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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.

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What we do


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Mine Action

Hiv and Aids

Humanitarian Assistance

The Right to Food

Climate change

Political Space

DR Congo

DCA Mine Action

Challenges

Since 1996, DR Congo has suffered two wars, which have created a significant safety and security problem throughout the country in terms of contamination from landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW). As relative peace has been restored tens of thousands of the people who were forced to flee during the wars are now returning to their homes. However, access to agricultural lands, hunting and fishing areas, water collection points and villages is limited because of ERWs and landmines. This is an obstruction not only to the immediate human needs associated with returning refugee populations but also to long-term development and to reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals.

What we do in DR Congo

DCA has been operational in DR Congo since 2004 when the first Survey/Mine Risk Education (MRE) teams were set up. A full-fledged mine action intervention was set up shortly thereafter, which now includes manual and mechanical clearance, Mine Detection Dogs and several so-called Multi Task Teams (small mobile teams with capacity to survey areas, provide MRE and to instantly deal with spot tasks of single or few ERW).

Fast facts

Area of Operation:

Kabalo area in the Eastern Province of Katanga

Programme staff (gender divided):

10 International staff (8 men and 2 women)
153 national staff (120 men and 33 women)

Tool box:

Manual demining teams
Multi Task Teams
Mine Dog Team (in partnership with Swedish MSB)
Mechanical Team (Mini Mine Wolf in partnership with Swedish MSB)
Mine Risk Education and Survey teams

Although information and results clearly indicate that the landmine/ERW problem is widespread throughout DR Congo, the precise extent of the contamination remains unknown. DCA has been executing general mine action survey (GMAS) in its area of operations as part of the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre (UNMACC) coordinated GMAS in Congo, which should give a better picture of the full contamination. In addition to this, DCA is also executing pre and post clearance assessments to document the impact of its operations.

21/09/2011 Healing Scars of War in DR Congo

A case study on Sexual Gender-Based Violence at Nundu Hospital, South Kivu, Eastern DR Congo, as told and illustrated by DCA staff member James Phillip Gould-Bourn

20/11/2009 DCA handed over cleared fields to villagers

In the village of Mitondo in Congo 27 anti personnel mines were found and destroyed by DanChurchAid. Recently the fine results were celebrated in a handover ceremony.

17/08/2009 War against women

In DR Congo women are being sexually assaulted on a regular basis. Nobody knows the extent of the assaults, but word has it, that it is tens of thousands. Margaret is one of the women, who has survived.

23/12/2008 Still room in the inn: Grassroots hospitality

When war once again chased Bageni Katembereza from her home village in September, she shepherded her six children down the dirt roads of eastern Congo toward safety, not knowing where she was headed, only sensing she had to get away.

11/12/2008 Situation Report on conflict

Security situation:The situation in North Kivu is relatively calm at the moment. However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories.

12/11/2008 Host families of displaced at risk

While official figures of newly displaced people in crowded camps around Goma are still being determined, another reality of displacement remains in the shadows: the thousands of families who have opened their modest homes to fleeing strangers.

06/11/2008 "People fled in all directions"

The security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remains precarious and aid groups do not yet know what effect the most recent violence will have on the latest cease fire or humanitarian situation. First hand report from ACT aid worker in DR Congo.

30/10/2008 A deadly calm in Goma

After panic and lootings by retreating troops a deadly calm has fallen over Goma in Eastern Congo.

20/10/2008 Africa Commission policy notes

The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa.

19/07/2008 From life saving support to self help in DR Congo

In the days, months and years directly after the war in the eastern part of Katanga province in Congo has ended, life has been far from easy. The 650 men, women and children of Kalombo village are just barely getting back to normalcy, since 2003 when the last armed attack occurred.

14/07/2008 DanChurchAid at Roskilde Festival

DanChurchAid played host to a number of activities at this year’s Roskilde, related to both the volunteer refund work and the humantohuman campaign focus on the DR Congo: “Fair Phone – Fair Future.” These activities were symbolic of the often-unfair mining practices that are behind the production of the many mobile phones we buy and use every day.

14/07/2008 DanChurchAid volunteers at Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival could not exist without the help of its many volunteers. Around 23.000 out of Roskildes maximum of 105.000 guests are volunteering as security, chefs, parking guards, sanitation workers and last but not least; refund collectors. While the volunteer refund collectors of DanChurchAid are an equal part of this essential festival element, the work they do and the information they share will travel fa...

13/06/2008 Bad connections

Mobile phone batteries from at least four leading mobile phone producers contain cobalt from DR Congo. These companies run the risk of supporting illegal export and unfair mining practices, which often involve severe human rights abuses. A report by DanWatch, May 30 2008. Commissioned by DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival Copenhagen.

12/06/2008 Video: See a deminer in Action

Mine clearance is thorough and meticulous work and in DR Congo highly influenced by weather and vegetation. This video shows a DanChurchAid deminer in action.

