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The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) has granted 24 million DKK for DanChurchAid’s HMA programmes in Africa and Asia.
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A large group of children gather in front of Um Gozein School in Mershing, South Darfur, filling the yard with the excited chatter of their young voices. They are lined up and eager to receive school kits being distributed by ACT-Caritas.
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The government has just published the composition of the new Africa Commission. DanChurchAid’s international director, Christian Friis Bach is on the list.
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The dramatic price increase on basic food such as rice, maize and various cereal crops, has dire consequences for the poor in developing countries. This is reported by DanChurchAid’s representatives in Asia, Central America and Africa.
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Three years ago a truck overturned in Angola claiming nine lives - the most tragic accident in the historiy of DanChurchAid
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According to a new report published by DanChurchAid, the number of AIDS orphans is projected to exceed 20 million worldwide by 2010. In 2005 that same figure was 15 million orphans. It is a tragedy of enormous dimensions and it puts a tremendous strain on the traditional family safety net and community structures.
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DanChurchAid (DCA) Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) program in DR Congo has signed a one year contract with the AECI, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation under the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for an amount of 554.713 Euros to finance Mine Action activities in Eastern Congo.
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Human suffering is often visible and obvious in both natural distasters and civil conflict – hunger, injuries and people forced from their homes by destruction or violence. But often there are hidden and less visible needs of people who are among the most vulnerable in an emergency situation.
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Under the shade of a straw roof, the space is alive with chatter. Children play outside while women gather in groups to practice newly learnt skills that include making pasta and traditional mat weaving.
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As the political stalemate continues and violence associated with the highly controversial December 27th elections of 2007 escalates and spreads, camps for those displaced throughout Kenya are operating beyond their capacity.
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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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Finnish report from DanChurchAid’s Humanitarian Mine Action project in Eastern Angola
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Heavy rain has made the numerous rivers in southern Africa overflow their banks. Thousands of families have been evacuated and need help. DanChurchAid sends one million Danish kroner (DKK) to emergency aid to the most severely affected countries which are Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The emergency work is coordinated through Action by Churches Together, ACT International.
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Ann Owino is one among tens of thousands of Kenyans forced from their homes by post-election violence. She wants to return home to the Kiambiu slum with her two children, but fears doing so in the midst of the ongoing turmoil.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and DanChurchAid (DCA) hosted an international seminar 'Protection of Civilians - Learning from Darfur' in Copenhagen autumn 2007. A report has been made based on the seminar. It can be downloaded from www.r2p.eu.
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Millions of Kenyans went to the polls to choose their president in the national elections after Christmas. But for Benta Nyipolo and hundreds of thousands of Kenyans like her, being forced from their homes in the violence sparked by the election dispute was something they did not choose.
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Rising tensions and violence in Kenya following a disputed election has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people with tens of thousands fleeing their homes.
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Climate change, which results in floods, unpredictable rain, drought, and hunger, occurs in many African countries today. Traditional pastoral people are among the worst hit. The pastoralists depend on the welfare of their animals, which means adequate access to water and fertile grazing land.
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DanChurchAid works with HIV/AIDS through local organisations in Malawi. DanChurchAid's local partners in Malawi are mainly church-based organisations with an understanding of the situation of the poor at grass roots level, gained through a long-standing presence in the communities.
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A humanitarian problem that will not go away quickly: Recent killings of African Union peacekeepers and World Food Programme contract drivers combined with detentions of humanitarian workers in the conflict-ridden Darfur region of western Sudan are just the latest examples of a deteriorating situation, which is prompting increased anxiety by those affected by the ongoing crisis, as well as by those responding to the emergency, soon to enter its fifth year.
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George William Odeke is a local councilperson in the flooded village of Adurukoi in the eastern Ugandan district of Katakwi. “I don’t know what will happen next year because the food is just finished. If the rain continues, we will undoubtedly need food relief,” said Mr.
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A group of 100 marginalized women have this summer been selected to participate in a goat husbandry project in order to ensure sustainable livelihoods. They are all from an area of Ethiopia that has struggled with drought for the last six years.
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Due to illness, kidnapping and forced marriage, 21-year-old Medina Duna had to quit school. She is one of the 100 participants in the DanChurchAid’s goat husbandry project and she now hopes it will make her able to send her oldest daughter to school.
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Adanech Eriso is the mother of four children and recently she became the owner of four goats through DanChurchAid’s goat husbandry project. She has decided that each goat should provide for each child’s school fee.
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Heavy torrential rains in Ethiopia have caused severe flooding in the Amhara and Gambella Regional States affecting more than 60,000 people and destroying farmland, roads and homes. The intensity of the rainfall and the magnitude of the floods is reported to be worse than the 2006 rainy season in which approximately 98,000 people were affected in the various areas of the region.
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Recent heavy rains have caused extensive flooding and damage throughout much of west, central and east Africa. The floods have destroyed homes, farmland and local infrastructure, while displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
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Research in literacy levels in Karamoja region using population projections and visits at every Manyatta reveals that eighty eight percent of the people in the region cannot read and write the Moroto district Education Officer, Mr. Paul Abul has said.
