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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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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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Within only 18 month, Bangladesh has been severely hit by two cyclones. In November 2007 it was cyclone Sidr causing thousands of deaths and massive devastation. In late May 2009, it was cyclone Aila, causing major flooding, further deaths and destruction.
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In Milima village in Zambia’s Southern Province Women for Change are working hard to improve the life for themselves, their children and their community. They are combining traditional values with new ways of seeing and doing things. In doing so, they hope that future generations will stay in the rural areas and improve their lives there.
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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.
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Even paper is not allowed inside. Nor is glass. Tens of thousands of families can’t replace the windows in their homes that were blown out during the war.
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Glass, metal and silicone are just a few of the things that are needed to repair the damages caused by the Israeli bombing of Gaza. But since it is nearly impossible to get goods and building materials into Gaza, the Palestinian people have developed their own solution: they have gone underground.
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In order to get basic necessities into Gaza, the Palestinian people have developed their own solution: they dig tunnels from buildings on the Gazan side of the border over to the Egyptian side. But while the tunnels may provide temporary relief from strangulation, like so much else in this conflict, it’s an absurd and useless solution.
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The flow of people in – and, more importantly, out – of Gaza, has all but stopped, including exit permits for medical patients in desperate need of treatment in Israel and occupied Jerusalem. But while many in Gaza are trying in vain to get out, we were trying to get in.
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An inspiring bouquet of hope, the Tsunami Tales is a collection of real life stories of people who build their lives after the devastating Tsunami hit Asia in December of 2004.
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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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On 20th of May Dan Church Aid marked that there was 200 days till COP 15 – the international climate summit in Copenhagen.
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DCA supports Astha, an NGO working in Southern Rajasthan since 1989. Astha has - among a number of other activities - initiated several organisations to empower widows and other single women.
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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.
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On 12 May 2009 Dan Church Aid Malawi hosted a land mark conference on “Economic Empowerment of Women – Call to Action towards Gender Equality” as one of its commitments as a MDG 3 Torchbearer to “do something extra” towards gender equality and women empowerment under the National MDG 3 Call to Action Campaign.
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I support the recommendations of the Africa Commission – but remember that “you cannot use a report on primary schools to implement a tax reform”, warns Christian Friis Bach, International Director, DanChurchAid.
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Ekta Parishad works to organize and mobilize tribal and landless communities on land right issues.
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100,000 people try to escape from the violent fights between the Sri Lankan government forces and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) who have just turned their lives into an Armageddon. DanChurchAid is ready with relief aid to the refugees.
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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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Remembering the victims
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On Tuesday 24 March 2009 Fadia Daibes, DanChurchAid’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, was killed in a car accident on her way home from work. Seven others were injured.
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Newly published report on climate changes argues that the emerging climate crisis must be seen against the backdrop of an ongoing development crisis, and that it is unacceptable and unrealistic to expect those struggling against poverty to focus their limited resources on averting climate change.
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DanChurchAid supports 496 families who had their land grabbed by the Cambodian army.
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The result of DanChurchAid's Parish Collection 2009 was 16 million Danish kroner (2.715 million USD/2.147 million EUR), which is one million more than last years result.
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On 6 January 2009, the Ethiopian parliament passed the long awaited - and feared – new bill on voluntary associations and organisations.
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DCA HMA started in November 2006 to address the threat from cluster munitions of the recent war July-August 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon through the implementation of a BAC project.
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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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Fellowship of Christian Councils in East and Southern Africa (FOCCISA) met on 2nd and 3rd July 2008 in Gaborone, Botswana and discussed the problems Zimbabwe is going through at the moment.
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Where have all the young men gone, gone to Russia everyone," might be the modified refrain of a folk song in many a rural village in Tajikistan, at least for the women left behind. This is the 4th part in the series on self help groups in Central Asia, written by Peter Kenny.
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DanChurchAid played host to a number of activities at this year’s Roskilde, related to both the volunteer refund work and the humantohuman campaign focus on the DR Congo: “Fair Phone – Fair Future.” These activities were symbolic of the often-unfair mining practices that are behind the production of the many mobile phones we buy and use every day.
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Roskilde Festival could not exist without the help of its many volunteers. Around 23.000 out of Roskildes maximum of 105.000 guests are volunteering as security, chefs, parking guards, sanitation workers and last but not least; refund collectors. While the volunteer refund collectors of DanChurchAid are an equal part of this essential festival element, the work they do and the information they share will travel far beyond the borders of Denmark – and Europe.
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DanChurchAid has passed an examination and is now certified as a responsible organisation, which fulfils international standards.
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Margarita Zobnina, a medical biologist in the nursing profession, joined a women's group in her native Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, at a time when women faced not only increasing impoverishment but also loneliness.
