6000 Safe Stoves for Darfur Refugee Mothers

Dear donors and friends,

On behalf of Darfur Women Network (DWN) and 29,000 survivors of Darfur genocide who are living in the refugees’ camp in Chad, I would like to thank you for your generosity that protect 202 women and girls from rape and other risks and generate income for 50 refugee families in the camp. Today, we to call upon you to support the refugee women to transfer themselves from dependency to self-sufficiency while they are produce safe stoves to protect their sisters in the camp. We call on you because we believe that you are:

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

 Through our report on December 1^st ,  we share with you safe stoves making process by our production groups in their camps. It was beginning with mixing of ingredients to make dough, building stoves and shaping it, and opening of two windows, the bigger one for firewood, and the smaller window for air. The 7000 Safe Stoves project designed to empower refugees with skills training in Income Generation Activities to enable them to become self-sufficient both in the camp and upon return to their home country.

Let us walk together through the impact of your contributions make on 202 refugee families, one impact during each report:

There are four main impacts:

1. Giving away safe stoves for no cost
2. Forest preservation
3. Economic empowerment and self-transformation
4. Capacity building

The first positive impact of “ Giving away safe stoves for no cost” on the survivors of genocide is about protecting women and girls, reducing physical assault and fatigue, decreasing health risk, and increase safely, 202 MOTHERS who received safe stoves with no cost by August 25, 2014, are now:

• Protecting women and girls: Protect them from rape and physical assault by reducing their frequency trips to the forest to collet firewood to 70%.
• Reducing physical assault and fatigue: Reduce the fatigue of walking long distance for big wood. Safe stove is efficient and consumes little amount of firewood and small branches.
• Decrease the health risks of 202 families who used to use traditional stoves that consume enormous amount of firewood and produce huge smoke during cooking process. are now living in healthy shelters
• Increasing safely:  Increase the safety by eradicating the danger of children and houses burn by replacing 202 traditional stoves that always cause burning.

Here are links to our project and to the video if you would like to watch  it again https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4Te4s8Otad8. Please visit the website below to donatehttp://goto.gg/14531

THANK YOU

Links:

• Process of making Safe Stoves