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Haiti: State of the art education
Oct 06, 2011
High tech solutions mean safety for these students during an earthquake or hurricane
Ethiopia: setting up camp on hard soil
Aug 15, 2011
Officials must decide whether a new extension to Dollo Odo is needed, just weeks after a fourth camp there was opened
Dadaab: “It’s what makes you get up at 5am”
Jul 29, 2011
The relentness trail of new arrivals and the job of running a camp the size of a small city are what get Dadaab staff up before the sun.
Africa drought: Dadaab extension a safe haven for Somalis
Jul 25, 2011
Workers rush to survey land, clear bush and plot boundaries at the Dadaab camp extension, considered a secure environment for refugees.
Libya-Tunisia border crisis
Mar 08, 2011
Images from the ACT assessment mission to the Libya-Tunisia border where tens of thousands are fleeing the conflict in Libya
ACT donates more food to displaced victims in Preah Vihear
Mar 08, 2011
ACT helps displaced people suffering from four days of fighting in early February between Cambodian and Thai troops around Preah Vihear temple
Sudan: Decades of petitioning led to victory
Feb 10, 2011
With the Sudanese voting 99 percent in favour of secession, ACT members and church leaders can look back on decades of work with a sense of real achievement
Colombia: with some of the 3 million displaced
Dec 04, 2010
ACT member LWF works with some of the more than three million people who have been forcibly displaced, helping them grow food to survive
Consultative meeting for Sudan
Aug 09, 2010
ACT Alliance Consultative meeting for Sudan held in Juba Sudan on the 6th and 7th July 2010. At the Oasis Camp conference Hall
Haiti: seeding recovery in the countryside
May 21, 2010
Distributing seeds today ensures food in the coming months
At a glance
- Formed in 1947
- Based in Switzerland
- Working in more than 80 countries
- Budget of $101,986,000
- 6000 members of staff