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What we doOur work here includes, among other things, fighting hunger, HIV/AIDS, supporting women’s rights and climate change adaption. |
Scars after the civil war
Tourists have discovered beautiful and friendly Cambodia. But even though the country, at first glance, is characterised by progress and optimism, it still belongs to one of the poorest in Asia. Decades of civil war have left their mark.
Challenges
Nearly a third of the Cambodians belong in the category: extremely poor. For many families every day is a struggle to get food. The fact that climate changes make the rain fall irregularly and that the country’s power elite is lining its pockets with land that poor farmers used to cultivate and live by, does not help.
For centuries, Cambodia was a peaceful country where people respected each other. War and genocide has brutalized the society, causing corruption and oppression. For example, every year thousands of women are violently abused in or outside their homes, and young people are sold to slave labour and prostitution.
Luckily, a substantial effort has put a stop to a rapidly rising AIDS curve. But even though fewer people are infected with HIV, the disease is a constant threat. Many are still infected – especially in the poor part of the population that lacks the knowledge and means to fight is.
What we do in Cambodia
DanChurchAid has been active in Cambodia since the early 1980s. Initially with reconstruction as well as resettling fugitives from the civil war.
Since the 1990s it has been a matter of building a strong civil society, focusing on:
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Food security and hunger
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Women’s rights
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Preventing HIV/AIDS and providing care
At the same time, we support the efforts against widespread corruption and poor governance. We try to prevent draughts and floods which, among other things, are caused by climate changes. And we support poor farmers’ struggle for land rights in order for them to keep their land and support their families.
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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.
19/10/2009
Typhoon causes havoc
Typhoon Ketsana caused major havoc in eight provinces of Cambodia on September 29 - 30, 2009. ”This is quite unusual. I have never seen anything like this in Cambodia," says DanChurchAid employee Sila Phung, on his return from the affected provinces in northern Cambodia.
Domestic violence occurs frequently in Cambodia. And a combination of customs and culture continue to prolong violence against women. This is the conclusion in a new report from DanChurchAid on domestic violence in Cambodia.
30/04/2009
The future is in the vegetable garden
Young women in Cambodia are being given agricultural training in an attempt to help alleviate poverty and unemployment. These underprivileged women are not only learning about the seasonal cycles of various crops but also how to farm livestock. The intension is, that they can help to secure a better future for their families.
04/03/2009
Families fight to get their land back
DanChurchAid supports 496 families who had their land grabbed by the Cambodian army.
27/06/2008
Children also have rights
DanChurchAid and the local partners LICADHO and Legal Aid Cambodia have worked together since 2004 to improve the rights of children in Cambodia.
20/06/2008
Multimedia - Prepared for the next disaster
Farmers in Cambodias Kompong Speu province are working to make their villages more resilient to the recurring natural disasters, such as drought or floods, hitting the area as a result of changes in the climate. Meet them in our audioslideshows and videos.
11/06/2008
New collaboration in Cambodia
DanChurhAid and Christian Aid have joined offices in Phnom Penh.
11/06/2008
HIV/AIDS partners in Cambodia
DanChurchAid and Christian Aid works with a range of local and international organisations with HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and care. View list of partners here.
About 1% of the Cambodian population is infected with HIV or AIDS. Cambodia's women are the new high risk group of infection. They get infected by their husbands and are, apart from the health risks, also in high risk of ending up in extreme poverty. HIV is still a stigmatizing disease in Cambodia although; however, it has changed a lot after several HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns throughout the country.
14/01/2008
Land-grabbing in Cambodia
”Couple killed in violent land clearing”, ”Land-rights activist children helt hostage”, ”Villagers attacks machinery in land confrontation”. Everyday similar headlines fill the Cambodian newspapers. Land is one of the most salient issues in Cambodia.
02/11/2007
Sokhun: A 13-year-old artist in prison
The Cambodian Interior Ministry recently removed four pictures from an exhibition of drawings made by juveniles in Cambodian prisons. The pictures – from the exhibition “Our Drawings” arranged by DanChurchAid – were removed and forgotten. Not unlike one of the artists, 13-year-old Sokhun who has been in prison for almost a year in Cambodia.
26/10/2007
HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and support
1,6% of the population of Cambodia is living with HIV/AIDS. DanChurchAid works with HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, care and support in the rural communities.
Four pictures were removed from the art exhibition "Our drawings" at the National Cultural Center. The drawings are made by children between the ages of 13 and 17 who were inmates in prisons in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Siem Reap provinces. The exhibition was supported by DanChurchAid.
20/06/2007
A review of 2006 in Cambodia
In October 2005, radio director Mam Sonando packs his toothbrush and his tie. The items are in his drawer in his office at the radio station already. Then he turns towards the two policemen who wait for him in the door. They have come to arrest him and the next four months, Mam Sonando spends in jail, charged with defamation of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen. During the next three months an additional seven jou...
19/06/2007
Tribunal moves forward
The Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia recently moved significantly forward after a seven months long standstill.
18/03/2007
Land grabbing
The site smells like burned tires, garbage and dirt. There are no toilets, no clean water, no roads and no houses. Nothing but hundreds of simple shelters made from wooden poles and plastic. Andong, described as the trashcan of Phnom Penh by a NGO worker, is the place where former slum dwellers reside, placed here by the government, with promises of new land, food and money. Over 1000 families are forced to call t...
