Worldwide, over 65 million people have been forced to leave their homes and the plight of refugees is present in nearly all our programme countries in one way or another. In 2017, FCA supported refugees and internally displaced populations in Syria, Uganda, CAR, South Sudan, Somalia, Jordan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Greece.<\/p>\n
Our peace work has been multifaceted both at home and in our programme countries. We collaborate not only with traditional and religious leaders but also with women and youth.<\/p>\n
Collective actions focusing on dialogue, mediation and local peace processes\u2019 support have generated concrete accomplishments, for example, in Somalia, CAR, South Sudan and Uganda. Our work has contributed to increasing peace and stability and reducing extremist activities that may undermine development progress and the realisation of human rights.<\/p>\n
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Developing the private sector to create jobs and livelihoods is a new and growing focus in FCA\u2019s work. Women\u2019s Bank has already been supporting female entrepreneurship for ten years. Its activity has expanded and has been further developed towards providing loans to small businesses.<\/p>\n
Sklilful and committed staff, experienced local partners and good collaboration with a number of local, national and global actors and networks have enabled our operations and the related results. We are grateful for the trust placed in our work by the general public and donors, and we promise to continue pursuing our efforts on behalf of human dignity.<\/p>\n
Jouni\u00a0Hemberg\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Executive Director Ensuring quality assistance where it is most needed 2017 was a good year for Finn Church Aid. Our programme grew by over seven million euros. Many of our operating contexts remained fragile and insecure, but we succeeded in supporting hundreds of thousands of people through humanitarian assistance and development work, while also building the local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":87632,"parent":116157,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/vuosikertomus.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_improvement_type_select":"improve_an_existing","_thumb_yes_seoaic":false,"_frame_yes_seoaic":false,"seoaic_generate_description":"","seoaic_improve_instructions_prompt":"","seoaic_rollback_content_improvement":"","seoaic_idea_thumbnail_generator":"","thumbnail_generated":false,"thumbnail_generate_prompt":"","seoaic_article_description":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87740","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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