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Elderly people who under normal circumstances manage their life very well by themselves can be hit hard by natural disasters and suddenly need support. Like 74 year-old Ruth Hekneno who [...]

What does the project “Gaza Tech Women Lead” supported by ACT-members Dan Church Aid and Norwegian Church Aid in Gaza mean for young, well-educated women like Sara Al Massri? There [...]

The Anglican Church of Melanesia – a partner of ACT member Anglican Board of Missions (ABM) – ran a series of disaster resilience workshops on Savo Island which is a [...]

The population of Jordan’s second biggest city Zarqa has doubled within the past six years due to immigration from neighboring Syria and Palestine. The Zarqa Community Centre is one of [...]

This article first appeared on ACT-member Felm’s website “My mother, father and grandfather were victims of the Haliya practice, working as bonded laborers in other people’s lands. Because of this, [...]

Kujok is a village in Northern Iraq, not far away from Mosul and from the Syrian border. Mohammed Yousif is the first person who returned from a camp in a [...]

CBPS: Module 3 is the newest learning module in a series of learning modules, developed by Act Church of Sweden to provide an introduction to Community-Based Psychosocial Support (CBPS). Building [...]

A new Website on Community-Based Psychosocial Support (CBPS) is now online. The CBPS Website can be reached through the following link: https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/act/cbps The site provides an overview about CBPS and [...]

On October 16, 2019, a very strong earthquake struck the Davao del Sur province in the south of the Mindanao island in the Philippines, displacing thousands of people. After months [...]

ACT’s joint programme for Myanmar’s Kayin State was warmly welcomed at its launch in 2016. The Director of the Kayin State Department of Social Welfare emphasized the need to support [...]