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Sudan: Unify and Empower Women in Crisis

Help situation of women in Darfur

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Sudan: Unify and Empower Women in Crisis

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Summary

Meeting the immediate needs of women and girls who are struggling to stay alive in refugee camps in Darfur, and organizing women farmers in Elgedarif to prevent further resource conflict in Sudan. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $893 was raised for this project.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Large humanitarian agencies have been evacuating Darfur over the last year, dramatically reducing aid. Conditions are horrific and worsening: women face a systematic campaign of gang rape; children fear for their lives; families lack basic necessities, like enclosed toilets. As in the rest of Africa, women carry the burden of agricultural production. However, women farmers are kept from organizing, and therefore, from the benefits of subsidy and credit programs available to male farmers.

Activities

1. Send Emergency Aid: school supplies; medicines; radios; shoes; etc. 2. Organize Women’s Farmers Union: women are unable to access credit or subsidies. 3. Education: raise awareness in US about the conflict in Sudan and the effect of US policies

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $893

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $893 . The original project funding goal was $42,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

MADRE’s decades-long experience has taught us that emergencies like this one will leave survivors in crisis for a long time. That’s why we’re supporting the efforts of women’s organizations to provide long-term solutions along with emergency relief.

Project Message

"It was a great experience to be able to share this emergency relief with women and children and elderly people and do something to make them happy."
- Fatima Ahmed, Founder and Director, Zenab

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Vivian Stromberg
Executive Director
121 West 27th Street, #301
New York, NY 10001
United States
212-627-0444
Email:

Project Sponsor

MADRE

Organization

MADRE, An International Women's Human Rights Org.
121 West 27th Street #301
New York, NY 10001
United States
212.627.0444
http://www.MADRE.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Sudan and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about Sudan, read the Human Development Report on Sudan or the Wikipedia entry for Sudan.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 11, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

First Women’s Farmers’ Union Has Been Created

By Vivian Stromberg - Executive Director, October 29, 2007 06:05 PM

Fatima Ahmed, an agricultural engineer and the president of MADRE’s Sudanese sister organization Zenab for Women in Development, recently reported the devastating conditions in which women farmers from Al Qadarif – eastern region - in Sudan work. MADRE and our Sudanese partner are confronting climate change and the lack of farming tools.

Most women farmers do not have the basic working tools that allow them to perform their job efficiently. As a result, they must spend an entire day just to work on a few square meters of their land. Tools to increase efficiency are available from the Department of Agriculture, but are only provided to farmers’ unions, which are only made up of men. Historically, women have not been allowed to create unions and consequently, they have no access to these benefits. With the support of MADRE and Zenab, the first women’s farmers’ union has been created. The women’s determination, together with trainings on farming techniques, human rights and women rights, and basic health workshops will make a palpable difference. MADRE is also providing ploughing animals.

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