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• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 23, 2009Merry Christmas from ACT

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• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 21, 2009Jan Egeland: “Saving human lives is no place for amateurs”

  The way ACT International handled the tsunami catastrophe is an example for others. The members were effective; they understood the need for coordination. “They did well”.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 18, 2009Pakistan: Disease Outbreaks Averted, Despite Delayed Funds

  Dr. Kashif Islam knows what it costs to respond to the massive medical needs of overlooked Pakistani families displaced by the military conflict in Swat earlier this year.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 18, 2009Gaza: Healing the Traumatized City

  “My child has stopped talking” one woman says. “I have a boy who is 15 years old. Since the war he has become a bed-wetter. He can’t go to the bathroom at night”, says another.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 17, 2009West Sumatra: In the ruins: “A Place Called Home”

  The earthquake has changed many lives in West Sumatra. They've lost their houses and loved ones. Yusmaida, 43, is one of the earthquake-affected people in Pinjauan in the Sungai Limau sub-district of Padang Pariaman.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 17, 2009What are the Churches Doing in Copenhagen?

  Why should religious people be involved in the climate change debate? And how should religious people, particularly Christians, view themselves in relation to the earth and God, the creator of the earth?

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 17, 2009Copenhagen: “Stay Until You Agree”

  Nelson Muffuh from Christian Aid today urged heads of state and government meeting in Copenhagen to show leadership now while there is still time - and come up with a fair, ambitious and binding (FAB) deal on climate change.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 16, 2009ACT Book Launch: Five Years After the Tsunami

  Five years after the tsunami hit the beaches of the Indian Ocean and killed more than 227,000 people, ACT International has released a book about the catastrophe.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 16, 2009Copenhagen: John Nduna Hopeful for the Right Decision

  Newly appointed ACT General Secretary John Nduna is a wanted man. The former banker, who went into the humanitarian sector in 1990, is wanted in every corner of the big hall at Bella Centre.

• SITUATION REPORT: DECEMBER 16, 2009Pakistan: Security Hinders Assistance from Reaching Many IDPs

  Since the start of December, immediately following the Eid holidays in Pakistan, terrorist attacks have occurred at various key locations in Pakistan.

• SITUATION REPORT: DECEMBER 16, 2009Jakarta: West Sumatra Earthquake

  Government aims to: restore social and psychological well-being; provide temporary shelter and basic services including clean water and sanitation, livelihood, education and food security; and establish the foundation for reconstruction.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 15, 2009ACT in Copenhagen: Thousands Demonstrate for Change

  Thousands of demonstrators might not change the views and decisions of politicians but the weekend’s peaceful climate demonstration in Copenhagen at least made people come together with a common vision for a better world.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 15, 2009Tutu: “God is smiling in Copenhagen”

  

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 11, 2009Free Download: Ethiopian Family Struggles Against Climate Change

  First the rain came too early. Later, when the crops needed water, there was not a single drop. Then, suddenly, the rain came. And then came the frost. That is how the season was for a peasant farmer in Ethiopia.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 10, 2009ACT Alliance: John Nduna Appointed as General Secretary

  John Nduna has been appointed as General Secretary of the ACT Alliance, one of the biggest humanitarian networks in the world.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 8, 2009Copenhagen: Demand for Climate Justice

  ACT International is calling on world leaders at Copenhagen to take action now to stop climate change, challenging them to clean up the climate for the sake of millions of the world’s poorest people.

• NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 1, 2009World AIDS Day: Creativity Key for HIV Work in Pakistan

  For vulnerable Pakistanis, lack of access to basic information on HIV is almost an epidemic in itself.

• NEWS STORY: NOVEMBER 30, 2009HIV is Not statistical, Tutu says

  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.

• NEWS STORY: NOVEMBER 27, 2009Myanmar (Burma): Education that Saves Lives

  The next time a cyclone hits Myanmar (Burma), the population in 50 villages will know what to do.

