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."

Focus in Central America and Haiti

DanChurchAid’s work in Latin America takes place in a concentrated region of countries in Central America where we have been present since the beginning of the 1990s.
In the Caribbean, we support the rebuilding and development work in Haiti after the massive earthquake in the poor Caribbean island state in 2010.

The work in Haiti is managed by our partners in the ACT Alliance.

The work in Central America is focused on providing food security and promoting human rights and democracy.

In addition, we take measures related to disaster risk reduction in Honduras and Guatemala and also to a limited degree in Nicaragua. Sister agencies in El Salvador are members of the ACT Alliance.

We support women, the poorest and indigenous population groups in their organization and advocacy work, and we work to promote equality before the law and fight corruption.
In the remaining parts of Latin America, DanChurchAid gives its support via our partners in the ACT Alliance when disasters strike.

Poverty, migration, inequality and disaster

The entire region of Central America has been affected by massive poverty, unemployment and migration from the rural areas. Also, the economic and social inequality is great.
These problems are especially significant for the indigenous Maya Indian population groups in Guatemala that make up more than half of the population, and also smaller groups of indigenous people in Honduras and Nicaragua.

Politically and historically, Central America has been marked by authoritarian governments, bloody conflicts (Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua) and social and political riots or coups d’etat like in Honduras in June 2009.

But even though peace has been made and free trade agreements have been signed in the region, social inequality and poverty is still widespread, especially among the indigenous population groups.

Armed conflicts and riots have been replaced, to a great extent, by conflicts about the right to land and natural resources, as well as rampant crime and violence that flourishes in an often corrupt police force and legal system.