From August 24 through December 17, 2021, we have received $3,201.85 in donations from you via our GlobalGiving webpage, minus GlobalGiving's processing fees. For our September 19, 2021 aid distribution, we spent $2,625 of that.
The September 19 effort was our fifth aid distribution in Darfur. To prepare, we visited with internally displaced person camp leaders, considered what the residents most wanted from us, and set up a schedule and list of beneficiaries. We then returned to give out tarpaulins to 161 displaced families in those camps in the El Geneina area. So, thanks to you, in this manner we have provided tarpaulins, sleeping mats, cash, shoes, clothes and / or blankets to 920 families and 1,234 individual displaced persons in Darfur since June 2020!
To monitor the efficacy of this work, and to learn what displaced persons still need from us, our personnel in El Geneina do follow-up visits with and receive phone calls from displaced community leaders with whom we have worked and also the beneficiaries themselves. So far, response to our work has been very positive. As always, all of our board, membership and our Darfur-based staff are from West Darfur, so we are best able to maintain a rapport with those we seek to help there.
Apologies must be made for an error in our August 23, 2021 report to you. We had not at that time filed paperwork with the Sudanese government yet, but had instead consulted with another aid organization, who talked to the Sudan Government's registration office in El Geneina to find out more for us. From this we received a list of what is required to register as a charity there, and we are now preparing an application. In the meantime, since aid is in such great demand among the many thousands of displaced persons, our work has been welcomed by the local authorities.
As some of you may already know, West Darfur State has become less secure in the last few months, with the Kereneik area suffering still more conflict along with many other places (we have given aid to displaced persons from Kereneik a few times now). Our board has been monitoring the situation in and considering plans for the greater Kereneik and Jebel Moon areas. The following excerpt from page four of the December 16 Sudan Situation Report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (1) describes the situation in those places:
"Inter-communal clashes between nomads and farmers from the Misseriya Jebel tribe in Khazan-kujuk village (20km east of
Sileia) in West Darfur’s Jebel Moon locality escalated on 20 November. According to the data collected during the inter-
agency assessment that took place between 29 November and 2 December, 9,100 people (1,994 households) were
displaced to Hijeilija and Selea villages in Jebel Moon locality, as well as Werywery village in Kulbus locality, Worof village in
Sirba locality and Saraf Omra in North Darfur. In addition, UNHCR reported that about 2,300 people crossed to Chad intofive
border villages, as of 30 November. These numbers may change as there were reports of fighting on 6 and 7 December.
Community leaders of Misseriya Jabal and Arab tribes recently signed a cessation of hostilities agreement in Ag Geneina
travelled to Jebel Moon locality on 13 December to communicate peace messages to their communities in these areas.
Since 12 December, the road to Sirba and Jebel Moon has opened, and the commercial trucks are moving from Ag Geneina
to Jebel Moon.
"Up to 58,000 people affected in Kereneik locality and thousands displaced to different sites around the Kereneik town,
following inter-communal clashes in several areas, according to IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) [IOM = International Organization for Migration-PN]. Clashes in
Kereneik locality erupted on 4 December over a property dispute at a local market involving nomads and members of a
Masalit tribe. The security situation across Kereneik locality remains volatile and unpredictable. At least 47 people were
killed and 45 people injured during these conflicts. Priority needs included food, and NFIs [Non Food Items-PN] and emergency shelter, according
to IOM."
Aid partners are waiting for security to stabilize before taking further action in these places (ibid, p.5). A detailed UN map of West Darfur, showing Jebel Moon, Kereneik and El Geneina, is available here: https://reliefweb.int/map/sudan/sudan-west-darfur-state-administrative-map-september-2012
Reference:
1) https://reports.unocha.org/en/country/sudan
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This Doroti Organization team then met with shelter committees and displaced community members in ten gathering sites. Here the community leaders said that clothing and shoes were the top needed items, and that women over sixty were the ones who needed them most. So we distributed clothing and shoes to 204 women in ten gathering sites on March 1 in the presence of the heads of these sites and base committees.