• NEWS STORY: NOVEMBER 25, 2009Tamil Nadu, India: Anxious Wait for Emergency Assistance After Flood

  Tamil Nadu communities desperately need assistance for relief from floods and landslides that have killed 95 since the beginning of this month.

• SITUATION REPORT: NOVEMBER 18, 2009Guatemala: Food Crises Threatens

  A serious food crisis is threatening Guatemala. Change of weather has destroyed the field crops, and stored food from last season is about to finish.

• NEWS STORY: NOVEMBER 17, 2009Tamil Nadu: Floods and Landslides Worsen

  The death toll in the Tamil Nadu floods and landslides has risen to 80, further evidence that India is at the mercy of the dramatically changing climate.

• NEWS STORY: NOVEMBER 16, 2009Darfur: A Flying Visit

  For two hours our small plane droned its way south-eastwards from Khartoum towards our destination of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.

• NEWS STORY: NOVEMBER 16, 2009Darfur: Darfur Must Not Become a Forgotten Emergency

  Darfur is in danger of becoming a forgotten emergency, according to Nyika Musiyazwiriyo, the outgoing Head of Programmes for the joint ACT/Caritas Darfur Programme.

• NEWS STORY: NOVEMBER 4, 2009Vietnam: Helping People Be Better Prepared

  Being better prepared for harsher and more frequent disasters is a key aspect of ACT International’s appeal for a typhoon-hit Vietnam province.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 30, 2009Philippines: ACT workers preparing for fourth storm

  ACT International members in the Philippines are bracing for a fourth storm in just over a month as Typhoon Mirinae bears down on already devastated northern regions.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 28, 2009Myanmar: Emergency Drill Tests Village’s Skills

  A drill in emergency preparedness brought an entire Myanmar village together, the first such drill in a country still recovering from the devastation of Cyclone Nargis last year.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 22, 2009West Sumatra: ACT Minding the Gaps - One Thing Less to Worry About

  The tiny village of Palak Pisang consists of eight families separated from the next closest village by about two kilometres. For the people of Palak Pisang, those two kilometres might as well be a thousand.

• SITUATION REPORT: OCTOBER 22, 2009Pakistan: ACT Responds to Assist South Waziristan IDPs

  The security situation for civilians and aid workers in Pakistan has deteriorated further with an increase in military offensives and militant attacks over the past couple of weeks.

• SITUATION REPORT: OCTOBER 21, 2009Indonesia: West Sumatra Earthquake

  Nearly three weeks after the 7.9 Richter Scale earthquake struck West Sumatra, ACT members continue to deliver assistance to affected areas.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 16, 2009South India: ACT Food Programme Reaches 60,000

  major ACT International feeding programme in flood-hit southern India is providing meals for nearly 60,000 people but is struggling to generate financial support at a time of many recent typhoon and earthquake emergencies in the Asia region.

• SITUATION REPORT: OCTOBER 16, 2009Pakistan: Boosted Humanitarian Efforts

  More than two-thirds of internally displaced people have returned home. While this may be good news, it also means one-third remains displaced. These people still require assistance in terms of food, shelter and medical attention.

• SITUATION REPORT: OCTOBER 14, 2009Cambodia: Typhoon Ketsana and Rainwater Floods

  Typhoon Ketsana caused major havoc in eight provinces of Cambodia on September 29 - 30, 2009. Kompong Thom Province experienced the greatest level of damage.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 12, 2009West Sumatra: Earthquake victims’ health worsening

  Earthquake survivors' health is deteriorating rather than improving.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 12, 2009West Sumatra: The circle of life continues

  Two heavily pregnant women get food assistance from ACT International in a remote village.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 9, 2009South India: “Second battle” of sanitation, income and shelter

  Loss of shelter, sanitation and sources of income are the biggest problems facing survivors of the worst floods in southern India in 100 years.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 8, 2009Samoa: Actions Speak Louder than Words

  When Victoria Lio Nansen and friends heard of the devastation wrought by the tsunami on southeast Upolu island, they had no hesitation offering to help