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Faith based organisations (FBOs) have a unique possibility and responsibility to address one of the most important drivers of the aids pandemic, namely gender inequality. View the position paper "Human Rights, HIV and AIDS prevention and Gender Equality", which has been co-signed by DanChurchAid's sister agencies: Christian Aid, Norwegian Church Aid, FinnChurchAid, ICCO, Brot fur die Welt and Kerk in Actie.
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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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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. Meet them in our audioslideshows and videos.
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A video on deployment in Congo
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The poor people in the development countries are the ones who must pay the biggest price for the climate changes even though it is largely our way of living in the rich countries which contributes the most to create the climate changes.
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Mobile phone batteries from at least four leading mobile phone producers contain cobalt from DR Congo. These companies run the risk of supporting illegal export and unfair mining practices, which often involve severe human rights abuses. A report by DanWatch, May 30 2008. Commissioned by DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival Copenhagen.
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Mine clearance is thorough and meticulous work and in DR Congo highly influenced by weather and vegetation. This video shows a DanChurchAid deminer in action.
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On May 30 in Dublin, cluster bomb survivors and campaigners welcomed the formal adoption of the Cluster Munitions Convention by over 100 countries. This historic treaty bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of all existing and future cluster bombs. To keep pressure on governments and to ensure that the treaty enters into force, campaigners have launched the People’s Treaty. Sign up now.
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Increasing prices of food heavily affect the poorest people in Honduras who can no longer afford to buy enough food every day – the increased production of biofuels in the US is one of the main causes
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On Saturday the 15th of March 2008, a large explosion happened on the outskirts of the Albanian capital, Tirana.
A civilian company was working with dismantling of several tons of old ammunition – a remnant for the communist era in Albania, and by mistake set of a large explosion.
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A civilian company was working with dismantling of several tons of old ammunition – a remnant for the communist era in Albania, and by mistake set of a large explosion.
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The village of Kamumba was once a prosperous fishing community. But during the five year long war it was turned in to a military camp. Though the war is over, the mines remain, preventing the villagers from returning.
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DCA's Humanitarian Mine Action programme concentrates on clearing agricultural land of mines, in order to link mine clearance with food security for the population in affected areas.
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Millions of poor people are in danger of being affected by hunger and famine as prices on food will remain on a high level during the next ten years. This is predicted in a new report ahead of the summit in Rome where the only item on the agenda is the global food crisis
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In light of the global climate changes one of the biggest challenges the world has to face in this century is to create food security for all human beings.
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Line Brylle has just returned home after working with a Humanitarian Mine Action Programme for two years in one of the most war torn countries in the world.
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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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Most people know of fair trade coffee and bananas. But when it comes to mobile phones and other electronic equipment, the trade is far from fair. DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival aim to change this now.
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The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) has granted 24 million DKK for DanChurchAid’s HMA programmes in Africa and Asia.
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Prosecutors in Honduras are on hunger strike now for more than one month as a protest against corruption, impunity and gross political interference in the Justice system.
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Participants of the Second Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference in Moscow have confirmed to each other that many positive developments have been taking place since the first conference was held in 2006.
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The HIV/AIDS situation in the Russian Federation is worsening, and the epidemic may spread, a new report from DanChurchAid concludes.
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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 fight against global poverty is threatened by the increasing prices on basic foods such as rice, maize and wheat.
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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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Read the new annual report DanChurchAid 2007-2008 (Spanish or English) about DanChurchAid’s and partners’ work in the field and how popular support and campaigns were unfolded in Denmark in 2007.
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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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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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Ms. Ulla Tørnæs, Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, has established an MDG3 Champion Network of internationally prominent politicians, public and private sector leaders, and media and civil society representatives. The campaign - MDG3 Global Call to Action – focuses on the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG 3) on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. DanChurchAid's General Secretary Henrik Stubkjær is part of the MDG3 Champion Network.
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According to a new report published by DanChurchAid, the number of AIDS orphans is projected to exceed 20 million worldwide by 2010. In 2005 that same figure was 15 million orphans. It is a tragedy of enormous dimensions and it puts a tremendous strain on the traditional family safety net and community structures.
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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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DanChurchAid (DCA) Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) program in DR Congo has signed a one year contract with the AECI, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation under the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for an amount of 554.713 Euros to finance Mine Action activities in Eastern Congo.
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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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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and DanChurchAid (DCA) hosted an international seminar 'Protection of Civilians - Learning from Darfur' in Copenhagen autumn 2007. A report has been made based on the seminar. It can be downloaded from www.r2p.eu.
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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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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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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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DanChurchAid gives relief aid worth 300.000 DKK to the worst hit areas in Bangladesh.
