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65-year-old Sabho Bhai is just one of the women who have received help from DanChurchAid’s partners in disaster-struck Pakistan. Read here how aid is getting through to the people who need it the most.
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DanChurchAid supports the Pakistan flood response with an additional three million DKK.
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DanChurchAid gives 750.000 Danish kroner to flood-affected Pakistan.
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Attacks by elephants are a real threat to the villagers in Chandangiri in Orissa, India. DanChurch Aid’s partner in the area helps the tribal people access government schemes to compensate for death by animal attacks
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DCA, as part of ACT Alliance, responded immediately to the humanitarian crisis in Kyrgyzstan, having the advantage of its presence through long-term development programmes. While responding to the humanitarian needs, ACT Alliance conducted one more round of rapid assessment during July 13-14. Observations from the visits to affected families and IDP (internally displaced persons) camps are summarized here
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Cyprus Ambassador and ITF representative visit DCA Lebanon Programme.
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Women's legal status is weak in patriarchal Palestinian society. The right to inherit is an especially weak point not least when it comes to the inheritance of land. The EU has granted 5,6 mio. kroner to DanChurchAid's work to secure women their legal right of inheritance.
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The Talanada Juang hamlet in the Keonjhar district of Orissa has no roads and no drinking water source. The tribal hamlet previously undiscovered has only recently been included in the Orissa Government’s record. Now the Juangs learn about their possibilities of subsidies from the Government and mobilize funds for a bridge, a new road, housing and safe drinking water.
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Conservation farming, the growing of crops with minimum disturbance to the soil, is quickly becoming the preferred farming method for several small scale farmers in the rural areas of the Chipata district in Zambia’s Eastern Province.
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Real reconstruction has yet to begin, while the people suffer in ramshackle housing in overcrowded camps. Instead of facilitating imports of equipment, leaders have lapsed into a pattern of corruption and delay.
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Two village grain banks have secured the future for the villagers in a tribal hamlet in northern Bihar
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Five months after the earthquake in Haiti the ACT Alliance is evaluating the work so far in order to be able to streamline and coordinate the continued effort even better. Secretary General, Henrik Stubkjær, writes from Haiti.
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The tropical storm Agatha marks the beginning of the hurricane season in Central America. Thousands have fled their homes and more than 100.000 people have been evacuated
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55-year-old Mangli Devi is happy to have a new home. The old one was lost in the devastating Kosi floods of 2008. In the times to follow Mangli was able to rebuild her home and life with the support given by DCA. This is her story.
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Rahima is a 16 year old girl with a goal. She has fought a tenacious struggle against an early marriage. Read Rahima’s testimonial on her future and her village.
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Maleka is a 19-year-old member of the recently formed Village Disaster Management Committee (VDMC) in Dhubli village in northern Bangladesh. Although her house and her land have been destroyed multiple times by the river she wants to stay in this village and script her own destiny. This is her story:
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For nineteen years now Bal Bahadur Bomjan Tamang and his family have survived on the relief material that is sent to their refugee camp in Eastern Nepal every week. But now Bal Bahadur risk being all alone, as his children are leaving the camp
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In the “Centre for Dalit Rights”, DanChurchAid’s partner works to empower the community to fight for their rights. An increase in violent attacks just triggers their collective strength
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A wave of empowerment has hit the Gamiti tribes of Udaipur, Rajasthan. Ushering in this wave is their leader Napi Bai, a member of the Tribal Development Forum. Astha, DanChurch Aid’s partner in the region has played a key role in advocating for the Indian Forest Rights Act of 2006.
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New project aims at improved accountability and quality of the humanitarian response in Haiti.
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Big in Denmark, small in the world. DanChurchAid will now obtain greater strength internationally for the benefit of the work for the poorest in the world.
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More then 280 representatives from about 100 NGOs from all over Kyrgyzstan took part in the exceptional NGO Forum held in Bishkek on April 17th.
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When Nato and its allies went to war in Afghanistan, the alliance promised to curtail the export of drugs to Europe. So far their efforts have not been very successful. In a new film Danish Journalist and Filmmaker, Michael Andersen, shows how drug smuggling routes though the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia bring new dangers to the area.
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After a restless night of chaotic looting and shooting in different parts of Bishkek, volunteers have begun to clean up the streets and Police have returned to the city.
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President Bakiyev has left the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek after yesterday’s bloody collision between demonstrants and Security Forces that left at least 47 people dead. A large armed crowd is raiding the city.
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