Conservation farming, the growing of crops with minimum disturbance to the soil, is quickly becoming the preferred farming method for several small scale farmers in the rural areas of the Chipata district in Zambia’s Eastern Province. Read more...

For three decades DanChurchAid has supported the Karamojongs. For many reasons there is still a big need for assistance to this poor region. Bad governance, revolutionary movements attacking civilians as well as climate disasters such as floods and droughts that have increased over the last few years, to mention just a few. Read more...

Alternating drought and pouring rain kill both animals and people. The animals cannot find food on the dry soil, so the people see their livelihood reduced to skinny frames. DanChurchAid works to prevent the disastrous consequences of the climate changes.
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Download full version of the new book by Malene Haakanson, who portrays the struggle of an Ethiopian family over the course of one year. Read more...

All of these people are not statistics. This is the child of somebody, it is the mother of some child. It is the father of a family.” A major religious leader says the world can no longer think of HIV in developing countries as a problem that sits in isolation from other countries.
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After leaving the tar road, we have been driving for an hour through deep sand and then onto the vast Zambezi food plains with only human footpaths to follow. In the distance we see a small thatched structure and our local guide tells us that this is where we can find Margaret, the local chairperson of Women for Change. Read more...

Taking in a 13-year-old orphan has turned out to be a true blessing for a poor family in Uganda. Read more...

The refugee camps in Darfur are alive with conversations and activities, where men and women are busy with daily chores, literacy classes, meetings and income-generating activities. Gathered in a community center, the women talk about their fears of being attacked and their desire to go back home. Although Sudan's president al-Bashir ordered 16 humanitarian organisations out of the country in March 2009, the humanitarian organisations and the people in the camps are still going strong. They are hopeful.
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Since January 23rd, 2006, DCA’s HMA Programme in Angola has been helping to demine a vast area just outside the city of Luena known as Alto Campo. Read more...

A member of DanChurchAid’s mine clearing staff in Angola, Antonio Maliti was working in a minefield in the village Chicololo in the eastern part of Angola, when an unintended explosion caused Antonio to loose all fingers on his right hand. Read more...

Derieg camp was and is Fiza’s safe haven since she fled with her family from the Janjaweed 5 years ago. The noise and clutter of the 22.000 IDPs here is nothing compared to the fear of attack, rape or death. Here she can earn money as a tailor, drink tea in the afternoon with her friends at the women’s community center and sleep safe. Read more...

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. Read more...

The sound of the explosion reminded Kalemie’s inhabitants of the horrible periods of war the town has gone through. But this time, the explosion took place under the full control of DanChurchAid’s humanitarian mine action team operating in the Eastern DR Congo. Read more...

Traditionally, Dehana district in the mountains of central Ethiopia is very fertile, but climate changes mean that almost fifty per cent of the population needs food assistance. Read more...

One year after the presidential election between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, we are moving slowly forward, writes Christian Larsen, who has lived and worked in the country for two years.
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I support the recommendations of the Africa Commission – but remember that “you cannot use a report on primary schools to implement a tax reform”, warns Christian Friis Bach, International Director, DanChurchAid. Read more...

On 6 January 2009, the Ethiopian parliament passed the long awaited - and feared – new bill on voluntary associations and organisations. Read more...

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. Read more...

The majority of Malawi’s children are either malnourished or undernourished, some of them so badly, that they don’t live through their early years. The parents of the children most often are too poor to prevent it. Read more...

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. Read more...