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According to a new report by UNAIDS, the Number of HIV positive in the world is not as high as earlier assumed. DanChurchAid is pleased with the news, but points out that the fight against AIDS is far from over.
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Thousands of lives have been destroyed by the cyclone that recently hit the coast of Bangladesh.
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Which product has NOT been recalled from the market because it can be fatal to children?
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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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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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A humanitarian problem that will not go away quickly: Recent killings of African Union peacekeepers and World Food Programme contract drivers combined with detentions of humanitarian workers in the conflict-ridden Darfur region of western Sudan are just the latest examples of a deteriorating situation, which is prompting increased anxiety by those affected by the ongoing crisis, as well as by those responding to the emergency, soon to enter its fifth year.
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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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Perparim started to work with humanitarian demining in 2001 as Team Leader, and has been working for DanChurchAid since the spring of 2005. At present time Perparim is working as one of the two National Supervisors in charge of the daily demining activities, in addition he is trained as EOD operator with the responsibility of destroying unexploded bombs along the Albanian/Kosovo border.
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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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Watch how the Ugandan NGO KADP works with drought preparedness in Karamoja and how they help improve the quality of life for the Karamojongs, who are among the poorest groups in Uganda.
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Interview with Peter Ramazani, a Congolese Chief of Operations in training within DanChurchAid's DR Congo Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) Programme.
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"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."
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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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Religion and faith plays an important role for an effective response to HIV and AIDS, but joint efforts sensitive to religion between faith-based organisation and governmental and civil society organisations have proven difficult. Now a new comprehensive book can help overcome the obstacles and bring new and more effective partnerships to life.
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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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New report: The Fight against AIDS is the Fight for Better Health Service. Lack of Health Care Workers and well functioning Health Care Systems are some of the biggest obstacles in stopping the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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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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With thousands of people forcefully driven from their homes into overcrowded camps, where both resources and opportunities are short, disputes have become a frequent feature of life for many of Darfur’s displaced.
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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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Rose Imilima lives in the eastern Ugandan district of Katakwi. She never imagined that she would spend her life struggling to survive. In fact, she never thought she would spend her life alone, but when her husband died, she was left without a means to support herself.
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One evening towards the end of June, a crowd of 300 people or so gather round the local football pitch in Zalingei town in West Darfur. For the first time ever, a football match is being played between young people from Khamsadegaig camp and the local youth team from Zalingei. The match, organised by ACT-Caritas, is an effort to bridge the gap between those displaced by the conflict and the local community.
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Danish relief organisations like others in Europe should do more to defend humanitarian principles in the EU, says the president of a European NGO network
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In South Darfur, another 3,000 people have been forced to flee their homes because of brutal attacks on their villages, adding their number to the more than 2.5 million others in Darfur that have suffered the same fate. The conflict has killed at least 200,000 people since violence escalated in 2004.
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Five months ago, Lino Lokwkawa and his family came out of hiding from the mountains. They had fled to escape the violence during the 20-year civil war in south Sudan. Now, the Lokwkawa family and others have begun returning home to Ikotos County in Eastern Equatoria and are re-establishing their lives in the village of Longairo.
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One of the poorest parts of Ethiopia got an extraordinary visit in mid June. The Danish Minister of Development, Ulla Tørnæs, visited the DanChurchAid agriculture component of the Ethio-Danish Joint programme in North Wollo.
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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 Mennonite Central Committee, a long-standing partner of ACT-Caritas, sent over 40,000 blankets to the Darfur Emergency Program (DERO), to assist conflict-affected communities in the province. But these are no ordinary blankets - they have been individually hand-made by members of the Mennonite community in the U.S.
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The Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia recently moved significantly forward after a seven months long standstill.
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On Sunday 17th June, an ACT-Caritas employee was shot and killed on his way home from work in West Darfur. ”This killing shows how cruel and chaotic the situation is in Darfur. It’s unacceptable to do humanitarian work in this environment but we have to continue. A lot of people are dependent on our help,” says Lisa Henry, Relief Director in DanChurchAid.
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Tuesday June 26th DanChurchAid will host the VOICE Nordic Round Table Meeting at the Europa Commission. Join us for a day of discussions covering important topics and trends currently facing NGOs.
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Annual Report 2006-2007: Every year DanChurchAid reviews its work worldwide. The review highlights key operations and development activities, and includes the year's financial statements of where the money went; where the money came from; and what the money was spent on.
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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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DanChurchAid has just published a new folder about its work in the fight against AIDS. It presents the many different ways in which the disease can and have to be fought, and it is rich on examples of projects that in different ways fight the disease, its causes and help stop the spread of the infection.
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DCA partner Circles of Hope in Zambia is working to improve awareness of HIV/AIDS, to encourage people to attend counseling and testing, they fight against stigmatization by openly declaring their status. They encourage positive living and try some income generating activities to help the affected families.
