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Gita Devi is 25 years old and mother of four children. She and her husband live in a hamlet, next to the fields they cultivate. They do not own the land around their house, but 3/4 of the crops are theirs to keep. The landowner gets the rest.
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Since 2006, DanChurchAid (DCA) in India have had a total of 6.500 goats to distribute amongst vulnerable people. All those goats was a result of Danes choosing to 'Give a Goat' for Christmas and support the work of DCA.
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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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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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In rural Bangladesh, the problems faced by the poor are changing. Where once a small plot of land was enough to pull a family out of poverty, nowadays there are different opportunities as technologies adapt and markets widen, a principle grasped by Zohra Begum and her family.
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Dushtha Shasthya Kendra and DanChurchAid's disaster response to the cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh in November 2007.
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29 year old fishermen Nobi Hussein from the village Rayenda Bazar located in the Sarankhola area in Bangladesh tells his story about that fateful night when the cyclone Sidr struck.
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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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In Mandir Mouza village, Rajarhat, Bharati Rani and Binod Chandra are bringing up their two sons in a thatched house built on the embankment of the Teesta River. It is a hard life, for the river has washed away the family home many times and swallowed up the 10 decimals of land they had bought using micro-credit from RDRS. They hope to move on soon, however, to a better life as entrepreneurs.
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Roksana Begum is not just poor, she is also homeless in the country of her birth. One of thousands of Biharis, she lives in a camp of 280 households just outside Saidpur with her husband Mohammad Ibrahim and five children. For over thirty years, this community has lived outside mainstream society, ostracised because they took they losing side in the 1971 War of Independence.
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35 years old Renu lives in Bokultolla village in Bangladesh. Her husband has some land and does farming most of the year, but at the time of the cyclone Sidr, he was away working in Chittagong, so she was alone with her daughter when the cyclone struck.
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Salma Begum is an industrious, ambitious and respected resident in her village, a member of local Federation committees. She is even planning on standing for the Union Parishad, an elected member representing the poor of her village. But this was not always the case.
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Purnima Rani is a firm believer in hard work as the way to success in life. Ten years ago, she was just an ordinary housewife but then she joined RDRS, and her life was turned around. Offered training in income-generating skills, Purnima opted for tailoring, went on a course and acquired a free sewing machine.
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DanChurchAid and the local partners LICADHO and Legal Aid Cambodia have worked together since 2004 to improve the rights of children in Cambodia.
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Farmers in Cambodias Kompong Speu province are working to make their villages more resilient to the recurring natural disasters, such as drought or floods, hitting the area as a result of changes in the climate. See the video about clean drinking water and audioslideshow about a ricebank here.
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The enormity of human deprivation among the vulnerable and destitute in India is overwhelming. A newly published paper describes the experience of living with hunger as recounted by persons from intensely insecure social groups from eight villages in Orissa, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. The research study on hunger is written by Harsh Mander, convenor of Aman Biradari, a people’s campaign for secular democracy in India. The study is funded by DanChurchAid in India.
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A flock of chickens and a hen house. This is what the 40-year-old Chanthon from Cambodia’s Battambang province got for the DKK 150 which she borrowed in December from a local lending group established by LWF Cambodia with support from DanChurchAid
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DanChurchAid is pleased to nominate Executive Director Jack Dunford and the staff of Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) for the 2008 Nansen Refugee Award.
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The dramatic price increase on basic food such as rice, maize and various cereal crops, has dire consequences for the poor in developing countries. This is reported by DanChurchAid’s representatives in Asia, Central America and Africa.
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About 1% of the Cambodian population is infected with HIV or AIDS. Cambodia's women are the new high risk group of infection. They get infected by their husbands and are, apart from the health risks, also in high risk of ending up in extreme poverty. HIV is still a stigmatizing disease in Cambodia although; however, it has changed a lot after several HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns throughout the country.
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“The memory is still very painful to me,” G. Raju recounts in a faltering vice. Yet, there was nothing he could do. The flood waves were six or seven meters high and he could not reach his house and his family. He still vividly remembers the horrible scenes of devastation the tsunami left in its wake three years ago as it swept through his coastal village in southern India.
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Three years ago, Susantha Jayalath survived the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean and devastated the coast of Sri Lanka. He lost his fishing boat and nets, but within weeks he sold his wife’s jewelry to make the down payment on a new boat. Then a war got in the way of earning a living, and life for Jayalath remains stalled long after the waves receded.