• SITUATION REPORT: OCTOBER 7, 2009Samoa: ACT Alliance Response to the Samoa Tsunami

  On the morning of September 29, a 5m-high tsunami hit Samoa, killing 137 people in Samoa, with two people still missing.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 7, 2009Southern India: ACT International Appeal Targets Poorest

  ACT International has launched a preliminary appeal for flood relief in southern India for relief operations underway, as fears mount that the region could face severe food shortages.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 7, 2009West Sumatra: Daughter’s Schooling Before House Repairs

  Policeman Abiudin Gulo dropped by the ACT International humanitarian relief post Wednesday morning to see the activities at this “post that never sleeps”.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 7, 2009West Sumatra: Volunteers Working Round the Clock

  Since the earthquake hit the coast of Sumatra, Santi Laia has been working round the clock. She sleeps only three or four hours a day. The 20-year-old is one out of two dozen volunteers with the regional council of churches.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 6, 2009West Sumatra: A Congregation Opens Its Hearts and Doors

  Calm, handy, responsive, and firm are words that come to mind in describing pastor Michiko Saren, who serves the Efrata congregation of the West Indonesia Protestant Church in Padang.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 6, 2009Padang: At the Heart of the Relief Effort

  More than 1000 people have died after last Wednesday’s 7.6 earthquake and thousands more are thought to be missing.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 6, 2009Sumatra: Mobile Medical Teams of ACT International Help Injured Villagers

  The old man is trying to smile, although must be suffering great pain. He has bruises and cuts all over his thin body.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 6, 2009Philippines: People Scared of What's to Come

  More than half a million displaced people in the Philippines are trying to create a living out of nothing. Their homes were washed away when tropical storm Ketsana hit a week ago.

• SITUATION REPORT: OCTOBER 5, 2009West Sumatra: Earthquake

  ACT members coordinate to deliver basic relief and medical assistance to affected families in West Sumatra.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 5, 2009From Earthquake Survivor to Rescuer

  At the moment the 7.9 Richter scale earthquake hit, Mr. Zukri Amra was shopping in a market not far from his home. Much of the building collapsed and the lights went out as sparks flew around him.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 5, 2009West Sumatra Families Living in Fear

  From the street of Villa Mega, south of Padang, few houses seem to have been badly damaged or destroyed by last week’s 7.6 earthquake.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 2, 2009Indonesia: ACT Doctors and Nurses Reach Sumatra

  ACT International is sending medical personnel and equipment to treat at least 2000 people in the worst-hit areas of West Sumatra.

• SITUATION REPORT: OCTOBER 2, 2009West Sumatra: Earthquake

  ACT members coordinate to deliver basic relief and medical assistance to affected families in West Sumatra.

• NEWS STORY: OCTOBER 1, 2009Samoa: Children on way to School Taken by the Tsunami

  The whole population of Samoa is in mourning as survivors continue to search for their missing loved ones. Bodies are being found buried in the sand and washed up into the trees by the huge waves.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 30, 2009ACT in Worst-Hit Areas of Manila

  The death toll in the storm that lashed the Philippines has risen sharply to 240, according to government figures, with threats of worse weather later this week.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 30, 2009More Rain Forecast for Typhoon-Hit Vietnam

  Typhoon Ketsana, which caused havoc in the Philippines at the weekend, has killed 41 people in Vietnam.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 28, 2009Philippines: Water Neck High

  Almost half a million people are affected by floods in the Philippines, where the death toll until now is 144.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 24, 2009Honduras: Curfew to be Lifted

  The interim government of Honduras says it will suspend the curfew it imposed on Monday when ousted President Manuel Zelaya made a dramatic return home.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 22, 2009Conditions Expected to Worsen for Indonesian Earthquake Survivors

  Life for people left homeless by the West Java earthquake will worsen in the coming weeks unless assistance is stepped up, ACT International members fear.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 22, 2009Honduras: The President is Back