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In the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bisjkek, thousands of people from all parts of the country have camped on the city square to participate in large demonstrations against President Bakiev’s regime.
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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.
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Sudan: A sand track leads north from Zalingei to the village of Abata, but these days few people travel along it. The track is flanked by tall acacia trees, and every so often the track cuts through a group of deserted, roofless shells of buildings. The countryside is silent. Where there were villages, only the wind now speaks through the trees.
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Not every year can tell good news about the harvest in Ethiopia. But after last year’s drought which affected millions of people, and huge floods affecting another hundreds of thousands, the Ethiopian government announces that a good harvest is expected in 2007.
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On Thursday, March 15, DanChurchAid and 20 of its local partners paid a notable visit to the Ethiopian Parliament. The group saw the parliament in session in the morning and in the afternoon the group met with chairpersons of three Standing Committees. This is the first time in a long while that the civil society and members of Parliament engage in a dialogue and the meeting was mentioned in the evening news on the national television channel, ETV.
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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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19.000 voluntary collectors all over Denmark spent a couple of hours on a lovely sunny Sunday and ensured that DanChurchAid’s annual door-to-door Parish Collection reached a fantastic result of DKK 14 million (EURO 1,880,240).
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46 countries have now committed themselves to a process that should lead to a convention banning cluster munitions in 2008. "This is a great step forward to prevent new victims and justice for the ones that have already fallen victims to cluster munitions,” says Henrik Stubkjær, General Secretary in DanChurchAid.
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"Tomorrow will hopefully be the day when the governments officially agree to continue the Oslo process on banning cluster munitions. To continue the process that will sooner, rather than later prohibit cluster bomblets. Hopefully the deadline will be clearly set and be 2008," reports Eva Veble, Head of Humanitarian Mine Action in DanChurchAid from the Oslo conference on cluster munitions.
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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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Eva Veble, Head of Humanitarian Mine Action in DanChurchAid reports from the Oslo conference on cluster munitions.
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Blog from Oslo conference on cluster munitions: "Even though I'm more of an Adidas person myself, the Nike slogan is the one ringing in my head all day during the Civil Society Forum on Banning Cluster Munitions held in the Oslo Nobel Peace Institue," Eva Veble, Head of Humanitarian Mine Action in DanChurchAid reports from the conference.
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Press release: Nordic church related agencies call for a freeze and a new international treaty prohibiting cluster munitions.
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Providing remote rural communities with access to health care has been one of the principal achievements of ACT/Caritas’s health care program in Kubum locality, south Darfur. A mobile clinic has been just part of the solution. However, as funding reduces, sustainability is now a major concern.
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The cold weather in Russia during the last few weeks has caused many frost-bites among the homeless in Sct. Petersburg. The hostel of Nochlezkha has just succeeded in organising a local collection of clothes, but is now appealing to the Danish population for help to food and health care.
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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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Firewood collection: A threat to women and a threat to the environment. ACT/Caritas’s Darfur Emergency Response Operation is working on initiatives to protect both.
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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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Recent flooding in Luanda, Benguela and other western Angolan provinces have resulted in the deaths of some 90 people and have contributed to a worsening cholera outbreak.
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Two Danish and three local employees were caught in a teargas battle when an allegedly illegal demonstration was dispersed with teargas by Ugandan Police on January 26th. The group was returning from a workshop outside Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
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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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Flash floods have left thousands of people homeless and crops washed away in the Karonga district, about 300 km north of the capital Lilongwe, Malawi. According to Karonga District Commissioner, more than 20 villages have been completely flattened by the floods.
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A short, stocky man from Uganda is shouting from one end of the room: "They took as slaves, they took our minerals, our oil, our resources. Their growth and wealth is ours too. But we can do it ourselves. We can get stronger and independent if we want. And if we are allowed." Chrisitan Friis Bach, International Director in DanChurchAid, reports from World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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“Women for Change” is a grassroots organisation in Zambia with the dynamic leader Emily Sikazwe, who has spent a lot of time fighting government persecution of the free press and of the opposition. Stine Leth-Nissen, Head of Advocacy in DanChurchAid met Emily Sikazwe at the World Social Forum.
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"We’re seated on dusty white plastic chairs on the green grass in one of the enormous tents where meetings, workshops and conferences are taking place at the World Social Forum in Nairobi. And then Emily Sikazwe asks me whether we have any traditional chiefs in i Danmark." Stine Leth-Nissen, DanChurchAid journalist, reports from World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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For a couple of days I have been dining with three gentlemen who are all taking part in the World World Social Forum. Their everyday work centers on human rights that are not anything to be taken for granted in their countries. Stine Leth-Nissen, DanChurchAid journalist, reports from World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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On Saturday, World Social Forum 2007 was opened in the big park in Nairobi with the flamboyant name Uhuru, Freedom. Stine Leth-Nissen, DanChurchAid journalist, reports from the opening.