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The destruction and lost of livelihoods after cyclone Sidr is still evident in Southern Bangladesh
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DanChurchAid (DCA) has received Euro 250.000 from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department in response to the situation in Bangladesh after the Cyclone SIDR.
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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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DanChurchAid gives relief aid worth 300.000 DKK to the worst hit areas in Bangladesh.
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Thousands of lives have been destroyed by the cyclone that recently hit the coast of Bangladesh.
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The survivors from the cyclone in Bangladesh have lost everything they own. More than 200,000 domestic animals have drowned. By giving a goat through DanChurchAid’s Christmas catalogue you can help the most severely affected families.
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The Cambodian Interior Ministry recently removed four pictures from an exhibition of drawings made by juveniles in Cambodian prisons. The pictures – from the exhibition “Our Drawings” arranged by DanChurchAid – were removed and forgotten. Not unlike one of the artists, 13-year-old Sokhun who has been in prison for almost a year in Cambodia.
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The monsoon rains have stopped in the states of West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa with the onset of winter. The last rain spell was in the first week of October 2007. The flood waters have receded (except in some pockets of very low-lying areas) and people have gone back to their villages. Some people are living under polythene sheets distributed by NGOs and the government where traditional mud homes were damaged and destroyed.
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Heavy and continuous rainfall over the past five days has caused widespread flooding and the deaths of at least 13 people in the state of Tamil Nadu. The rains, also affecting the state of Andhra Pradesh, were caused by a low pressure center over the south-eastern bay off Chennai along with the north-east monsoon.
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1,6% of the population of Cambodia is living with HIV/AIDS. DanChurchAid works with HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, care and support in the rural communities.
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Four pictures were removed from the art exhibition "Our drawings" at the National Cultural Center. The drawings are made by children between the ages of 13 and 17 who were inmates in prisons in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Siem Reap provinces. The exhibition was supported by DanChurchAid.
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In West Bengal, Orissa and Bihar the monsoon rains continue. A depression that formed over the Bay of Bengal caused heavy rains from September 23 to 24, 2007 in several areas. The continuous downpour led to a rise in water level in all major river systems in the region. Calcutta was submerged under heavy waterlogging and received 44.0 cm (17.3 inches) of rain. The whole city was flooded with up to 1.5 metres (4.92 feet) of water in some areas.
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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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Some of the largest floods ever have hit parts of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Across South Asia, DanChurchAid has been providing essential water equipment and temporary shelters for people who have lost their homes to flooding.
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In Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts in Sri Lanka, DanChurchAid has been working on a project to improve the living conditions for the most vulnerable and war affected persons. The European Commission Humanitarian Department (ECHO) has provided a grant to DanChurchAid who has been responsible for the implementation of the project in partnership with a local NGO OfERR Ceylon. DCA contributed with a minor grant.
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RDRS Bangladesh has provided food relief worth over taka 18 million (equivalent to USD 261,500) to about 30,400 flood-affected people in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat Districts.
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The floods in South Asia have hit Bangladesh with enormous force, and there is an acute need for just about everything, such as food, seed grain and reconstruction, DanChurchAid representative reports from Dhaka.
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The situation in India and Bangladesh is still critical.
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Members of the global alliance, Action by Churches Together (ACT) International of which DanChurchAid is a member, continue to respond to multiple floods crises across vast regions of Asia. Reuters reports that 35 million people are affected by the crisis in India, Bangladesh and Nepal alone. China and Pakistan have also suffered torrential rains and floods in the past month.
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DanChurchAid has sent one million DKK to the relief work for the survivors of the floods in Asia, and more money is on its way.
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In India, people beneath the traditional caste system, the Dalits, are particularly badly affected by natural disasters. This summer’s monsoon flooding in India is no exception. But with disaster preparedness, disaster-proof housing and not least strong women self-help groups, things can improve.
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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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In October 2005, radio director Mam Sonando packs his toothbrush and his tie. The items are in his drawer in his office at the radio station already. Then he turns towards the two policemen who wait for him in the door. They have come to arrest him and the next four months, Mam Sonando spends in jail, charged with defamation of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen. During the next three months an additional seven journalists, human rights front men and opposition politicians get arrested for similar offences. And that's how the year 2006 began in Cambodia. With a sizeable portion of democrats in jail.