12/02/2007
Heng just did as the police told him to
Cambodian Heng was arrested by the police, when he was 12 years old. They knocked on his family's door one day and took him to the police station.
01/02/2007
Children in prison: No place to grow up
Nearly 500 children are currently detained in Cambodia’s prisons. For these children, the prisons they call “home” are overcrowded, unhygienic and lacking in basic facilities. Many are detained with adults, they are regularly held in pre-trial detention that exceeds the legal time limit, and many are sentenced to prison time without any regard to their age. A coalition of local and international groups has called...
02/01/2007
Landless female farmer
After 20 years on the run, Kong Pov dreams about settling as a farmer. Through the 1980s and 1990s, young Kong Pov accompanied her husband who was a Khmer Rouge soldier. The battles decided their destinations.
29/12/2006
Farmer Field School
Poor farmers who cooperate and share their knowledge harvest more. That is the philosophy of the Farmer Field School.
04/12/2006
DKK 1.5 million to fight modern slavery
Thanks to a big effort from about 700 volunteer refund collectors at this year's Roskilde Festival, DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival announce the record-breaking result of DKK 1.5 million (approx. € 202,000). The profits are donated to two of DanChurchAid's Cambodian partner organisation, Ponleur Kumar and Friends, who both work on preventing and fighting modern slavery.
28/11/2006
Above the clouds
Rights-based approaches in Cambodia: International Director of DanChurchAid, Christian Friis Bach, has just visited LWF Cambodia programme in Sleng Village, where rights-based approaches begins to work successfully.
21/11/2006
Perhaps it’s too late
28 years ago Khmer Rouge lost power in Cambodia. Only now the country seems ready to face the confrontation with the leaders responsible for the death of more than two million Cambodians.
06/11/2006
Ready to confront Khmer Rouge
DanChurchAid’s partners in Cambodia behind pressure for a legal confrontation with the leadership of Khmer Rouge. Local partner DC-Cam (Documentation Center of Cambodia) has for years been active in the Khmer Rouge Trial and has collected 1.6 million stories from survivors to be presented at the trial.
20/10/2006
Women trafficking
Human trafficking can be described as a modern-day form of slavery. Trafficking involves the transport or trade of people within and across borders for the purpose of forcing them into slavery conditions. Trafficking is a serious violation of human rights. In Cambodia, DanChurchAid works for the recognition of trafficked persons, especially women and girls, to be seen as victims with rights - in need of protection...
05/07/2006
Fighting modern slavery in Cambodia
Since 2002 DanChurchAid has cooperated with Roskilde Music Festival about the humanitarian focus and the humanitarian deposit collection at the festival. The money raised from the humanitarian bottle refund collection 2006 will be donated to DanChurchAid partners in Cambodia.
20/05/2006
The ugly face of human exploitation
Efforts against human trafficking pays off – but trafficking remains. DanChurchAid in Cambodia focuses on assisting young women subject to trafficking to find alternative livelihoods.
24/04/2006
Children for sale in Cambodia
The Safe Migration Project, led by Mith Samlanh/Friends, in Cambodia works to prevent internal and external unsafe migration and trafficking. The main compound for Mith Samlanh/Friends is now being sold!
11/04/2006
Focus on modern slavery
DanChurchAid cooperates with Scandinavia's largest music festival "Roskilde Festival" about the humanitarian focus "Modern slavery". The profits of the humanitarian bottle deposit collection Roskilde ’06 will be donated to DanChurchAid’s work on helping the victims and prevent modern slavery in Cambodia.
30/03/2006
Securing children’s rights in Cambodia
Securing Children’s Rights in Cambodia is a project managed by DanChurchAid Cambodia. The project aims to decrease the level of excessive pre-trial detentions and to work towards ensuring that offenders obtain appropriate punishment for their crimes.
24/03/2006
DKK 414,000 to fight modern slavery
The money from the humanitarian bottle refund collection at Roskilde Festival 2005, which raised more than 400.000 DDK (approx. USD 66,514), was donated in Cambodia last Tuesday.
21/03/2006
Women's rights organisations in Cambodia
DanChurchAid is working with gender based violence and women’s rights through local organisations in Cambodia.View list of local partners.
21/03/2006
Food security organisations in Cambodia
DanChurchAid is working with food security through local organisations in Cambodia. View list of local partners.
08/03/2006
DanChurchAid's work in Cambodia
DanChurchAid's work in Cambodia includes Food Security and Political Space programmes.
21/01/2006
Capacity building organisations in Cambodia
DanChurchAid is working with capacity building in Cambodia. View list of local partners.
19/01/2006
Violations of human rights
Finishing 2005 with serious violations of basic human rights, the ruling government seems to devote the New Year to test the strength of the 13 year old and fragile democracy in Cambodia.
20/12/2005
Fighting for children’s rights in Cambodia
Through partners, DanChurchAid supports vulnerable children who have been assaulted, exposed to exploitation or caught in the legal system.
16/12/2005
The right to food
DanChurchAid works with food security in Cambodia - focussing on four intervention areas: Promotion of sustainable livelihood systems, nutrition, empowerment of the poor and advocacy on land rights.
11/12/2005
Increasing the participation of poor people
DanChurchAid in Cambodia is focussing on: Prevention of discrimination against women, prevention of exploitation of children, democratisation and strengthening of civil society, and rule of law and law enforcement.
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