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Watch how the Ugandan NGO KADP works with drought preparedness in Karamoja and how they help improve the quality of life for the Karamojongs, who are among the poorest groups in Uganda.
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Interview with Peter Ramazani, a Congolese Chief of Operations in training within DanChurchAid's DR Congo Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) Programme.
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A milk goat project funded by the DanChurchAid, a Danish Charity Organisation for women groups in the districts of Moroto and Nakapiripirit has improved the quality of life in more than 100 families.
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One thing you notice on returning to Karamoja after a year or so is that someone has splendidly done well out of selling agriculrural products, sorghum, millet, beans, Sim sim rice and potatoes.
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Authorities in Moroto district have blamed the outbreak of infectious livestock diseases in the entire Karamoja region on cattle rustling across the borders to Kenya.
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An infectious livestock disease has broken out in the district of Moroto and other parts Nakapiripiriti districts killing hundreds of animals, the Livestock development assistant, Mr. Simon Peter Louse has said.
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Local leadership in Karamoja region are seeking plans to end the long running cattle rustling battles with their neighbours, the Pokot and Turkana of Kenya.
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Despite the intensity of the ongoing disarmament exercise in Karamoja region through cordon and search method, 8 people have been killed and 318 livestock have been raided in Moroto district in the month of June alone.
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Leadership in Karamoja have named Kenya, Southern Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia as the main sources of most of the illicit arms in Karamoja region.
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With thousands of people forcefully driven from their homes into overcrowded camps, where both resources and opportunities are short, disputes have become a frequent feature of life for many of Darfur’s displaced.
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Rose Imilima lives in the eastern Ugandan district of Katakwi. She never imagined that she would spend her life struggling to survive. In fact, she never thought she would spend her life alone, but when her husband died, she was left without a means to support herself.
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One evening towards the end of June, a crowd of 300 people or so gather round the local football pitch in Zalingei town in West Darfur. For the first time ever, a football match is being played between young people from Khamsadegaig camp and the local youth team from Zalingei. The match, organised by ACT-Caritas, is an effort to bridge the gap between those displaced by the conflict and the local community.
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In South Darfur, another 3,000 people have been forced to flee their homes because of brutal attacks on their villages, adding their number to the more than 2.5 million others in Darfur that have suffered the same fate. The conflict has killed at least 200,000 people since violence escalated in 2004.
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Five months ago, Lino Lokwkawa and his family came out of hiding from the mountains. They had fled to escape the violence during the 20-year civil war in south Sudan. Now, the Lokwkawa family and others have begun returning home to Ikotos County in Eastern Equatoria and are re-establishing their lives in the village of Longairo.
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One of the poorest parts of Ethiopia got an extraordinary visit in mid June. The Danish Minister of Development, Ulla Tørnæs, visited the DanChurchAid agriculture component of the Ethio-Danish Joint programme in North Wollo.
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The Mennonite Central Committee, a long-standing partner of ACT-Caritas, sent over 40,000 blankets to the Darfur Emergency Program (DERO), to assist conflict-affected communities in the province. But these are no ordinary blankets - they have been individually hand-made by members of the Mennonite community in the U.S.
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On Sunday 17th June, an ACT-Caritas employee was shot and killed on his way home from work in West Darfur. ”This killing shows how cruel and chaotic the situation is in Darfur. It’s unacceptable to do humanitarian work in this environment but we have to continue. A lot of people are dependent on our help,” says Lisa Henry, Relief Director in DanChurchAid.
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DanChurchAid continues to work in Darfur despite the worsening security situation. 72,000 people are being provided with access to clean water, latrines, and skills in good hygiene practices.
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DCA partner Circles of Hope in Zambia is working to improve awareness of HIV/AIDS, to encourage people to attend counseling and testing, they fight against stigmatization by openly declaring their status. They encourage positive living and try some income generating activities to help the affected families.
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Sudan: A sand track leads north from Zalingei to the village of Abata, but these days few people travel along it. The track is flanked by tall acacia trees, and every so often the track cuts through a group of deserted, roofless shells of buildings. The countryside is silent. Where there were villages, only the wind now speaks through the trees.
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Not every year can tell good news about the harvest in Ethiopia. But after last year’s drought which affected millions of people, and huge floods affecting another hundreds of thousands, the Ethiopian government announces that a good harvest is expected in 2007.
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On Thursday, March 15, DanChurchAid and 20 of its local partners paid a notable visit to the Ethiopian Parliament. The group saw the parliament in session in the morning and in the afternoon the group met with chairpersons of three Standing Committees. This is the first time in a long while that the civil society and members of Parliament engage in a dialogue and the meeting was mentioned in the evening news on the national television channel, ETV.
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Almost 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV, and every day more people are added to the list. One of the biggest obstacles is the severe lack of nurses and bad healthcare systems.
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