Danish Refugee Council (DRC) (Danish: Dansk Flygtningehjælp) is a private Danishhumanitariannonprofit organization, founded in 1956. It serves as an umbrella organization for 33 member organizations.
Today the Danish Refugee Council works in more than 40 countries around the world, with humanitarian programs in conflict zones such as Somalia in the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan in Central Asia, Iraq in the Middle East and Chechnya in the Caucasus.
The Danish Refugee Council is one of the key humanitarian actors in Syria and its neighboring countries, as more than 500,000 persons receive emergency relief from DRC each month in the region. The situation in and around Syria is the largest humanitarian crisis the world is facing and 30% of the population have left their homes as a consequence of the violence. In Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, DRC distributes relief aid in the form of mattresses, clothes, blankets and hygiene kits, gives educational assistance in terms of remedial classes and classes for the dropped out students, and rehabilitates shelters. Inside Syria, DRC helps displaced and conflict-affected Syrians in Homs, Daraa, Hama, Aleppo and Damascus.
The international DRC activities aims to protect refugees and internally displaced persons, and to promote long term solutions. DRC assistance in acute refugee crises remains focused on responses to long-term effects.
The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing activities within nine sectors, namely: Housing and small-scale infrastructure, Income generation through grant and micro-finance, Food security & agricultural rehabilitation and development, Displacement-related law and information, Social rehabilitation, NGO networking and capacity development, Humanitarian mine action, Information management and coordination and Emergency logistics and transport management.
In September 2013, DRC opened a new representation office in Geneva.
In 2017, the Danish government donated DKK 2.5 million to the Danish Refugee Council for them to work together with IBM to develop a model that would track and possibly predict refugee and migrant flows, thereby improving humanitarian response planning.[2] It is currently running its humanitarian campaign in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.[3]
In June 2023, while the war was ongoing, DCR organised demining in Ukraine, in areas the Russian military had left.[4]
^Ukraine – die Minenräumerinnen (German: Women demining in Ukraine) Weltjournal, orf.at, 21 June 2023, accessed 22 June 2023 – documentation video 33.51 min, see 5:30, 6:32.
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