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The Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia recently moved significantly forward after a seven months long standstill.
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Life is hard for Jyotsna Pradhan. When her husband deserted her she was left to care for her elderly mother and her 4-year-old daughter. Most people in her village are poor and regular work is very hard to find. This past fall, life became even more difficult when heavy flooding struck her village in Orissa, India.
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A string of recent dedications of newly constructed post-tsunami housing in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu was reason to celebrate. But it was also an opportunity to take stock and explore ways to respond to future disasters.
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The site smells like burned tires, garbage and dirt. There are no toilets, no clean water, no roads and no houses. Nothing but hundreds of simple shelters made from wooden poles and plastic. Andong, described as the trashcan of Phnom Penh by a NGO worker, is the place where former slum dwellers reside, placed here by the government, with promises of new land, food and money. Over 1000 families are forced to call this former rice field - 25 kilometers from the city - home.
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A recently published report has documented how “caste blindness” in the Indian post-tsunami disaster recovery has exacerbated vulnerability and exclusion of the dalit communities. The study which was commissioned by the Dalit Network Netherlands (DNN) documents how international organisations, the Indian Government and local Indian organisation all contributed to the continuation of caste discrimination during the tsunami relief and recovery phase.
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Cambodian Heng was arrested by the police, when he was 12 years old. They knocked on his family's door one day and took him to the police station.
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On 1 February 2007, the EU Parliament approved a resolution asking the Indian government to stop violence against Dalits, the approx. 165 million Indians living at the bottom of the caste system.
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With support from DanChurchAid, Lutheran World Service/India (LWSI) has initiated a livelihood support and a community based disaster preparedness (CBDP) programme in 50 tsunami affected non-ocean fishing and dalit communities of Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts of Tamil Nadu state. As part of the project, women will receive special attention by way of getting vocational training for alternative livelihood options.
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Nearly 500 children are currently detained in Cambodia’s prisons. For these children, the prisons they call “home” are overcrowded, unhygienic and lacking in basic facilities. Many are detained with adults, they are regularly held in pre-trial detention that exceeds the legal time limit, and many are sentenced to prison time without any regard to their age. A coalition of local and international groups has called on the government to pass legislation to protect the children.
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The big advantage of goats – that they eat almost everything – is also a big disadvantage. Therefore, goat rearing must be accompanied by conservation of the environment.
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After 20 years on the run, Kong Pov dreams about settling as a farmer. Through the 1980s and 1990s, young Kong Pov accompanied her husband who was a Khmer Rouge soldier. The battles decided their destinations.
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Poor farmers who cooperate and share their knowledge harvest more. That is the philosophy of the Farmer Field School.
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A multiplication effect is one way that Linda Tiongco, who is working for the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International in Sri Lanka, describes the progress that has been made in the recovery from the December 26, 2004, tsunami.
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Since the tsunami hit Sri Lanka and destroyed the livelihood of thousands of people and killed several thousands, DanChurchAid has been working through local partners to provide emergency assistance and to assist the affected population in recovering and rebuilding their lives. The work is challenging as Sri Lanka is also very much affected by the ongoing conflict between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE).
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The Philippines is threatened with another typhoon. The residents have not yet recovered from the impact of Durian, which hit on November 30. As of December 14, more than 3,769 families were still being accommodated in evacuation centers in Albay province. More than 68,617 families lost their houses, while 45,199 families’ homes received partial damage. Food and non-food items are being distributed to the affected families in the evacuation centers and villages.
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Following the wrath of Typhoon Durian, which lashed the Philippines on 30 November, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared a state of emergency. The death toll is likely to exceed 1,000, with many of the casualties in the severely affected barangays in Albay Province, which were crushed by boulders and mud loosened from the slopes of Mayon Volcano by the heavy rains.
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Thanks to a big effort from about 700 volunteer refund collectors at this year's Roskilde Festival, DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival announce the record-breaking result of DKK 1.5 million (approx. € 202,000). The profits are donated to two of DanChurchAid's Cambodian partner organisation, Ponleur Kumar and Friends, who both work on preventing and fighting modern slavery.
