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Re: حوالي 50 ألف مواطن حضروا ندوة الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان بالخرطوم الأربعاء 6/4/2005 (Re: Murtada Gafar)
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Sudan (Darfur) North Sudan (Darfur) FPRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=Photo: Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps" Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps Overview Recent estimates of the total number of deaths from the conflict in Darfur are as high as 300,000 - with another 200,000 Sudanese having fled to Chad as refugees. More than 2.4 million people in the Darfur region of Northern Sudan are directly affected by continued fighting, homeless and vulnerable to hunger, weather and violence. In 2004, Mercy Corps’ Global Emergency Operations (GEO) team began operating in Darfur. In the past several months, Mercy Corps has established a vibrant program. The agency currently has three operational offices and over 70 committed staff who are striving to save lives and alleviate suffering by providing essential humanitarian assistance in the Zalingei corridor to approximately 90,000 internally displaced Sudanese. Mercy Corps is currently implementing activities to the areas of sanitation, distribution and protection. Programs in Focus Sanitation Mercy Corps is constructing hundreds of much-needed latrines in Zalingei camps while simultaneously conducting a grassroots hygiene and health education campaign through volunteers and community leaders. In addition, Mercy Corps is conducting other water and sanitation activities including animal waste removal and vector control inside the camps. Mercy Corps staff are working with residents to drain pools of standing water near drinking water sources to reduce mosquito breeding grounds, and are providing separate drinking troughs for animals to prevent them from defecating in areas where people stand to collect their drinking water. Volunteer Hygiene Promoters organize and disseminate important health promotion messages to residents in the camps, and work with residents to ensure that sanitation needs are being met. These efforts are targeted at preventing the spread of infectious diseases such as cholera and malaria, which currently account for about 15 percent of the mortalities in Darfur. Distribution Mercy Corps continues to provide essential non-food items such as blankets, cooking pots and utensils, soap, straw mats and mattresses. Approximately 10,000 hygiene kits, 16,000 blankets, 15,000 kitchen sets and floor mats have been distributed. Mosquito nets will be distributed prior to the rainy season, which begins mid-summer. Over 20,000 internally-displaced persons (IDPs) have benefited from the plastic sheeting that Mercy Corps distributed to ######### of households which they in turn use to cover their families’ temporary shelters. Protection One of Mercy Corps’ efforts in protection has been supporting the training of trainers to teach women how to build and utilize fuel efficient cooking stoves in the Zalingei camps. This project aims to reduce the amount of time that women spend beyond the camp perimeter gathering cooking fuel, as women are routinely attacked and raped while gathering wood outside of the camps. The project teaches women how to make stoves from locally-available materials. These stoves are around three times as efficient as traditional stoves, allowing users to cook for three weeks with the amount of fuel that a traditional stove would use in one week. This low input, high impact project addresses several of the key issues of the crisis in Darfur. Children’s Psychosocial Program In March 2005, Mercy Corps began implementing a project with the goal of improving the psychosocial well-being of children, youth and vulnerable women in two IDP camps where Mercy Corps is currently providing critical assistance. The privately-funded project will engage women living in these camps to share their skills and crafts with vulnerable youth through one-on-one mentoring programs. Other major activities will focus on building the capacity of community leaders to recognize and facilitate recreational and social activities, and provide each block of both camps with safe spaces to host these activities and grounds designated for youth sports activities. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps Overview Recent estimates of the total number of deaths from the conflict in Darfur are as high as 300,000 - with another 200,000 Sudanese having fled to Chad as refugees. More than 2.4 million people in the Darfur region of Northern Sudan are directly affected by continued fighting, homeless and vulnerable to hunger, weather and violence. In 2004, Mercy Corps’ Global Emergency Operations (GEO) team began operating in Darfur. In the past several months, Mercy Corps has established a vibrant program. The agency currently has three operational offices and over 70 committed staff who are striving to save lives and alleviate suffering by providing essential humanitarian assistance in the Zalingei corridor to approximately 90,000 internally displaced Sudanese. Mercy Corps is currently implementing activities to the areas of sanitation, distribution and protection. Programs in Focus Sanitation Mercy Corps is constructing hundreds of much-needed latrines in Zalingei camps while simultaneously conducting a grassroots hygiene and health education campaign through volunteers and community leaders. In addition, Mercy Corps is conducting other water and sanitation activities including animal waste removal and vector control inside the camps. Mercy Corps staff are working with residents to drain pools of standing water near drinking water sources to reduce mosquito breeding grounds, and are providing separate drinking troughs for animals to prevent them from defecating in areas where people stand to collect their drinking water. Volunteer Hygiene Promoters organize and disseminate important health promotion messages to residents in the camps, and work with residents to ensure that sanitation needs are being met. These efforts are targeted at preventing the spread of infectious diseases such as cholera and malaria, which currently account for about 15 percent of the mortalities in Darfur. Distribution Mercy Corps continues to provide essential non-food items such as blankets, cooking pots and utensils, soap, straw mats and mattresses. Approximately 10,000 hygiene kits, 16,000 blankets, 15,000 kitchen sets and floor mats have been distributed. Mosquito nets will be distributed prior to the rainy season, which begins mid-summer. Over 20,000 internally-displaced persons (IDPs) have benefited from the plastic sheeting that Mercy Corps distributed to ######### of households which they in turn use to cover their families’ temporary shelters. Protection One of Mercy Corps’ efforts in protection has been supporting the training of trainers to teach women how to build and utilize fuel efficient cooking stoves in the Zalingei camps. This project aims to reduce the amount of time that women spend beyond the camp perimeter gathering cooking fuel, as women are routinely attacked and raped while gathering wood outside of the camps. The project teaches women how to make stoves from locally-available materials. These stoves are around three times as efficient as traditional stoves, allowing users to cook for three weeks with the amount of fuel that a traditional stove would use in one week. This low input, high impact project addresses several of the key issues of the crisis in Darfur. Children’s Psychosocial Program In March 2005, Mercy Corps began implementing a project with the goal of improving the psychosocial well-being of children, youth and vulnerable women in two IDP camps where Mercy Corps is currently providing critical assistance. The privately-funded project will engage women living in these camps to share their skills and crafts with vulnerable youth through one-on-one mentoring programs. Other major activities will focus on building the capacity of community leaders to recognize and facilitate recreational and social activities, and provide each block of both camps with safe spaces to host these activities and grounds designated for youth sports activities. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Never Again...Again
moneim
(عدل بواسطة عبد المنعم ابراهيم الحاج on 04-08-2005, 10:17 AM)
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