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The Danish Refugee Council is one of the key humanitarian actors in Syria and its neighboring countries, as more than 500,000 persons receive emergency relief from DRC each month in the region. The situation in and around Syria is the largest humanitarian crisis the world is facing and 30% of the population have left their homes as a ...
In October 2011, Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted, who had been working on a demining project with the Danish Refugee Council, were kidnapped by Somali pirates in Galkayo. [1] Attempts by the Council to enlist local Somali elders and traditional leaders to assist in freeing the hostages were unsuccessful, and the pirates refused an offer ...
Danish Demining Group (DDG) is the Human Security Unit under the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), specialised in clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance and reducing armed violence. DDG’s mission is to recreate a safe environment where one can live without the threat of landmines, unexploded ordnance and small arms and light weapons. [1]
The top U.N. official for refugees praised Kenya’s plans Tuesday for an integration program that would aim to make refugees self-sufficient, as he met with the Kenyan president on World Refugee Day.
She also currently serving as a volunteer with Danish Refugee Council for their women empowerment programme in the camp. In June 2018, she participated alongside fellow refugees at TEDxKakuma Camp which was historically the first ever TEDx event in the world to have been held in a refugee camp.
Due to the 'existential threat' posed by the refugee camp, the Kenyan government has decided to close it despite the 350,000 people living there. Kenya will close world's biggest refugee camp this ...
Since 1997 the Danish Refugee Council has been providing relief services and contributing to the development of sanitary water systems throughout Kenya and other parts of East Africa. [ 12 ] Millions in Kenya have also had water supply systems built by volunteer organisations and self-help groups, usually with funding from donations and support ...
Kenya has been a long-term development partner of Denmark. Danish aid to Kenya goes back to Kenya's independence in 1963. Kenya is one of the four original beneficiaries for Danish development assistance. In 1989, Kenya was one of the first Danish program countries.