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Poor people are at higher risk of HIV infection. Poverty increases the vulnerability to the disease and it makes the already poor poorer. These are some of the conclusions in a new report done by one of DanChurchAid’s partners in Zambia.
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New technology from Saab’s Danish branch may improve working conditions and stabilise communication in disaster areas. On Friday, 5 January 2007, Saab Denmark won the innovation competition ‘Communication in Disasters’.
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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.
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Darfur: As the sun rises from behind the mountain, boys in long, white shirts, known as “jelabia,” hurry through the streets of Nertiti, kicking up the dust with their feet.
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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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"It is about empowering the poor to fight for their universal rights,” says International Director Christian Friis Bach. In DanChurchAid’s partner-based programme work, there are more and more examples of a rights-based approach in action. The rights-based approach is about identification, influence and assisting poor people in organising and involving themselves. It is about enabling the poor to fight for their universal rights.
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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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50,000 Danes got a goat, a flock of fowls, a swarm of bees or one of the other Christmas presents from DanChurchAid’s gift catalogue. The campaign ”Give a goat” sold for DKK 9.5 million (approx. EURO 1.275 million).
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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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The Christmas present idea ’Give a Goat’ is a tremendous success. So far, the Danes have bought more than 10,000 goats – and goats are now being distributed worldwide.
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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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To mark World AIDS Day (December 1), the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC), a local partner of ACT-Caritas, has organized three days of events in Nyala town, the capital of South Darfur state.
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DanChurchAid is challenging Christmas shoppers across Denmark to give a gift with real meaning and help people around the world share the celebration and have the chance for a better future.
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DanChurchAid and many Danish NGOs are very sceptical about the Danida funded project “Empower the poor – Engage the Danes”, initially known as the Copenhagen Consensus Competition. Civil society actors in five selected African countries are invited to participate in the government competition and submit project ideas within four thematic areas. Subsequently, five famous Danes will select five winner projects, which will be presented to Danida for funding.
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World AIDS Day, 1 December is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS. DanChurchAid marks World AIDS Day by focusing on the AIDS pandemic, the young people and the role of the church in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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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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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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DanChurchAid’s humanitarian mine action programme in eastern DR Congo has recently created a new team for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) tasks. During the first week's work in Uvira the team destroyed 108 UXOs - and that is only the beginning.
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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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Danchurchaid urgently requests the Danish government to support the Norwegian initiative on Cluster Munitions and to participate in a conference that Norway is hosting at the beginning of 2007.
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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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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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Momentum is growing in Geneva for new negotiations towards a new international law on cluster munitions. Support for this new cluster munition treaty has jumped from 6 to 18 states in the first week of the Conventional Weapons Review Conference and comes as a new accord will enter into force on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) that does not sufficiently address the problem of cluster munitions.
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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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With the explosion of the last landmine in the remote mountainous area in north eastern Albania, DanChurchAid marked the exit of Albania with a blast after working with humanitarian mine action in the country since 2002.
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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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"Working rights-based is a major challenge, but organisations like DanChurchAid can help combat this challenge by commiting to long-term support," states DanChurchAid's Indian partners Jagori and Sahanivasa.
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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.
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Development of the mine clearance system WADS enters a new and exciting phase. During the past twelve months, the big mine clearance system WADS has been tested in very difficult areas in eastern Angola. When the system is fully developed, the WADS should be able to clear roads much faster than ever before and thus open areas for development and traffic. And the need is huge in the country stricken by civil war for decades.
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After many months of hard work, the new DanChurchAid demining team in Angola is now ready to do their first official hand-over of a piece of land. With detectors, small shovels, brushes, and hands, the 40 deminers have inch by inch gone through every spot of the more than 3.3 hectare large area.
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There will be a special tax on all flights from a number of destinations this year. The returns from the taxes are to support the fight against tuberculoses, malaria and HIV/AIDS all over the world. These three diseases kill millions of people each year, and are a great hindrance for development in poor countries.
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Seminar programme, 9 November, 2006, on the challenges and experiences in working with rights-based approaches in development. DanChurchAid and other Danish NGOs debate lessons learnt from rights-based work.
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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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DanChurchAid works with progressive forces within Israeli and Palestinian civil societies to reinforce democracy and respect for human rights, and to support efforts for sustainable peace and justice.
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For some of the internally displaced people living in camps in Darfur, it is now safe to go home. However, those who can go home are not Darfurians; they are the displaced from southern Sudan who, two decades ago, fled fighting in their homeland.