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The displaced of Kerending internally displaced person camp outside of El Geneina and also the displaced from the city of Misterei, West Darfur State, Sudan are still in need of aid, so our project to help people from both groups continues. Mohamed Abdulrahman, our Treasurer, is on-site. His attempt to consult with the displaced from the city of Misterei earelier this month had to be postponed due to security concerns. So his new schedule for January is to consult first with the displaced of the Kerending camps, then with those from the city of Misterei.
After learning what these communities most want from us, the Board will conduct a fundraiser amongst our members via our GlobalGiving page and other online platforms. Then, as we did last June, we will buy the goods requested in El Geneina (or within Darfur or at least Sudan if at all possible). All donations given to us through our GlobalGiving page will be used for this effort.
Mr. Abdulrahman will remain in the area of concern until late February, 2021.
Fundraising update:
From May 1 through November 30, 2020 we raised $1477 on our GlobalGiving page for this project, for which GlobalGiving gave us $1392.45 after subtracting their fee. We also raised $287.49 via donations made to our original website. So we now have $1679.94 in hand for this project!
And for December 1 through December 28, 2020, we have raised another $155 on our GlobalGiving page for this project (it will be disbursed to us minus GG's fee in late January).
As some of you know, all of our Board and membership are of the Darfuri diaspora in the United States, with many from the El Geneina area of Sudan. So our organization has a personal connection to the area of concern and is best able to establish relationships with the displaced communities in and around that city.
But the situation in Darfur is still very dangerous. Over 50,000 people were newly displaced in Darfur between September 1 to November 23, 2020, according to UNAMID, the African Union - United Nations hybrid peacekeeping force due to leave the region next year (1).
The Doroti Organization for Humanitarian Services, Incorporated is a 501 (c) (3) Public Charity based in the United States. Our Federal Tax ID is 90-0644826. Please consult with your tax advisor to learn if your donations to us are tax deductible.
1) "UNAMID reports human rights violations in Darfur," Radio Dabanga, December 9, 2020: https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/unamid-reports-human-rights-violations-in-darfur
In response to the massive displacement of civilians from Kerending IDP camps and surrounding villages and parts of El Geneina in West Darfur State, Sudan in late December, 2019, the Doroti Organization set up a fundraiser on GlobalGiving (Project 44449) a few days later. For the months of fundraising from January through May, 2020, GlobalGiving disbursed a total of $640.73 to us to provide blankets and tarpualins for as many of these displaced as we could.
With three of our members over in El Geneina, including our President, Khamis Youssef, consulting closely with Sheikhs and Resistance Committee members in the area of concern, in mid-May we were able to get a plan approved by them for the distribution of mattresses and tarpaulins to 151 families and an additional thirty individuals in Kerending Internally Dislplaced Persons Camp (over 750 people). The $640.73 we raised on GlobalGiving was added to an additional $2,200 raised outsite that platform to fund this work.
Please see the attached pictures of our members giving out aid your donations helped us buy at local markets in El Geneina! And pictures of displaced persons from Misterei also in bad need of aid!
On July 25, 2020, the city of Misterei, West Darfur State, Sudan was attacked, displacing many thousands of people. So we enlarged our project to include those persons shortly afterward, changing its title to "Urgently Needed Aid for Misterei City, West Darfur."
For fundraising for the months of June and July, GlobalGiving has distributed $149.90 to us. In August we raised $195, which GlobalGiving will disburse to us late the following month minus their fee, as we have agreed. GlobalGiving has told us what we need to do in order for money raised to be given to us in a few days instead of waiting several weeks. We are considering how best to explain these instructons to our donors.
This distribution of goods is the most significant project we have done so far. We are deeply grateful for the contributions of all of our donors, and to our members who flew over to El Geneina, West Darfur State, Sudan and remained there for months to make sure everything went according to plan, keeping in close touch with our Board here in the US and also with local leaders among the displaced themselves. So to them and all of you, thank you!
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