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."

A new nation with great start-up trouble

Immediately following the peaceful celebration of Macedonia as an independent country in 1991, great challenges came crashing down on the country.

Challenges

Macedonia was already the poorest and most underdeveloped republic in the former Yugoslavia, and from day one this small Balkan country and its approx. two million inhabitants had to defend its identity. Especially towards Greece who would not recognize the name of the country because a northern part of Greece had the same name. Therefore, Greece started a trade embargo against Macedonia which lasted for several years.

I 1999 Macedonia welcomed 350,000 refugees from Kosovo. This hospitality had great economic consequences for the country.

Two years after the Kosovo war, in March 2001, fights broke out between Albanian rebellion groups and Macedonian security forces. These confrontations took Macedonia to the verge of a civil war which could have resulted in the third war in the Balkan region after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, at worst.

This is what DanChurchAid did

DanChurchAid worked in Macedonia during the period from 1996 to 2008 via the umbrella organisation MCIC. With regard to the flow of refugees from Kosovo in 1999 and during the internal conflict in 2001, the aid consisted in distribution of relief packages and in reconstruction.

At the same time, DanChurchAid focused on development work. Some selected citizen organizations were educated to take an active part in the political debate on better conditions for the poorest part of the population.

In addition, DanChurchAid helped furthering the dialogue between the religious communities in Macedonia to make them contribute constructively to the development.

Roma people

The Roma people had a high priority in the development work. In 2001 the fundraising from the international initiative Operation Dagsvaerk was donated to DanChurchAid’s project about education for Roma children.

DanChurchAid worked to improve the general conditions for

Poor village communities
Ethnic minorities, focusing especially on Roma people
Socially disadvantaged groups such as young addicts and HIV positive
Women fighting for political influence

Our partners

MCIC, Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation, Skopje, is an umbrella organisation working across ethnic groups. It was founded in 1993.

During the Kosovo war in 1999 and the internal armed conflict in 1991, MCIC was leading the way in the distribution of material aid.

Today the organisation is an important player in Macedonian society with regard to the rebuild of civil society.

MCIC is now a sound and autonomous organization, and therefore, DCA was able to cease the financial support to the organization by the end of 2008. The phase-out took place over a period of several years. The organization still provides know-how and experience to collaboration partners in Russia and Central Asia.