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A series of fires have since mid June until the end of September ravaged and destroyed an estimated 1.500 houses in 8 villages in and around Salamabila in Southeastern Maniema Province in the eastern DR Congo.
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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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In September, DanChurchAid DR Congo programme based in Kalemie, Katanga Province, received an important visit by Miss Monika Tortschanoff, Human Rights and Civil Society representative of the European Commission Delegation in DR Congo and Mr Harouna Ouedraogo, Programme Manager for United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC) in DR Congo.
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In a field, 5 km outside of Kalemie in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 men and 13 women have been training for more than three weeks. Ten of these trainees will form part of two new teams that are to work with humanitarian mine clearance under the "Humanitarian Mine Action Program", funded by Europeaid with 940 000 Euros and running from the April 1, 2006, until March 31, 2008.
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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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In Kitgum, the relationship between the Church of Uganda and the Uganda country program of the Lutheran World Federation is a good example of ACT members' close working relationship. There is an old adage that says, “Two heads are better than one.” Adapted to a case of humanitarian organizations working in situations of emergency relief - two working together is better than one - the adage rings true.
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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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Despite intense world pressure, Sudan still resists UN force in Darfur. Sudan faces escalating world pressure in coming weeks to reverse its dogged opposition to the dispatch of a large UN force in war-torn Darfur where UN officials are warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis, writes ReliefWeb.
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DanChurchAid and 20 other Danish NGOs call on the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Per Stig Møller to place conflicts, which are based on trade with natural resources such as coltan used in mobile phones, on the agenda of the Security Council.
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Muslims and Christians find bonds during the war between the Lebanese Hezbollah and Israeli forces. A million Lebanese fled the war zones to safer places in Lebanon. The majority of those who fled were Shia Muslims, many of whom received protection in Christian areas.
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DanChurchAid works with access to health care in the West Bank/Gaza. The right to access humanitarian aid and services is a human right that includes access to adequate and affordable primary health care. In the context of marginalisation of international humanitarian law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Palestinian population is effectively deprived of this right.
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DanChurchAid supports ACT member the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) in Beirut. MECC is cooperating closely with other NGOs and with the Lebanese authorities.
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People living in camps in Darfur depend on humanitarian aid agencies for all their basic needs: food, water, shelter and essential household items. But with community centers in eleven camps, ACT-Caritas is providing something more: These centers help people overcome trauma.
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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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In recent months, following attacks by armed militias in Chad, hundreds of refugees from Darfur have fled back across the border into Sudan. Too afraid of the militias to return to their villages, they are sheltering in the town of Juguma.
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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 member delivers supplies to villages in south of Lebanon. The United Nations estimates that a quarter of a million individuals, forced from their homes by fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, have already returned to their homes in the south of Lebanon. Although the return began soon after the fighting ceased, the humanitarian crisis is not over, as residents try to resume their lives in areas ravaged by days of heavy bombing.
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Darfur: One boy dies, houses collapse, crops destroyed and water sources contaminated in one of the worst floods Kubum has seen for years. As residents of Kubum started their day’s work on the morning of Thursday, August 10, water started flowing into the town and the villages of Falanduge and Nyilela. Roads were turned into streams, gardens into swamps, and houses into basins of water.
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Over the past few months, humanitarian organizations in Darfur have become the focus of armed attacks, forcing a suspension of humanitarian activities in certain areas. ACT-Caritas water committees continued to work during the suspensions, providing clean water to their communities. But if the pattern of violence is sustained, will they be able to cope?
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With the Israeli retreat from the south of Lebanon, the Lebanese army continues to deploy its troops in the region, the first time in 40 years that it has witnessed the presence and control of the Lebanese army.
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A sun, some flowers and many, many birds. Children of Lebanon have been drawing pictures to show their dreams for themselves and their country. For weeks, drawings had shown war, death, tankers and bombs, the children’s pencils revealing their experiences of terror. But with their thoughts steered away from the war, the children began to show happier subjects in their artwork.
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ACT Ethiopia Forum members - DanChurchAid, Christian Aid, Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), Lutheran World Federation (LWF), and Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) - are preparing to respond to floods in Ethiopia. The response will be implemented mainly through EECMY’s South West Synod in Omo Valley and EOC in Dira Dawa region.
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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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In Nyala, the principal town in south Darfur, some youths have chosen to fight. But they have taken up arms against a very different opponent to that of other armed groups - they are fighting against HIV/AIDS.
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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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DanChurchAid's local partner Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) reports that four weeks into the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, Lebanon continues to bear the brunt of the fighting.
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A partner of ACT member Christian Aid working in Lebanon has suspended work in a nursery it runs for Palestinian refugees after an Israeli missile attack last night.
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Beirut is tense today after Israeli forces destroyed bridges along the only highway from the Lebanese capital out of the country.