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Rights-based approaches in Cambodia: International Director of DanChurchAid, Christian Friis Bach, has just visited LWF Cambodia programme in Sleng Village, where rights-based approaches begins to work successfully.
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28 years ago Khmer Rouge lost power in Cambodia. Only now the country seems ready to face the confrontation with the leaders responsible for the death of more than two million Cambodians.
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With the break down of the peace talks between LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka, many internally displaced persons (IDPs) have little hope of returning to their home villages. A lot of IDP camps are cut off from access to humanitarian aid as Sri Lanka conflict escalates. Mrs. Kosala, an IDP in Northern Batticaloa, tells her story.
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DanChurchAid in India is working to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life among the poorest and most marginalised groups, in particular Dalits. Dalits in India are subject to all sorts of discrimination, including untouchability. Dalit women face dual discrimination, i.e., discrimination due to both gender and caste.
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Sri Lanka is in a state of chock after unidentified men killed the Tamil National Alliance Parlementarian Mr. Nadarajah Raviraj on Friday 10th of November. A number of civil society organisations have issued a concerned statement on the deterioating human rights situation. DanChurchAid supports the statement 100 %.
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In Batticaloa district in Sri Lanka, DanChurchAid is currently working on a project to improve the living conditions for the most vulnerable tsunami and war affected persons.
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DanChurchAid’s partners in Cambodia behind pressure for a legal confrontation with the leadership of Khmer Rouge. Local partner DC-Cam (Documentation Center of Cambodia) has for years been active in the Khmer Rouge Trial and has collected 1.6 million stories from survivors to be presented at the trial.
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Human trafficking can be described as a modern-day form of slavery. Trafficking involves the transport or trade of people within and across borders for the purpose of forcing them into slavery conditions. Trafficking is a serious violation of human rights. In Cambodia, DanChurchAid works for the recognition of trafficked persons, especially women and girls, to be seen as victims with rights - in need of protection and assistance - rather than as offenders or illegal migrants.
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A year after the massive Pakistan earthquake, less than two percent of houses in the most seriously affected areas having been rebuilt. It means that hundreds of thousands of people are preparing to endure another winter without shelter, and there is much evidence to suggest that these communities are facing another humanitarian emergency.
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Sunday 8 October was the first anniversary of the worst earthquake in Pakistan for 100 years. The rebuild process is slow and almost 1.8 million survivors are facing yet another winter in makeshift accommodation and other temporary shelters. They need immediate help.
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A toolbox and basic training in a trade can be a big help for the future of quake survivors in Pakistan. After a passed trade test, the workmen can participate in the rebuilding process of their provinces affected by the earthquake, which struck Pakistan last year on October 8, 2005.
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As winter approaches the north of Pakistan once again, many of those left homeless by last October’s crippling earthquake are growing increasingly frustrated and newly afraid. Some even consider leaving their mountain villages once again to seek safety in the country’s burgeoning cities.
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Yanjin and Daguan Counties in Yunnan Province are located on an earthquake belt and have suffered several quakes (two of magnitude 5.1 and one of 4.7, with aftershocks of 2 to 3 on the Richter Scale) in July and August 2006. Although these quakes were not of a high magnitude on the Richter Scale, they were shallow (4 to 9 km in depth) and consequently caused widespread damage.
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In July, Typhoon Belis (and resulting flooding) hit China’s Hunan Province, causing direct economic losses of 4.7 billion Yuan. According to the Hunan civil affairs department, as of July 21, 7.29 million people were affected, 346 were killed, 89 were missing, and 718,000 were displaced; 338,000 hectares of cropland were destroyed; 69,000 houses collapsed, and 110,000 houses were destroyed.
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ACT members responding to floods in several Indian states have turned their attention to the flood situation in southern and southwestern districts of Rajasthan, which has worsened since the third week of August.
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Extreme weather has ravaged China in recent months, resulting in disaster for many regions. ACT International partner Amity Foundation is responding to the crisis in Guangxi province.
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While the districts of Banke and Bardia in mid-western Nepal are being severely affected by monsoon rains, the effects of a drought from late 2005 to May 2006 and an April hailstorm are now becoming more critical in ten hill districts of northwestern Nepal.
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DanChurchAid and seven other ACT members in Sri Lanka call for free access of aid agencies to provide humanitarian assistance.
