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DanChurchAid (DCA) is a Danish non-governmental organisation that aims to assist the poorest groups of the populations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Today, DCA has Humanitarian Mine Action activities in Albania, Angola, Burundi, DR Congo, Lebanon and Sudan.
DCA has implemented a humanitarian mine action programme in the Angola since 2004. Now we are looking for a new Technical Advisor (TA) to the HMA programme in Luena, Moxico Province.
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DCA has implemented a humanitarian mine action programme in the Angola since 2004. Now we are looking for a new Technical Advisor (TA) to the HMA programme in Luena, Moxico Province.
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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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DCA has implemented Humanitarian Mine Action programme in the Sudan since 2003. Now we are looking for a new Technical Advisor to the HMA programme in Kadugli, Nuba mountains.
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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 folk 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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Dushtha Shasthya Kendra and DanChurchAid's disaster response to the cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh in November 2007.
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‘The flies are unbearable.’ When asked how things are in the Cylone-affected Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar, the first thing that they describe is the flies. Thick clouds of biting flies fill the air around the villages, having bred in the bloated carcasses of the buffalo killed by the storm. ‘There are so many, that some of the remaining buffaloes have even been killed from the bites.’
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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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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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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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35 years old Renu lives in Bokultolla village in Bangladesh. Her husband has some land and does farming most of the year, but at the time of the cyclone Sidr, he was away working in Chittagong, so she was alone with her daughter when the cyclone struck.
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Fedousi Begum comes from Bokultolla village in Bangladesh. She is 35 years old, married and has three children. Her husband is a fisherman most of the year, but supplements his income by working as a farm labourer 2-3 months in the fishing off season. He used to collect honey and firewood in the Sundarban mangrove forest. Fedousi survived the cyclone Sidr.
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Roksana Begum is not just poor, she is also homeless in the country of her birth. One of thousands of Biharis, she lives in a camp of 280 households just outside Saidpur with her husband Mohammad Ibrahim and five children. For over thirty years, this community has lived outside mainstream society, ostracised because they took they losing side in the 1971 War of Independence.
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In Mandir Mouza village, Rajarhat, Bharati Rani and Binod Chandra are bringing up their two sons in a thatched house built on the embankment of the Teesta River. It is a hard life, for the river has washed away the family home many times and swallowed up the 10 decimals of land they had bought using micro-credit from RDRS. They hope to move on soon, however, to a better life as entrepreneurs.
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Purnima Rani is a firm believer in hard work as the way to success in life. Ten years ago, she was just an ordinary housewife but then she joined RDRS, and her life was turned around. Offered training in income-generating skills, Purnima opted for tailoring, went on a course and acquired a free sewing machine.
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Salma Begum is an industrious, ambitious and respected resident in her village, a member of local Federation committees. She is even planning on standing for the Union Parishad, an elected member representing the poor of her village. But this was not always the case.
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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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