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The United Nations yesterday upped its estimate for the number of internally displaced people who have fled the fighting in Lebanon.
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Hundreds of families who have spent two months sheltering in school buildings now have their own individual shelters.
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The eyes of the world are currently focused on Lebanon in the Middle East, but in Gaza, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, where more than a hundred Palestinians have been killed in the conflict during the last month, the situation is equally critical.
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People waving white flags continue to drive towards Beirut, fleeing the southern part of their country. They are leaving behind not only their homes, but also lives that in many respects were characterised by the rebuilding of their country since the last war. Today, their reality is very different. In the words of a 73-year old woman: “We are afraid of what lies ahead over the next few days. We are afraid for the children of Lebanon.”
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The establishment of self help groups is an efficient method to fight poverty; this is the experience of DanChurchAid’s partners in Kazakhstan.
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The Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), the local member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International in Lebanon, continues to reach out to people who have been displaced by the Israeli bombardment of their country.
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Villages across Ukambani district outside Machackos, Kenya, each received 24 kilograms of corn flour distributed by the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church, a local partner of Church World Service, which in turn is a member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International.
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A coordination assessment team for the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International today arrived in the Lebanese capital Beirut to support the work of its local member Middle East Council of Churches (MECC).
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People living in camps in South Darfur continue to live in fear.
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The health clinic in Garsila is finding it hard to cope with an influx of patients. There are not enough staff and not enough drugs to treat the sick.
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DanChurchAid is very concerned about the confirmed use of cluster munitions in the populated areas of Lebanon by Israel.
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ACT member starts much-needed distribution of relief items to residents of Beirut.
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On 12 June Israel launched an offensive against Lebanon following the capture of two of its soldiers by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
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The people of Mershing are living in fear of another militia attack. Only five months ago, the town was raided, and 55,000 people were displaced.
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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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The displaced people of Darfur have started to call for justice and protection from international forces.
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Since 2002 DanChurchAid has cooperated with Roskilde Music Festival about the humanitarian focus and the humanitarian deposit collection at the festival. The money raised from the humanitarian bottle refund collection 2006 will be donated to DanChurchAid partners in Cambodia.
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Kitgum District has been one of the hardest-hit areas during the long-running conflict in Northern Uganda. Insecurity and fear of attacks from Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels as well as the Karamojong have dislodged an enormous number of people from their homes, forcing them into IDP camps under the protection of the Ugandan People's Defense Force.
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Community organizes to find solutions, but livelihoods move in new directions.
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In a unique co-peration, ACT and Caritas have shared their resources to work together to help many of the 1.9 million internally displaced people in Darfur.
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Access to essential medical treatment and medicines at the Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) continues to be difficult as the Israelis have blockaded the West Bank and Gaza.
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10 partner organisations met on June 13-14 with DanChurchAid to develop the ECCA programme on ‘Access to Basic Social Services’.
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From the Katondwe Mission Hospital in Zambia the Sisters and local volunteers work hard to fight HIV/AIDS. Katondwe is one of eight project sights in the Danida/DCA funded FCCT programme; a programme that works to spread a “social vaccine” against the HIV/AIDS virus in Zambia.
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More than 500 drought-affected families in the Machakos region of Kenya received maize through a relief program coordinated by Church World Service (CWS), a member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, and its local partner, the Africa Brotherhood Church (ABC).
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HIV and AIDS have scoured Kenya with many early deaths, leaving behind children, wives, mothers and grandmothers. Twelve million children in sub-Saharan Africa have been orphaned by AIDS, and the number grows daily.
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While much of Kenya is experiencing the rainy season, in Masongaleni of Kibwezi, within Kenyan's Makueni District, there has been only one millimeter of rainfall.
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Over the last month, some 4,000 families have fled to Nyala in South Darfur to escape the fighting between militia and rebel groups in Gereida and militia attacks on villages around Buram, an area that lies south of Nyala. They have sought refuge in overcrowded camps surrounding the town. For many of the people displaced by the conflict, Nyala seems their safest option for now.
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GrannyAid is a new, joint initiative between DaneAge Association and DanChurchAid with the aim of assisting elderly people in need in the former Soviet Republic, Kyrgyzstan through adoptions.
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The role of the church in Sudan is far from finished. After the peace agreement between the north and the south, there is a need for information, reconciliation and also integration of the returning refugees.
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Although the floods in Eastern Europe have faded from the news, the situation remains critical in parts of Romania, reports AIDRom, a member of the global alliance ACT International.
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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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The peace deal between the government of Sudan and the main southern rebel movement the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement signed in January 2005 has taken its first steps forward. On 10 May a joint military ceasefire committee met to discuss how to implement the peace deal which officially ends one of Africa’s longest and deadliest wars.
