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."

Floods in Pakistan, 2010

In August 2010 the annual monsoon in Pakistan turned into the worst flooding disaster the world has ever seen.

To begin with, heavy rains caused flooding in Pakistan’s mountainous regions to the north, and when the rain kept falling, the flooding spread along the Indus River and its tributaries in four provinces.

When the water was at its highest, an area the size of England was flooded – including the country’s best farm land.

Nearly 20 million people, that is, more than a tenth of the country’s population, were affected by the disaster. At one point, eight million Pakistanis needed immediate emergency aid.

What we do: Long-term contribution

Following the immediate relief aid work, DanChurchAid has focused on:

Helping families rebuild their homes before the winter
Supporting particular villages which have received seed corn, fertiliser and tools to help them become self-sufficient again
Support for Food for Work programmes where the poor can make a week’s salary by working on reconstructing the infrastructure: houses, roads, bridges and schools

What we did in Pakistan

DanChurchAid and our local partner in ACT Alliance, Church World Service (CWS), began carrying out relief work immediately after the disaster had occurred.

The relief work focused on five of the worst afflicted areas north and south of Islamabad in the Swat, Mansehra, Kohistan, Sibber and Dera Ismail Khan Districts.

Target groups

DanChurchAid’s contribution was organised so as to help the most afflicted groups:

Families with no income, the elderly and handicapped for instance
Vulnerable families, for instance, lone parents, orphans and the elderly
Children and mothers who are affected by illness and infections

Immediately following the disaster, the relief work concentrated on distributing the most vital relief aid:

Food and non-food packages to more than 137.000 people

Food packages contain wheat, oil, rice, sugar, lentils, tealeaves and salt and covers a family of 8’s needs for 1 month.

Non-food packages contains a bucket and a water bottle, kitchen utensils (knife, cups, steel plates, pots, cutlery, etc.)

Tents and plastic tarpaulins

Tents and plastic tarpaulins, which provided thousands with shelter from the rain and winds.

Health services and medicine

Ten mobile clinics with teams of doctors and nurses cared for more than 100.000 injured, treated sequelae like diarrhea and malaria and transported badly wounded to the hospital.