Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: Human Rights, Women and Girls, Environment
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Women in Sudan are hit hardest by conflict and climate change, and by the drought and poverty that follow. Yet women grow and harvest the majority of food crops in Sudan. These women are small-scale organic farmers. In the western region of Darfur in Sudan, ongoing warfare has driven millions of people into refugee camps where they have become dependent on food aid. This year, Sudan’s government expelled the biggest global aid organizations from Darfur, intensifying the food shortage.
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Women farmers in eastern Sudan are buying larger quantities of organic seeds, hiring extra workers, renting land, farm equipment, storage space for grain and trucks to deliver their harvest to Darfur. |
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Women and families living in the refugee camps in Darfur will receive the food aid they desperately need. |
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“Ever since the women heard about the international aid agencies being forced out of Darfur, they wanted to do something to help. Now, MADRE has given them a way to feed hungry families in Darfur."
- Fatima Ahmed, Director & Founder, Zenab for Women in Development
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Irene Lew,
Development Assistant
121 West 27th Street
Suite 301
New York, NY 10001
United States
212-627-0444
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