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It is a happy day for the two DanChurchAid deminers Mayumbu Kamenga aged 42 and Mbungu Vangu aged 38. They have just been demobilised from the national Congolese army, in which they both served almost half of their lives, 23 years and 18 years respectively.
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More than 5 tons of explosive ordnance destroyed by DanChurchAid in Kalemie, Tanganyika district, DR Congo.
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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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More than 350 people were gathered last Saturday, 22 April 2006, at Odense Congress Centre. The participants at the National Assembly were a mix of volunteers from DanChurchAid’s second hand shops, youth volunteers, partner representatives, DCA employees, board and council.
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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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Six months has passed since heavy rains from Hurricane Stan lashed the whole Central America region, affecting Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico and Nicaragua, and causing extensive flooding and mudslides.
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East Africa is in the grip of its worst drought for more than 20 years. The UN estimates that more than 8 million people across eastern Africa are in desperate need of food and water.
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Case study in India after tsunami 2005 by DanChurchAid partner Lutheran World Service/India
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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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Securing Children’s Rights in Cambodia is a project managed by DanChurchAid Cambodia. The project aims to decrease the level of excessive pre-trial detentions and to work towards ensuring that offenders obtain appropriate punishment for their crimes.
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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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Christian Aid, a member of ACT International, is working in Ethiopia helping to provide water and work for the Borana so that they can find ways to cope with this crisis.
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Outside the town of El Wak, on the Kenya-Somalia border, more than 200 families are living in makeshift camps, waiting for assistance. Four months ago the camp did not even exist.
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DanChurchAid Humanitarian Mine Action program in DR Congo has signed a two-year contract with Delegation of the European Commission in Kinshasa, starting 1 April 2006, for an amount of 940 000 Euros to finance Mine Action activities in Eastern Congo. In addition to this amount DCA will contribute 114.239 Euro of it own funds to the same project.
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In 2005, DanChurchAid’s 3.700 charity shop volunteers made a profit of DKK 15 million (approx. USD 2.5 million). The money raised goes directly to DCA’s international work of helping and being advocates of the poorest of the poor.
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When the temperature is below minus 30 and you are left outdoor for the night, you may very well give up hope. Russia is facing an enormous challenge of providing housing and proper living conditions for about 5 million homeless people.
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The food shortage caused by a drought in parts of Kenya is quickly reaching a crisis stage, with the World Food Program warning of “absolutely catastrophic” consequences if aid is not delivered to some areas in a matter of days.
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DanChurchAid’s Parish Collection 2006 reached the expected result on DKK 14 million (approx. USD 2.3 million).
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”Denmark against Landmines” marked the international mine clearance day: A famous Danish artist has performed lithography especially for the event, and Her Highness Princess Alexandra unveiled this in the Alexander Hall at Christiansborg.
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DanChurchAid’s annual Parish Collection on 5 March, 2006
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The 2005 national election in Ethiopia witnessed 116 women voted into parliament, thus implicating that women now hold more than 20% of the seats. That is three times as many compared to previous elections and a higher female proportion than in many European parliaments.
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Christians in a world of plural convictions are in a place which is "both promising and deeply risky", according to the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams.
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DanChurchAid’s work in the Middle East and in the Horn of Africa region is strongly influenced by the crisis between Denmark and the Muslim world. It is not only a governmental responsibility to restore the peaceful and trustful dialogue. According to DanChurchAid, the humanitarian organisations with partners in civil society in the Middle East have to work together with the Government concerning this issue.
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DanChurchAid partner in the Middle East protests against major Danish newspaper's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Act International and Caritas Darfur: Armed militias have driven more than 55,000 people from their homes in South Darfur.
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The UN is very pleased with the possibilities in the DCA developed mine clearing vehicle even though it is not a panacea for all mine problems.
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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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DanChurchAid introduces new mine clearance method which is cheaper and more effective than previous methods.
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Flash floods in southern Malawi have displaced more than 40,000 people and killed one person when his car was washed away by the rising waters. DanChurchAid's partners in Malawi have already started the relief work.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Through partners, DanChurchAid supports vulnerable children who have been assaulted, exposed to exploitation or caught in the legal system.
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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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AIDS is connected with silence and isolation throughout the world. Even in churches, the word on AIDS is often quieted down. It does not have to be like that! On December 1, DanChurchAid and partners in south and north focuses on the epidemic and its consequences.
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815 million people are starving according to UN’s annual report on hunger and malnutrition. “It is a disgrace and a scar on world's conscience”, General Secretary of DanChurchAid Henrik Stubkjær says. “We know it is possible to end hunger. We can afford it. And we know how to do it.”
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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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Call for proposals. DanChurchAid is tenderings its evaluation of the Humanitarian Mine Action Portfolio.
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