03/06/2008 Kabumba village - the mine situation in Congo

The village of Kamumba was once a prosperous fishing community. But during the five year long war it was turned in to a military camp. Though the war is over, the mines remain, preventing the villagers from returning.

03/06/2008 Linking Humanitarian Mine Action and Food Security

DCA's Humanitarian Mine Action programme concentrates on clearing agricultural land of mines, in order to link mine clearance with food security for the population in affected areas.

03/06/2008 Humanitarian Mine Action in DR Congo

Since mine threats as well as HIV/AIDS prevalence are high in DR Congo, DCA has developed a new approach combining both MRE and HIV/AIDS education programmes. Detailed impact surveys of mine-affected areas are also being carried out, assessing the threats posed and their social and economic repercussions.

02/06/2008 Having a Plan A just isn’t enough here

Line Brylle has just returned home after working with a Humanitarian Mine Action Programme for two years in one of the most war torn countries in the world.

22/05/2008 Fair Phone – Fair Future

Most people know of fair trade coffee and bananas. But when it comes to mobile phones and other electronic equipment, the trade is far from fair. DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival aim to change this now.

14/05/2008 24 million DKK for Humanitarian Mine Action

The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) has granted 24 million DKK for DanChurchAid’s HMA programmes in Africa and Asia.

12/02/2008 One year contract with AECI to mine action acitivities in Eastern Congo

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.

21/12/2007 Investigation of misconduct

The Human Resource Unit in DCA Copenhagen has conducted an investigation about sexual exploitation of female staff members in the HMA programme in DR Congo.

19/10/2007 Grant Officer, DR Congo

DanChurchAid Humanitarian Mine Action Programme in DR Congo.

14/09/2007 Capacity Building in DR Congo

Interview with Peter Ramazani, a Congolese Chief of Operations in training within DanChurchAid's DR Congo Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) Programme.

21/11/2006 New team starts demolitions in South-Kivu

DanChurchAid’s humanitarian mine action programme in eastern DR Congo has recently created a new team for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) tasks. During the first week's work in Uvira the team destroyed 108 UXOs - and that is only the beginning.

15/10/2006 Assistance given to 1.500 homeless families

A series of fires have since mid June until the end of September ravaged and destroyed an estimated 1.500 houses in 8 villages in and around Salamabila in Southeastern Maniema Province in the eastern DR Congo.

11/10/2006 Danish companies clear mines

Throughout the last two years, DanChurchAid has successfully cleared landmines in Albania and Angola together with Danish trusts and companies. DanChurchAid’s campaign continues and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is the next country which will benefit from mine clearance.

05/10/2006 EU and UNMACC visit HMA team in Kalemie

In September, DanChurchAid DR Congo programme based in Kalemie, Katanga Province, received an important visit by Miss Monika Tortschanoff, Human Rights and Civil Society representative of the European Commission Delegation in DR Congo and Mr Harouna Ouedraogo, Programme Manager for United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC) in DR Congo.

05/10/2006 Training of new deminers

In a field, 5 km outside of Kalemie in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 men and 13 women have been training for more than three weeks. Ten of these trainees will form part of two new teams that are to work with humanitarian mine clearance under the "Humanitarian Mine Action Program", funded by Europeaid with 940 000 Euros and running from the April 1, 2006, until March 31, 2008.

22/09/2006 Is there blood on your mobile phone?

DanChurchAid and 20 other Danish NGOs call on the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Per Stig Møller to place conflicts, which are based on trade with natural resources such as coltan used in mobile phones, on the agenda of the Security Council.

01/07/2006 Anne and Anders clear mines in DR Congo

On 15 June 2006 in the assembly hall of Copenhagen Town Hall, DanChurchAid’s General Secretary, Henrik Stubkjær, welcomed the new mine action team, the 12 ambassadors of DanChurchAid's mine action campaign with the first names Anne and Anders. Together they will raise money for mine clearing, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

11/05/2006 From soldier to deminer

It is a happy day for the two DanChurchAid deminers Mayumbu Kamenga aged 42 and Mbungu Vangu aged 38. They have just been demobilised from the national Congolese army, in which they both served almost half of their lives, 23 years and 18 years respectively.

02/05/2006 Destruction of stockpiles in Kalemie

More than 5 tons of explosive ordnance destroyed by DanChurchAid in Kalemie, Tanganyika district, DR Congo.

15/03/2006 Two-year mine action contract in DR Congo

DanChurchAid Humanitarian Mine Action program in DR Congo has signed a two-year contract with Delegation of the European Commission in Kinshasa, starting 1 April 2006, for an amount of 940 000 Euros to finance Mine Action activities in Eastern Congo. In addition to this amount DCA will contribute 114.239 Euro of it own funds to the same project.