuated as a precaution.
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