  Manuel Zelaya has secretly gone back to Honduras. He is now residing in the embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa, after having been out of the country since the coup d’etat three month ago.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 14, 2009Rapid Support Team Launch Sept. 15

  ACT International’s new Rapid Support Team will ensure teams can be deployed anywhere in the world within days of a disaster.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 9, 2009Indonesia Earthquake – Rebuilding the Damage

  In the aftermath of last week’s 7.3 magnitude earthquake off the south coast of West Java, people continue to live in tents and under tarpaulins.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 9, 2009Preliminary Appeal for Indonesia Later this Week

  The churches’ global response agency, ACT International, will this week issue a preliminary appeal for relief operations in the wake of the Indonesia earthquake which killed at least 74.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 4, 2009Indonesia: ACT Relief Reaching Isolated Communities

  ACT International assistance is reaching some of the most isolated and worst affected earthquake-hit villages not helped by other agencies.

• NEWS STORY: SEPTEMBER 3, 2009Indonesia: ACT members respond to West Java earthquake

  ACT members in Indonesia sending aid and rapid response teams to assess impact of earthquake.

• NEWS STORY: AUGUST 28, 2009New WCC Top is “excellent news for ACT”

  Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, an ordained pastor in the Church of Norway, has been elected as a new general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

• NEWS STORY: AUGUST 21, 2009Pakistan: Difficult Return for the Homeless

  Four million displaced people in Pakistan are returning to their homes. The first hundred thousand have left, and meet hard conditions.

• FEATURE STORY: AUGUST 20, 2009Darfur: Sleeping Tight in Safe Haven

  Derieg camp in Darfur was, and is, Fiza’s safe haven. She has been living there since she fled with her family from the Janjaweed militia 5 years ago.

• FEATURE STORY: AUGUST 19, 2009World Humanitarian Day: Field worker -- A dangerous job

  Why do people become aid workers under harsh living conditions, surrounded by diseases, dangers and poverty?

• NEWS STORY: JULY 31, 2009 No rain today: Ethiopia in climate change

  On Sunday 5 July, it finally rained in Dehana district in the mountains of central Ethiopia after eight months without a drop of water. The area looks like a dusty stone desert.

• NEWS STORY: JULY 27, 2009Displaced Pakistanis are asking: Is it really safe to return?

  Authorities have announced that areas that were the site of recent fighting, including Buner and the Swat Valley, are now clear. But the displaced are asking if it is really safe for them to return.

• NEWS STORY: JULY 27, 2009Pakistan: Displaced seek shelter house by house

  Awalkhan has four spare rooms in his modest house, now a temporary hostel to 30 people.

• FEATURE STORY: JULY 27, 2009DR Congo: Drama against Rape

  The use of drama is not new to the local ACT partner organizations in Congo, in fact many of the organizations are using drama therapeutically as well as to highlight issues difficult to talk about in public.

• FEATURE STORY: JULY 23, 2009Syria: Iraqi refugee women showing off their skills as beauticians

  While Syria allows Iraqi refugees to stay in Syria, they are not officially allowed to work, leading many to scramble to find ways to support themselves and their families

• FEATURE STORY: JULY 23, 2009Gaza: “We are captive and slowly suffocating”

  UN estimates that 98 percent of private businesses have closed and more than 100,000 people have lost their jobs since June 2007, with total unemployment at about 45 percent.

• FEATURE STORY: JULY 21, 2009Bangladesh: Rebuilding Life after the cyclones

  P. Kristian Pedersen, DanChurchAid, recently visited Barguna in Southern Bangladesh to review the progress of the rehabilitation work after two cyclones hit the area within 18 month.

• FEATURE STORY: JULY 17, 2009Georgia: After the War, A Retiree Struggles to Rebuild His Life

  Gaioz’s dream of a peaceful retirement was shattered when war broke out last August between Russian and Georgian forces.

• SITUATION REPORT: JULY 15, 2009Sri Lanka: Update on ACT assistance to conflict IDPs

  Protection remains the primary concern for ACT International with nearly all IDPs confined within the camps, restricting their ability to access employment, attend regular schools, visit family, and ultimately choose their place of residence.