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India: Low pressure in the Bay of Bengal intensified into a deep depression, causing torrential rains in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. In addition, the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra have suffered widespread flooding following rains over the last weeks.
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Seventeen local employees of a French charity have been found shot dead in the strife-torn town of Muttur in eastern Sri Lanka. Together with other humanitarian NGOs in Sri Lanka, DanChurchAid urgently request that an independent investigation of the murders is conducted as soon as possible.
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The international evaluation of the 2004 Asian tsunami response, published Friday 14 July 2006, emphasised that local people extended the most important relief to the tsunami victims. DanChurchAid agrees.
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An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck off the southwest coast of Java on July 17, triggering a two-meter wave that crashed into the southern coast of Indonesia's Java island.
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Tuesday's bomb attacks on Mumbai's train network have killed more than 180 people. The first blast went off at about 18:30 local time (13:00 GMT) Tuesday 11 July, during the rush hour.
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Efforts against human trafficking pays off – but trafficking remains. DanChurchAid in Cambodia focuses on assisting young women subject to trafficking to find alternative livelihoods.
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DanChurchAid has been working with partners in Sri Lanka since the 1980s, supporting in particular assistance to people displaced by the civil war in Sri Lanka. The overall framework for DanChurchAid's work in Sri Lanka includes assistance for internally displaced persons, relief and rehabilitation and gender equality.
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The Safe Migration Project, led by Mith Samlanh/Friends, in Cambodia works to prevent internal and external unsafe migration and trafficking. The main compound for Mith Samlanh/Friends is now being sold!
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DanChurchAid activities in Sri Lanka is implemented through local partnerships and networks with like-minded organisations, ecumenical and secular, based on a shared vision of common goals.
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DanChurchAid activities in Sri Lanka are implemented through local partnerships with like-minded organisations, ecumenical and secular, based on a shared vision of common goals.
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The Dalit community was given the short shrift in the post tsunami scenario both by the government and the DCA partner the Lutheran World Service – India/ACT International included the 50 Dalit families of Thirumullaivasal village in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu state among its permanent housing beneficiaries.
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Case study in India after tsunami 2005 by DanChurchAid partner Lutheran World Service/India
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The money from the humanitarian bottle refund collection at Roskilde Festival 2005, which raised more than 400.000 DDK (approx. USD 66,514), was donated in Cambodia last Tuesday.
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Finishing 2005 with serious violations of basic human rights, the ruling government seems to devote the New Year to test the strength of the 13 year old and fragile democracy in Cambodia.
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Velmurugam (36) was repairing his fishing nets on the seashore when the Tsunami hit his village, Anichankuppam, in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu.
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Govindan and Nilavati were a happy couple with four children, whose ages ranged from 8 to 15. Govindan, a fisherman and a boat owner in a small village in Tamil Nadu, earned around Rs 15,000 a month. Then came the Tsunami that tore apart their village and lives.
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When Anjuman (14), Appu (10), Shiva (8), Jeevaratnam (6) and Anbarasi (4) lost their mother, Maleu, to the tsunami, their father also deserted them. But not before getting the compensation money from the government for his wife’s death.
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India and Sri Lanka have received the majority of the relief aid provided by DanChurchAid. DanChurchAid received DKK 74 million (approx. USD 12 million) in connection with the tsunami.
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DanChurchAid received DKK 74 million (approx. USD 12 million) in connection with the tsunami. In Denmark, hundreds of persons volunteered to help collect money for the victims of the tsunami.
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After the tsunami 26 December 2004, DanChurchAid has worked in a number of fishing villages in India; rebuilding permanent houses, distributing boats, engines and fishing nets, and helping people restart their businesses.
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During the reconstruction phase of the tsunami catastrophe in Sri Lanka, DanChurchAid has focussed on building temporary shelters and helping people regaining income and thus returning to a normal, everyday life as far as possible.
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After several sleepless nights with his mind on the many earthquake victims in Pakistan, a 94-year-old man in Denmark decided to take matters into his own hands: He remortgaged his house and donated DKK 1 million (approx. USD 157,015) to DanchurchAid for the thousands of people in Pakistan whose homes and livelihoods have been devastated by the earthquake.
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DanChurchAid has raised over DKK 12.2 million (approx. USD 2 million) for the thousands of people in Pakistan and India whose homes and livelihoods have been devastated by the earthquake
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