27.01.11
Category: Africa, Denmark, Relief work, Horn of Africa'The New Africa’ is the theme for this year’s common national collection in Denmark. On 29 January 2011, the event will take place to raise funds for aid to be facilitated by the largest Danish aid organisations. With emergency relief and other aid activities in more than ten African countries, the Danish Refugee Council is one of the key players among the humanitarian agencies on the African continent.
On 29 January 2011, the annual national collection in Denmark is taking place, this year raising funds for youth projects in Africa. The Danish Refugee Council is on of 12 humanitarian aid organisations in Denmark participating in the national collection. Funds raised during this campaign will be allocated for a new project in support of youth in Somaliland.
The first activities in Africa were initiated in 1998. Today, the Danish Refugee Council is working in more than ten countries throughout Africa, in partnership and collaboration with UN agencies and others aid organisations.
Horn of Africa and Yemen
DRC has been working with Somalis and other displaced populations in Somalia since 1998. In 2008, DRC opened a new office in Yemen, to receive Somalis and other asylum seekers and migrants arriving on the Yemeni shores from Somalia and Djibouti.
West Africa
DRC has been in West Africa since 1998, working with displaced people in southeast Liberia. In 2006, a regional strategy was adopted, acknowledging the instability in Liberia’s neighbouring countries and thus the need for a regional approach.
East and Central Africa
Because of complex crossborder conflicts and related refugee problems in East and Central Africa the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) have extended its operation in the region since the establishment of a program in Uganda in 1999 – Northern Sudan 2004, Southern Sudan 2005, Central African Republic 2007 and Democatic Republic of Congo as late as 2009.
Since 1956
The Danish Refugee Council has a long history of aid and assistance in Denmark since 1956, and has become a fast growing and internationally recognized humanitarian aid organisation in the worlds conflict zones.
Today, the Danish Refugee Council works in more than 30 countries across three continents. The work with refugees ranges widely - from relief to reconstruction operations, to help refugees to return home.
The Danish Refugee Council's international activities aims to protect refugees and internally displaced persons and to promote long term solutions based on humanitarian principles and rights.
Our focus is on world hot spots where people are forced to leave their homes and everything they own to venture out of uncertainty. We help these people to survive but also to establish a life where they are.