• SITUATION REPORT: JULY 10, 2009Pakistan: IDPs fear returning back to their homes

  With the completion of the rapid response phase, humanitarian agencies are still struggling to implement a comprehensive initiative focusing on education, food security, health, and protection of the displaced people.

• FEATURE STORY: JULY 10, 2009Gaza: Lifting childrens' spirits with music

  110 children aged 6-15 years attended the event at the Holst Cultural Center/Gaza celebrating the launch of Rim Banna’s new album April Blossoms. It has been produced in cooperation with Norwegian Church Cultural Workshop.

• NEWS STORY: JULY 8, 2009ACT Honduras Forum members’ work stalled, affecting people in extreme poverty

  Implementing members and their partners are concerned that the crisis is causing a delay in project development and, thereby, affecting mostly people in extreme poverty.

• NEWS STORY: JULY 2, 2009ACT members strongly condemn Coup d’Etat in Honduras

  There is an immanent need to a re-establishment of all democratic rights and liberties in Honduras, including freedom of expression, the right of the Honduran people to mobilize, organize and to access information.

• NEWS STORY: JUNE 30, 2009Pakistan: 3.5 million people affected. “We are not used to queuing for food.”

  They have never been standing in queues for food before. The proud population of Swabi and Mardan Districts of the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan ask for jobs instead.

• NEWS STORY: JUNE 30, 2009Pakistan: Homeless in the heat

  Zeshan is barely four days old and may have already lost a home.

• NEWS STORY: JUNE 9, 2009Pakistan: Displaced women and children increasingly vulnerable, warns ACT

  Displaced women and young girls are facing increasingly severe hardships in the Mardan and Swabi areas of Pakistan, as they have explained to members of ACT International.

• SITUATION REPORT: JUNE 5, 2009Massive needs as Pakistan conflict widens

  Recent fighting between Pakistani military forces and Taliban insurgents in the northwest part of the country has uprooted more than three million people.

• NEWS STORY: JUNE 4, 2009Chad: ACT projects continue despite ongoing security threats

  While calm has returned to the eastern parts of Chad after heavy fighting in early May, ACT emergency operations are still hampered by ongoing banditry.

• NEWS STORY: MAY 28, 2009Honduras: ACT mobilises in response to major quake

  Members of ACT International in Honduras are mobilising to assess needs and respond if necessary to the early morning magnitude-7.1 earthquake, which struck off the coast of the Central American nation.

• NEWS STORY: MAY 27, 2009ACT Alliance: Giant global aid body to be created

  Church-based emergency and development organisations are about to create one of the world’s biggest networks.

• NEWS STORY: MAY 27, 2009Gaza strip: Trauma therapy brings life back to children

  These activities, supported by ACT member DanChurchAid (DCA), are being carried out in twelve schools for about 6,000 students.

• SITUATION REPORT: MAY 25, 2009Pakistan: ACT mobilises response for displaced persons

  Members of ACT International report increasing needs among vulnerable populations including a lack of shelter, food, medicine, non-food items, water, sanitation and hygiene, and clothing.

• NEWS STORY: MAY 22, 2009Sri Lanka: $2.7m appeal for 265,000 homeless in crisis

  New IDPs from the combat zone have been without adequate food, clothing and hygiene. They are often injured and distressed by their experiences and by the separation of their family members.

• SITUATION REPORT: MAY 14, 2009Sri Lanka: Update on ACT assistance to conflict IDPs

  The ACT Coordinating Office expects to issue a revised appeal by the beginning of next week to include further proposed crisis assistance by ACT members the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka and Lutheran World Relief.

• FEATURE STORY: MAY 13, 2009Eyewitness in Sri Lanka

  Having been displaced in Mullaithivu 19 times, a young family with a one-and-a-half year old child finally arrived in Vavuniya on the 23rd of April. They now live under a tree. There are many families with her awaiting accommodation.

