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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.

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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.

 

 

 


After a terrible period of hunger in Malawi, it looks like it will be a good harvest after all. DanChurchAid has concentrated on long-term aid such as in the village of Kawala in the central Malawi where a group of women have worked together to secure food for their families.
The aim of DanChurchAid's HIV/AIDS programme work in Malawi is to claim and uphold the rights of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, and to reduce new incidences of HIV-infections.
The widening of civic and political space in Malawi is a matter of raising awareness of the notion of rights at all levels. DanChurchAid's programme work in Malawi is addressing issues that deter the most vulnerable from being involved in the decision-making processes that affect them.
DanChurchAid's food security work in Malawi focuses on the right to adequate and nutritious food and adresses the structural barriers to food security in Malawi.
In Malawi these days, the story is about water - too little or too much of it - and the struggle with the effects of these two extremes.
Flash floods in southern Malawi have displaced more than 40,000 people and killed one person when his car was washed away by the rising waters. DanChurchAid's partners in Malawi have already started the relief work.
DanChurchAid has received a grant of 118,000 EUR from the European Commission’s Non State Actors Capacity Building Programme in Malawi
Economic empowerment of a Malawian woman can empower her to hold greater decision-making power in the household, secure food for her family all year around, improve the nutrition intake in her family, pay her 6 children’s school fees, equip her to expand her small-scale maize business – and even allow her to put aside small savings for health-related emergencies or a year of bad harvest.
The general elections in Malawi has brought women from both urban and rural areas into decicion making, writes Lugede Chiphwafu Chiumya, Programme Officer at the DanChurchAid Malawi office.
The majority of Malawi’s children are either malnourished or undernourished, some of them so badly, that they don’t live through their early years. The parents of the children most often are too poor to prevent it.