Stories — ACT Alliance

Facing down ostracism, lepers live with dignity in Darfur

Feb 28, 2013

Stricken with a deforming disease, forced to flee bullets and their homes, ostracised even in a camp for displaced people, leprosy patients receive the support they need.

Innovative programme helps Syrian Armenians adjust to new life in ancestral home

Feb 27, 2013

Fleeing Syria to escape violence, thousands of Syrian Armenians have sought refuge in their ancestral home. A new voucher system enables them to buy essential items.

Ten years on, Darfuris still arriving at camps

Feb 26, 2013

Newly uprooted Darfuris continue to arrive in camps after shooting and violence drove them from their homes in recent weeks.

Faces of Darfur reveal realities of camp life

Feb 20, 2013

See the human impact of nutrition, water, medical and other programmes in the faces of Darfur civilians living in camps for the internally displaced.

As Syrian conflict mounts, refugee numbers likely to exceed UN estimates

Feb 19, 2013

As the bitter battle for Damascus intensifies and its impact increasingly spills across national borders, ACT Alliance expects that even more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees will seek safety in neighbouring countries before June 1 this year – thereby surpassing the latest UN estimates.

Peace efforts earn bishop top UN award

Feb 08, 2013

Bishop Emeritus Paride Taban has won a UN peace prize for his decades of work in South Sudan.

Philippines’ fishing communities seek sustainable solutions to chronic flooding

Feb 04, 2013

Tired of being victims to annual flood waters that inundate their houses, residents of several villages along the shore of the largest lake in the Philippines are organising to either stop the flooding or find viable alternatives for their families.

Deminer returns to site of accident in Libya

Feb 01, 2013

Just over a year ago, the mine clearance specialist Fred Pavey had his right hand blown off while attempting to neutralise a Chinese mine in Libya. Now he is returning to help finish the work he started.

International community must step up for Syrian civilians

Jan 30, 2013

With reports that a fresh wave of 21,000 Syrians had arrived in Jordan's Za’atari camp in the last week of January alone, the international community must pledge the funds needed to address this mounting crisis.

At-risk youth talk of violence and resilience in Rio slums

Jan 29, 2013

A community-based art programme is helping at-risk youth overcome socioeconomic obstacles in one of Rio's most violent slums.

Conflict in Mali threatens to deepen humanitarian crisis across Sahel

Jan 28, 2013

The conflict in Mali is creating a new wave of civilian displacement that is straining already scarce resources and deepening the humanitarian crisis in Mali and neighbouring countries.

Finns to develop religious peace mediation network

Jan 23, 2013

Finn Church Aid has long worked to promote peace. Now the ACT member has been appointed to develop a worldwide religious leaders' peace mediation network.

Syrian refugees welcomed to Lebanon amidst political tensions

Jan 21, 2013

Syrians continue to flee the incessant violence in their own country for safety across the border. Yet in neighbouring Lebanon, no formal refugee camps exist to assist them.

Syrians forge solidarity to survive harsh winter in Jordan

Jan 16, 2013

As Syria’s civil war drags on, those who have fled the violence for neighboring countries face an increasingly difficult time surviving as winter storms bring snow and freezing temperatures to much of the region.