• NEWS STORY: MAY 12, 2009Sri Lanka: The children look like skeletons

  These are the words from one ACT health worker who recently visited one of the camps for displaced people in the north of the island. “I haven’t seen such extreme malnutrition before”, he says.

• NEWS STORY: MAY 11, 2009Rebel attacks: ACT evacuates aid workers in Chad

  ACT International member Lutheran World Federation has evacuated most of its humanitarian staff in a number of towns after the rebel group Union of Resistance Forces (UFR) has attacked the area.

• NEWS STORY: APRIL 30, 2009ACT International to unify with development network

  The new coalition, to be named the ACT Alliance, hopes to bring together close to 150 churches, agencies and other faith-based organisations with a combined budget of more than US$1.5 billion.

• NEWS STORY: APRIL 27, 2009Darfur in crisis: ACT continues, now one of the largest responses

  The joint ACT International and Caritas Internationalis response is expanding its services for displaced and vulnerable people in Darfur.

• NEWS STORY: APRIL 24, 2009Sri Lanka: Churches demand release of ACT human rights worker

  The general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia of The WCC has urged the government of Sri Lanka to immediately release Santha Fernando, the executive secretary of the Justice and Peace Commission NCCSL.

• NEWS STORY: APRIL 24, 2009Sri Lankan civilians out of war zone – need assistance

  ACT International has issued an appeal for over one million US dollars to assist traumatized, displaced civilians being moved into government transit camps and hospitals.

• NEWS STORY: APRIL 20, 2009ACT mobilises response to Afghan earthquake

  ACT mobilises urgent assistance to homeless earthquake survivors in worst affected areas of Sherzad district of Nangarhar Province.

• NEWS STORY: APRIL 15, 2009Bangladesh:

  “Please make me a member, give me a loan; I will pay it back at any cost,” says Salma Begum, recalling her plea eight years ago to join a micro-credit group in her village.

• NEWS STORY: APRIL 2, 2009ACT justice and peace worker in Sri Lanka arrested

  The executive secretary for justice and peace in the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka has been arrested by a government terrorism investigation unit.

• NEWS STORY: MARCH 24, 2009Afghanistan: Millions facing food shortages, possible starvation

  "In Afghanistan, the heroin trade, suicide bombings and the ‘war on terror’ has put the humanitarian agenda on the sidelines," reports an ACT aid worker.

• NEWS STORY: MARCH 20, 2009Gaza: Response continues despite restricted access

  As violent exchanges continue despite the ceasefire, ACT members continue to respond to the significant needs inside the cut-off and conflict-torn territory.

• SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 17, 2009Sri Lanka: ACT alliance assistance to conflict IDPs

  With the greatest concern being for civilians still trapped in the war zone, ACT members continue to provide assistance to IDPs.

• NEWS STORY: MARCH 4, 2009Calm is needed in Sudan following arrest warrant

  "I call upon the government and leading political parties to maintain a sober mind in light of the arrest warrant issued this afternoon," added Mr Nduna.

• FEATURE STORY: MARCH 4, 2009Tackling gender landmines in eastern Chad, an aid worker profile

  "We are dealing with human beings… people who need to live with dignity and respect," says Esther Isaac, an aid worker who knows herself what it means to be displaced.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 23, 2009Zimbabwe: Water rehabilitation projects fight cholera

  The cholera crisis continues as ACT members report that already vulnerable communities are at even greater risk with a lack of clean water.

