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.

DanChurchAid believes

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."

Oil and corruption

Angola is still struggling with the remnants of 27 years of civil war. Large parts of the country are covered in landmines, and millions of people have been driven away from their homes and now live as refugees in their own country.

Challenges

Angola has a great agricultural potential and large oil and mineral deposits. But the country is marked by much destruction in the wake of the civil war, and around 4 million people are estimated to live or to have lived in the country as exiled refugees. A large part of them grew up in camps in or outside Angola.

The country is facing substantial constructive work, among other things, clearing the regions that are covered in landmines. The mines mutilate the population and pose a significant threat.

The revenue from the country’s oil production is the source of progress and improvements in some parts of the country. But the administration of Angola’s finances is anything but transparent. And so far the poorest parts of the population that live in the most isolated areas in the country’s eastern provinces have not felt the growing affluence.

What we do in Angola

DanChurchAid’s work in Angola centres on the eastern province, Moxico, that borders on Zambia.

Our work includes:

Clearing inhabited areas of landmines and unexploded ammunition
Teaching children and adults the danger of landmines

Angola is one of the most mined African countries south of the Sahara and one of the most mined countries in the whole world, and more than 12 million mines are still believed to lie in wait in the ground today.

Every year landmines mutilate and kill many innocent people. In Angola, people with amputated body parts, limping down the street with the aid of crutches or prostheses, are not a rare sight.