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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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At least 800 people have been killed in monsoon-related accidents during the heavy June-to-September rains across India, with impoverished Bihar accounting for 24 deaths since August 23, according to a government spokesperson.
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Heavy torrential rains since August 16, 2008 in the Gambella regional state in Ethiopia have caused severe flooding, affecting thousands of people and destroying farmland and homes.
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On August 4, 2008 the Executive Director of the Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ), Dr. Simon Mphuka, passed away at the age of 46 in what was felt as an untimely death of a visionary, charismatic and engaged leader. Simon Mphuka was an excellent listener and always smiling in spite of the often serious nature of the work he and DanChurchAid would discuss together.
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Even though the regime in Khartoum and the revolutionary movement SPLM in south have been persuaded to lay down their arms, the challenges of gaining permanent peace in Sudan are huge.
This is said by Mads Frilander, programme officer in DanChurchAid in South Sudan.
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This is said by Mads Frilander, programme officer in DanChurchAid in South Sudan.
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One of the world’s church leaders got to his knees and washed the feet of two HIV-positive women as a sign of remorse and penitence for the church's past discrimination of HIV patients.
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DanChurchAid prepares a Material Aid support of 750.000 DKK for foodstuffs, sanitary and household packages for the 30.000 refugees, that fled to Russian North Ossetia from Georgian South Ossetia in early august
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Mahder Tsegaw is one of the ‘‘GIVE A GOAT ’’ beneficiaries in Amhara regional state in Dehana, namely in Berbera village. Receiving the donation of goats has changed her life.
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In Central Asian countries the fight for women to strengthen their rights and move closer to full partnership with men is well documented by international organizations. One example of such partnership in Kyrgzstan is Avazbek Balthabaev and his wife Paiza Bathaeva, who work as a team in both business and in self-help groups in their community.
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DanChurchAid currently has five partner organisations working with food security in Honduras. At different levels, they are all dedicated to rural development and sustainable agriculture, and in the recent past have begun working more with advocacy.
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Life in Darfur can be harsh at the best of times, but during the rainy season it can be particularly challenging. Many families who have lost their homes because of the conflict are now living in makeshift mud huts and straw shelters. Life in Darfur can be harsh at the best of times, but during the rainy season it can be particularly challenging.
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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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In the days, months and years directly after the war in the eastern part of Katanga province in Congo has ended, life has been far from easy. The 650 men, women and children of Kalombo village are just barely getting back to normalcy, since 2003 when the last armed attack occurred.
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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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In rural Bangladesh, the problems faced by the poor are changing. Where once a small plot of land was enough to pull a family out of poverty, nowadays there are different opportunities as technologies adapt and markets widen, a principle grasped by Zohra Begum and her family.
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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 and local partners work together to find sustainable solutions to problems experienced by the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
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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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Dushtha Shasthya Kendra and DanChurchAid's disaster response to the cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh in November 2007.
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29 year old fishermen Nobi Hussein from the village Rayenda Bazar located in the Sarankhola area in Bangladesh tells his story about that fateful night when the cyclone Sidr struck.
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The joint ethio-dansih NGO programme in North Wollo started in 1997 and is a collaboration between the three Danish NGO's Save the Children, Danish Red Cross and DanChurchAid and their Ethiopian partners. The purpose was to relieve the food crisis and support agricultural development in North Wollo, a very poor area in Ethiopia.
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The joint ethio-dansih NGO programme in North Wollo started in 1997, and the evaluation states, that it has ben an overall succes. The main goals on health, agruculture and education have been fulfilled, and the quality of life has been improved in the region. Read DCA comments on the evaluation below.
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