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Where we work

Guatemala

Our work here focuses on agricultural development, disaster prevention and relief aid, human rights and strengthening the legal system.

Sudan

Among other things, our work here includes mine clearance, protecting the civilian population and relief aid in Darfur.

India

Here we work with fighting hunger and poverty, disaster preparedness, democracy, rights and the caste system.

Angola

Our work here focuses on clearing areas of landmines and unexploded ammunition as well as mine risk education.

Congo (DCR)

Our work here focuses on demining, fighting hunger and helping women who are victims of violence.

Ethiopia

Our work here focuses on disaster risk reduction, equal rights for men and women, strengthening civil society and fighting hunger, HIV and AIDS.

Malawi

Our work here focuses on the prevention of HIV and AIDS, food security and women’s rights.

Uganda

Our work here focuses on agriculture, disaster preparedness, combating HIV and AIDS and supporting a democratic development.

Zambia

Our work here focuses on women’s right to participate, fighting poverty, HIV and AIDS, climate change adaption and democracy.

Bangladesh

Our work here focuses on disaster preparedness, climate changes, democracy, women’s rights and protecting migrants.

Burma/Myanmar

Our work here focuses on empowering civil society, development and education, emergency relief aid and supporting refugees.

Cambodia

Our work here includes, among other things, fighting hunger, HIV/AIDS, supporting women’s rights and climate change adaption.

Nepal

Our work here focuses on democracy and rights, disaster preparedness, disaster risk reduction and safe migration.

Pakistan

Our work here focuses on relief aid, health care, medicine and reconstruction following the floods.

Haiti

Here our work focuses on rebuilding schools and helping the rural poor with income generating activities after the violent earthquake in 2010.

Honduras

Our work here focuses on agricultural development, disaster preparedness, climate change adaption, human rights and democracy.

West Bank/Gaza

Our work here focuses on relief aid, women’s rights and improving the Palestinian population’s living conditions.

Kazakhstan

Our work here focuses on supporting the poor that travel from town to town on foot. We establish self-help groups and influence laws and procedures.

Kyrgyzstan

Our work here focuses on supporting poor immigrant families, education for marginalised children and young people and self-help groups for the elderly.

Lebanon

Our work here focuses on clearing cluster bombs, neutralising mines and enabling the population to manage on their own.

Donors


	We put funding into action International Donors International Networks Together we change the world © Heine Pedersen

What we do


	Our Approach Mine Action Hiv and Aids Humanitarian Assistance The Right to Food Political Space What we do © ACT/Paul Jeffrey

About us


	Organisation and Strategy DCA in the ACT Alliance Accounts Quality Assurance Contact us DanChurchAid believes © Mike Kollöffel Henrik Stubkjær, Secretary General "Hunger is an inevitable consequence of poverty. Hunger is the most grotesque example of inequity in the world. DCA is fighting hunger with all of the means we have, both in the short and longer term."

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News

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News

05.03.2012 DCA Staff killed in explosion in Libya

A DCA technical expert has been killed in an explosion in Libya, while clearing an area of buildings of unexploded remains of recent fighting.

24.02.2012 Libya: DCA welcomes new Danish presence, calls for further support

DanChurchAid welcomes Danish Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal's visit in Libya this week and Denmark's plans to establish a presence in Tripoli. But Denmark still needs to step up funding for mine action.

21/05/2012 Will the private sector pay the climate bill?

In a time where Western governments struggle to keep their national budgets above the red lines, increased allocations for climate finance are not popular.

07/05/2012 New report: Agriculture is both a problem and a solution in the fight against climate change

Food on the table is a top priority for everyone. However, the right to food is challenged by climate change and already today millions of people are starving due to droughts and flooding in developing countries around the world.

20/04/2012 Bringing quality health services to rural Pakistan

Sajni is one of the many expecting mothers in the flood-affected Sindh province. Access to health service is limited, but thanks to the mobile health units funded by the European Union, Sajni could receive prenatal care when she experienced problems during her pregnancy.

20/04/2012 A deepening food crisis

West African region of the Sahel is on the brink of famine.

16/04/2012 UK choir and school raise money for DCA mine action in Libya

A choir in Kent, United Kingdom has chosen DanChurchAid (DCA)'s mine action unit as its 2012 "charity of the year." Another UK primary school raised money for DCA's work in Libya singing Christmas carols last year.

14/02/2012 Australia boosts DCA's armed violence reduction programme in Libya

Australian NGO Act for Peace offers grant to DCA's small arms and light weapons reduction programme in Libya.

07/03/2012 Norway supports DCA Burma/Myanmar programme

DanChurchAid's mine risk education programme in Burma/Myanmar has received NOK2 million from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

20/03/2012 Canadian support for HMA Libya work

United Churches of Canada has donated some EURO1,000 to DCA's work of clearing explosive remnants of war in Libya.

27/03/2012 Sahel: they survived by eating grasshoppers

The hunger crisis in the Western part of the Sahel Region is growing. Just recently, the military has taken power in Mali in a coup which threatens to make the situation even more desperate. DanChurchAid’s Humanitarian Director, Lisa Henry, used to live in the region, and here she gives her thoughts about the recurring food crisis.

14/03/2012 Access to water improves farming in Cambodia

Life conditions have improved significantly for My Chhim and her family after the construction of water supply systems in their village. The improved access to water has made it possible for My Chhim to provide her family with enough water and food.

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