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Dialogue between women and men in projects
Today, International Women’s Day is celebrated all over the world. It is all about women’s rights issues and it is an important day for Dorcas. In Egypt, Dorcas country director Mona Wisse fights for women’s…
New Sustainable Project in Albania
Dorcas and ‘Kom over en help’ will support a three-year project in Northern Albania that will enable 280 families to be able to start an agricultural company. Thereby these families are able to support themselves…
Christian Relief Alliance helps El Niño victims
Large parts in Africa are on the verge of a humanitarian disaster because of a severe drought. Millions of people are hungry and there is a huge shortage of water that is causing harvests to…
Visiting the Adopt a Granny project in Egypt
Dorcas employee Anneke Schaap recently met granny Hanijah in Egypt. It turned out to be an important meeting and it became clearly demonstrated the impact of the Adopt a Granny programme in the lives of…
Humanitarian aid for displaced in Ukraine
Press release Andijk, Netherlands, January 12,2016. In December 2015, the Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA), started providing humanitarian aid to displaced people in Ukraine. Over five million people have been directly affected by the conflict and…
A worthy existence for everyone
A few days ago, Dorcas launched a campaign to acquire new sponsors for grannies in Eastern Europe and Africa. Many elderly live in a miserable situation and they have to choose between medication, firewood or food….
Relief aid for drought in Ethiopia
The Dutch Relief Alliance, of which Dorcas is part, is immediately responding on behalf of victims of the drought in Ethiopia, which is already affecting 8.2 million Ethiopians. The alliance has started the Ethiopia Joint…
New sanitation and water commitment
Dorcas is one of 26 Civil Society Organisations that have joined forces in writing a position paper with eleven recommendations for Minister Ploumen of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Netherlands. The recommendations address…
Recommendations for WASH from Minister Ploumen
26 civil society organisations have joined hands and have sent 11 recommendations to Minister Ploumen of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. The recommendations cover various topics such as access, sustainability, governance and finance for clean…
Start distributions parcels for refugees
Last Saturday the distributions of food/hygiene parcels have started at the Gevgelija transit centre. At the moment Dorcas is distributing 150 family parcels a day, benefiting around 750 people a day. The flow of refugees…
Dorcas Assists Refugees Coming to Europe
Dorcas Aid International has started an emergency response effort to the growing refugee crisis in Eastern Europe. More than 50,000 people have passed through Greece into Macedonia on their way to the European Union and…
Eye to eye
The past week and a half I’ve been working in Iraq with the team here on the financial side of things. During one of the days I went along on an assessment trip to some…
Another Hospitainer to Syria
In July, a new hospitainer left from Antwerp to Idlib, Syria. In 2013, Dorcas sent its first mobile hospital, the hosptainer to Homs (Syria). Many citizens and victims of the civil war have received medical…
Clean, safe and sustainable water
Mr Omondi Oyier is head teacher of Sirandu Primary School. The school begun in1983 and currently has a population of 393 pupils of whom 183 are girls. Mr Oyier was transferred to head the school…
Making a difference in 2014
Impact Dorcas reached 356,832 people in 2014. Health In 26 projects in Albania, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Ukraine, Russia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa and South Sudan – 45,122 people gained (improved) access to health…
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