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Three DanChurchAid supported mobile health clinics have been destroyed in an Israeli air strike.
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Friday night december the 5th, five volunteers from DanChurchAid arrived in Poznan, Poland in total shambles – and I was one of them.
Read volunteer Julie's account from the UN Climate Change Summit in Poznan, Poland. Read more...
Read volunteer Julie's account from the UN Climate Change Summit in Poznan, Poland. Read more...
Bombs continue to fall while the population in Gaza sits by their open windows in the cold, holding their kids and telling lies to the youngest: “It is just new year fire crackers!”
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Very little aid reaches the population in Gaza.
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ACT International warns of a dramatic escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, if Israel, Hamas and other militant groups do not cease the current hostilities and avert a new military conflict.
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When war once again chased Bageni Katembereza from her home village in September, she shepherded her six children down the dirt roads of eastern Congo toward safety, not knowing where she was headed, only sensing she had to get away.
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The majority of Malawi’s children are either malnourished or undernourished, some of them so badly, that they don’t live through their early years. The parents of the children most often are too poor to prevent it.
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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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Security situation:The situation in North Kivu is relatively calm at the moment.
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
Thousands of children are living on the streets of Malawi. There they are trying to find the food, their parents cannot give them due to drought, floods and poor harvest.
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An eyewitness report from one of the DCA volunteers presently in Poznan
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On August 23, 2008 a wave of attacks on Christians was launched in the Kandhamal district of the Indian state of Orissa led by the Hindu nationalist organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council) and its youth organisation Bajrang Dal.
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The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is the first and only international periodical
review that monitors state actors’ actions related to the realization of the right to food. Read more...
review that monitors state actors’ actions related to the realization of the right to food. Read more...
On Wednesday the 3rd of December,2008 in Oslo, about half of the world’s countries, including Denmark, will sign the international Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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After the death of the 3rd Republican President of Zambia, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, on 19th August 2008, by-elections were announced and were eventually held on the 30th of October within the 90 days stipulated by the Constitution. The overall impression is that the elections were carried out in a free, fair and peaceful manner.
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During her visit to Russia, Danish Princess Marie had a break from the high profile dinners and polished floors to visit a centre for homeless. The centre is one of DanChurchAid’s partners.
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60 young representatives from 22 different African countries gave their proposals and recommendations to the African Commission this week.
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A key challenge for Africa, as stressed by several commissioners and by the World Bank, is strengthening small-holder agriculture and rural communities where more than 2/3 of the Africans live and work. This challenge is critical also to enhance employment possibilities for women and youth and to tackle the food crisis and the climate crisis. Agriculture, civil society and decent work are some of the keywords for the future.
Read the full intervention by Christian Friis Bach, International Director, DanChurchAid at the second meeting of the Africa Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa. Read more...
Read the full intervention by Christian Friis Bach, International Director, DanChurchAid at the second meeting of the Africa Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa. Read more...
While official figures of newly displaced people in crowded camps around Goma are still being determined, another reality of displacement remains in the shadows: the thousands of families who have opened their modest homes to fleeing strangers.
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The first ever National Forum of “Act Development Central Asia” Alliance was successfully held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 6-7. The Forum brought together five international development agencies – ICCO (the Netherlands), DanChurchAid (DCA, Denmark), Christian Aid (United Kingdom), Norwegian Church Aid and Hungarian Interchurch Aid – and more than fifteen non-governmental organisations and microfinance institutions from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. More than 40 representatives of the organisations participated in this historic event.
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The security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remains precarious and aid groups do not yet know what effect the most recent violence will have on the latest cease fire or humanitarian situation. First hand report from ACT aid worker in DR Congo.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu nominates DanChurchAid for the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The nomination is backed by the 10 bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and former Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Uffe Elleman-Jensen
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Despite the lack of humanitarian access, several ACT members have been able to deliver some initial assistance to communities displaced by the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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After panic and lootings by retreating troops a deadly calm has fallen over Goma in Eastern Congo.
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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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