By Mastora Bakhiet | Project Leader and CEO
7000 Safe Stoves for Darfur Refugee Mothers’ Project
Dear friends,
Our project, 7000 Safe Stoves for Darfur Refugee Mothers’ Project, aims to provide Darfur refugee families in Touloum Camp in Chad with safe stoves and cooking techniques as well as solar cookers in summer time to help the refugees in many ways such as: protecting women and girls from rape due to use of little amount of firewood with our safe stove; using solar cooker in summer with 99% protection from rape, reducing the smoke during the process of cooking, and increase the chance of safety inside the shelters.
Update: in June our staff will travel to the refugee camp to build the foundation of our projects in the camps with concentration on Safe Stoves Project that we will test its specification with relation to some important factors such as to be practical, culturally accepted, efficient, and convinced for the refugee women to adopt it without hesitation. The stove is needed now more than ever due to increasing of violence against women and girls who collect firewood from the forest and due to escalating of genocide activities in Darfur.
The staff and the refugees will start with small participatory group to create, test, and discuss the final result and recommendation to put the foundation of the project in place. This means that the work will be done with first group/team leaders are training to learn how to create stoves, using cooking techniques to make food in less time and use less wood.
You will be updated from the field by any available communication via our office in USA.
Feel free to check our Gifts for Good on our partner, Global Giving’s website to support your project(Safe stoves): athttp://goto.gg/14531, athttp://goto.gg/15358,and http://goto.gg/16829.
Please check our updated website www.darfurwomennetwork.org.
The Darfur Women Network, Inc. excited to invite you to support our one day campaign. It will start on June 24th, at 12:01 ET to June 25th. Microsoft will be matching donations 100%, and there will be $200,000 in matching funds available!
Support us at http://goto.gg/16829.
Thank You!
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