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DanChurchAid (DCA) seeks a Regional Representative (RR) with a strong focus on relief and rehabilitation work to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The RR will refer to the DCA Country Coordinator (CC) in DCA headquarters (HQ) in Copenhagen.
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While official figures of newly displaced people in crowded camps around Goma are still being determined, another reality of displacement remains in the shadows: the thousands of families who have opened their modest homes to fleeing strangers.
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The first ever National Forum of “Act Development Central Asia” Alliance was successfully held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 6-7. The Forum brought together five international development agencies – ICCO (the Netherlands), DanChurchAid (DCA, Denmark), Christian Aid (United Kingdom), Norwegian Church Aid and Hungarian Interchurch Aid – and more than fifteen non-governmental organisations and microfinance institutions from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. More than 40 representatives of the organisations participated in this historic event.
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DanChurchAid (DCA) has been implementing a Humanitarian Mine Action programme in Albania since 2002 and is planning to complete the clearance activities by the end of 2009 whereby Albania will be able to meet its clearance deadline under the Mine Ban Convention and the mine threat is removed from the lives of the Albanian population. These remaining mined areas are all located along the north eastern Albanian border – an area that was mined during the Kosovo conflict in 1999.
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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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Since 2006, DanChurchAid (DCA) in India have had a total of 6.500 goats to distribute amongst vulnerable people. All those goats was a result of Danes choosing to 'Give a Goat' for Christmas and support the work of DCA.
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Vast areas in several departments in Honduras are hit by massive rain and floods. 23 people have been killed amd over 22.000 have been evacuated.
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By the shore of Lake Malawi women offer their bodies as payment for freshly caught fish, since they have no money. The nightly activities spread HIV and produces fatherless children. SWAM project helps the women take better care of them selves.
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The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa.
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The hondurian judicial system is corrupted to the bone, and there is good reason to keep an eye on the courts and officials of the central American country.
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The global credit crisis will have dramatic consequences for the poorest, because those who fund
them are hit by the breakdown," says John Nduna, director of ACT International. Read more...
them are hit by the breakdown," says John Nduna, director of ACT International. Read more...
Henrik Stubkjær, genereal secretary of DanChurchAid, has visited Ethiopia. More and more ethiopians suffer from undernutrition due to drought and the global food crisis.
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ACT International has launched a US $1.7 million appeal to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people displaced by the catastrophic flooding in the Indian province of Bihar. DanChurchAid is a member of ACT International.
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Getting a goat has been a life changing experience for Padma Ram, his wife Dani Devi and their five children. The family is healthier, their income is secure and the children are now in school, thanks to their five goats, a cow and a little help from local aid organisation SURE.
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The Malawian farmers slog away in the dry fields. But that isn’t always enough to provide their families with food. The ELDS program helps the farmers to save money and groundnuts, to secure that they don’t starve.
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As reported by DanChurchAid's partner, Lutheran World Federation (LWF), floods and landslides triggered by incessant rain since Friday (19 September 2008) have left more than 33 people dead in mid- and far-western regions of Nepal. Kailali, Kanchanpur and Doti districts (far-west Nepal) have been severely affected. DanChurchAid's partner, LWF Nepal, mobilised its rapid assessment team in the affected area. According to the national news media reports, thousands of people have been directly affected and displaced.
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DanChurchAid’s (DCA) Humanitarian Mine Action programme is closing its mine clearance activities in Burundi after almost four years. DCA has finalised all tasks that has been entrusted to the programme by the Burundian government, except from one area, which continues to be inaccessible due to security reasons. The area in question is a strong hold of one of the rebel groups still active in Burundi.
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DanChurchAid and the Danish NGO-forum invites young people from all over Africa to apply for participation in the African Youth Panel, taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 16-19. 2008. The Youth Panel will be a lifetime opportunity to influence the future of Africa by developing recommendations to the further work of the Danish Africa Commission.
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Small seeds for an active civil society are starting to grow in the poor Central Asian Republic Kyrgyzstan where children have to work to get an income to the family
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The past is scary, but the upcoming elections in Angola on September 5th has every possibility to turn a new page in the country’s history
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Refugees are now seriously returning to South Sudan. Expectations are high but there is very little to come home to
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