DanChurchAid
Relief Aid
Relief, rehabilitation and development
DanChurchAid pursues an integrated approach to relief and long-term development interventions, ensuring that emergency response operations provide a smooth transition to sustainable development activities and reinforce local capacities to prepare for and respond to disasters.
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Mikkel Østergaard
Relief and rehabilitation DanChurchAid ensures that the emergency relief and rehabilitation support is based on humanitarian principles and the Code of Conduct . Read more...
Disasters preparedness DanChurchAid is focusing on enhancing local capacity for disaster prevention and preparedness as integral elements of development initiatives. Read more...
Internally displaced persons DanChurchAid supports marginalised groups affected by conflict and disaster, internally displaced persons and refugees with emergency relief. Read more...
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Heavy and incessant rainfall since June 16, 2008 has flooded many areas in the eastern states of Assam, Orissa and West Bengal leaving some 93 people dead and close to 2.7 million people affected.
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If the main bridge across the Rhone River in central Geneva collapsed and was not repaired, or attended to within days, or even hours, residents of the Swiss city would be up in arms, lobbying and harassing local, regional or federal authorities to act. Action would likely soon be taken.
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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. See the video about clean drinking water and audioslideshow about a ricebank here.
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An ACT situation report on the response to the disaster in Burma.
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“I felt that I had to help,” says one of ten dedicated young Burmese volunteers. These young people are supporting the survivors of Cyclone Nargis in the severely devastated Irrawaddy Delta region and their task is increasingly demanding.
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Millions of poor people are in danger of being affected by hunger and famine as prices on food will remain on a high level during the next ten years. This is predicted in a new report ahead of the summit in Rome where the only item on the agenda is the global food crisis
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"Aid is going out everyday, and local
organisations are reaching thousands of people,” says an ACT
member representative. Read more...
organisations are reaching thousands of people,” says an ACT
member representative. Read more...
Survivors are still arriving at relief camps in the Irrawaddy Delta nearly two weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit Burma according to Christian Aid partners.
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Responding to the increasingly critical need for humanitarian relief in Myanmar (Burma), ACT International launched a preliminary appeal today for US $5,156,215 to provide emergency assistance for up to 1.3 million cyclone-affected people.
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Thousands of people have been killed or are missing in Burma in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which pushed ashore on May 2. Villages in the Irrawaddy Delta have been completely flattened. Overall one million people may be homeless. Through 21 relief centres, DanChurchAid’s local partners are reaching 100.000 people.
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Despite roadblocks and bad weather conditions DanChurchAid’s partners are able to gain access to some of the worst hit areas in Burma.
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In the aftermath of the worst Asian cyclone since 1991, members of the global alliance, Action by Churches Together (ACT)International, are mobilising support to assist affected populations in Myanmar. DanChurchAid is a member of ACT International.
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The destructions after the cyclone Nargis are huge. DanChurchAid’s representative reports from the delta area which was hit most severely and where no one has received any help and where dead people and animals are floating in the rivers
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Bodies are floating in the rivers; desperate survivors are plundering the rice stores; these are some of the stories that are pouring in from disaster struck areas in Burma. So far DanChurchAid has earmarked 750.000 DKK to arrange for food supplies for the disaster in Burma.
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Accelerating climate changes, war, armed conflict, shrinking of humanitarian space, 9.9 million refugees and 24 million internally displaced. The environment where humanitarian action takes place is evolving rapidly and continuously, posing new challenges for the delivery of humanitarian assistance, disaster risk reduction and protection for affected communities.
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Smashed up houses, broken masts, giant trees strewn across the roads. The damages from the cyclone Nagris are visible everywhere in and around Rangoon, the capital of Burma, where almost 50 percent of all houses are overturned.
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DanChurchAid is pleased to nominate Executive Director Jack Dunford and the staff of Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) for the 2008 Nansen Refugee Award.
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“The memory is still very painful to me,” G. Raju recounts in a faltering vice. Yet, there was nothing he could do. The flood waves were six or seven meters high and he could not reach his house and his family. He still vividly remembers the horrible scenes of devastation the tsunami left in its wake three years ago as it swept through his coastal village in southern India.
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Three years ago, Susantha Jayalath survived the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean and devastated the coast of Sri Lanka. He lost his fishing boat and nets, but within weeks he sold his wife’s jewelry to make the down payment on a new boat. Then a war got in the way of earning a living, and life for Jayalath remains stalled long after the waves receded.
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While political parties and outside mediators struggle to find a peaceful solution to Kenya’s election dispute, young people find a different challenge as they wrestle with crisis in a once peaceful country.
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