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Funding
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$6,396 (%)
As of Feb 06 02:57 2012
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Theme:
Environment
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Sponsor: MADRE
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Project duration: Ongoing
Project's area of focus: Human Rights, Women and Girls, Environment
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Women farmers grow and harvest the majority of food crops in Sudan by hand, backbreaking work made harder by frequent droughts and floods resulting from global climate change. Ongoing warfare, displacement and poverty have increased the need for already scarce food. Yet the government’s farm aid programs traditionally deny women access to credit and agricultural inputs, such as seeds, fertilizer and tools.
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Women Farmers Unite gives women the tools, resources and technical assistance they need to sustain their families for the long haul. Since recently purchasing a tractor, the farmers are now working to purchase an important attachment: a disc harrow. The disc harrow allows for deeper plowing, giving plants more access to underground water sources. This is an important adaptation now that climate change is causing more droughts in Sudan. |
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By consolidating resources and knowledge Women Farmers Unite will increase the productivity of small subsistence farm plots managed by women. As a result, women farmers will be able to increase food production, conserve natural resources and decrease malnutrition among women and children. With their new income, women will be able to invest in their communities and send their daughters to school. |
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MADRE members helped us buy this tractor. Thanks to you, more women will be able to feed their children this year and earn money for school fees, medicine and other basic needs.
- Fatima Ahmed, Director & Founder, Zenab for Women in Development
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Yifat Susskind,
121 West 27th Street
Suite 301
New York, NY 10001
United States
212-627-0444
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MADRE works in partnership with community-based women's organizations worldwide to address issues of health and reproductive rights, economic development, and other human rights. MADRE provides resources and training to enable our sister organizations to meet concrete needs in their communities and develop long-term solutions to the crises they face. MADRE addresses the negative impacts of US actions abroad and empowers people in the US to challenge and change destructive government policies.
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MADRE addresses the following issues within a human rights framework, recognizing that the enjoyment of any specific right-such as the right to food, education, or freedom from violence-depends on protecting the full spectrum of human rights: War, Recovery, and Building Peace; Women's Health and Sexual and Reproductive Rights; Trade, Aid, and Economic Justice; The Right to Food, Water, and Environmental Sustainability; and Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Resources.
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Support Women Farmers in Sudan
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Yifat Susskind,
Executive Director
Founded in 1983
Employees: 11
Volunteers: 500
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Fatima is a community leader from Sudan. In 2000, she founded Zenab for Women in Development in order to promote peace-building, women's rights, women's reproductive health and girl's education. Throughout her education she sought leadership roles and was often the only female involved in student governance. Her research background led her to focus on women farmers.
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