• FEATURE STORY: FEBRUARY 17, 2009ACT photo exhibition: The smiling, caring Congo

  ACT International is showing a photo exhibition in Geneva, called “NOT FORGOTTEN”, exposing the positive sides to life in the eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• FEATURE STORY: FEBRUARY 10, 2009Gaza hospital under fire

  Life is slowly returning to what passes as normal in a health facility where, because of Israel’s blockade of the strip, supplies are always short.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 30, 2009Gaza: Bombed clinic to rise from the rubble

  The clinic was destroyed after people living in the flat above received a telephone warning from the Israelis to vacate the premises. A missile strike followed 15 minutes later.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 30, 2009Gaza response continue despite access challenges

  Aid organisations continue to experience significant difficulty in sending staff and additional supplies into the area to support emergency relief work and begin recovery operations.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 30, 2009Sri Lanka: Growing concern for trapped civilians, ACT mobilises response

  With the humanitarian situation worsening, there is great concern for civilians caught in an intensification of hostilities between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 27, 2009Gaza: "People still look at the sky", report ACT medical workers

  ACT International is working to coordinate both national and international psychosocial assistance in Gaza to ensure effective and appropriate care for those most traumatised by the war.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 23, 2009After Nkunda arrest, DRC situation calm but tense

  Rwandan soldiers arrested Mr Nkunda in Rwanda just days after other Rwandan troops crossed the border into the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 20, 2009Gaza: Should Israel pay compensation for destroyed clinics?

  ACT members had four clinics bombed by Israeli air strikes. Three of them were mobile clinics, built into small trucks, funded by DanChurchAid.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 19, 2009Gaza: Food distribution between skeleton houses

  No bombs are falling over Gaza today and aid workers are now working hard to distribute food and medicine to the affected population living in the aftermath of 22 days of war.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 18, 2009Gaza blockade must be lifted

  The silence from the guns has little meaning if the blockade continues.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 16, 2009ACT starts risky food distribution in Gaza

  On Monday distribution of food and water, medicines and blankets will start. ACT will cooperate with local organizations and foundations to carry out the dangerous distribution.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 15, 2009Appeal for 4 mill. US dollars, urgent for Gaza

  The money will be used for food supplements, medicines, medical supplies and equipment, cash for food and cash for work, and psychosocial assistance.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 15, 2009Appeal for 4 million US dollars, urgent for Gaza

  The money will be used for food supplements, medicines, medical supplies and equipment, cash for food and cash for work, and psychosocial assistance.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 15, 2009Gaza hospitals in horror: Burns from phosphorus bombs

  An overwhelming number of patients are suffering from severe burns as a result of the use of white phosphorous bombs by the Israeli army.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 14, 2009Much-needed aid reaches Gazans

  An initial three truckloads of ACT-supported food, milk and medical supplies have now reached Gazans in desperate need of assistance.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 13, 2009Gaza: Food and medicine on way

  Three truck loads of food, medicine and blankets from ACT International passed the border of Gaza Tuesday evening. From tomorrow, UN will be streamlining all aid delivery in the Gaza Strip.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 13, 2009Gaza: Teenager died from fear

  The heartbreaking story is told by her aunt, Suhaila Tarazi, who is the director of Al Ahli hospital in Gaza.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 12, 2009Gaza: The poorest lost their only heath care

  The ACT International hospital in the densely populated Shijaiya in Gaza was reduced to rubble Saturday, when the building was hit by an Israeli missile.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 11, 2009Gaza clinic destroyed by Israeli missile

  "The clinic is completely destroyed with all its equipment and medical supplies," reports Zack Sabella from the council’s Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees.

• SITUATION REPORT: JANUARY 9, 2009Gaza situation report

  The devastation and damage in Gaza resulting from the ongoing Israeli military activities is increasing, reports ACT member Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees.

• SITUATION REPORT: JANUARY 8, 2009Gaza situation report

  The situation in Gaza remains difficult and dangerous

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 7, 2009Food, medicines, blankets and trauma therapists headed for Gaza

  The need for emergency psychosocial care within the war-torn area is overwhelming.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 6, 2009Gaza: Israel bombs three mobile clinics

  The three clinics were built inside small trucks and equipped to function as mobile health facilities in Gaza.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 5, 2009Many injured civilians inaccessible, says Gaza hospital director

  Civilians injured by bombings are stuck in their homes without food and water and are unable to seek medical attention.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 2, 2009Eyewitnesses in Gaza: “They kill our children at home”

  People have to stay in their homes, more or less exposed to the bombing, just hoping to stay alive.