Women's and Child's Rights,Protection &Empowerment

Hello our donors and our friends,

Greetings,

Darfur Women Network (DWN) is grateful for your generous donation which helped us to empower the survivors of genocide in Darfur, women from displaced, vulnerable, and poor families in displaced camps and within the Nyala city, south Darfur, Sudan.

 I, Mastora Bakhiet, went to south Darfur on May 10, 2021, due to a family member’s passing. My family lives in West Nyala, near the valley where a great population of displaced people cross. During my time in Nyala, I witnessed many women and children walking long distances from their camps towards the city. As they passed, they would knock on doors looking for housework to earn some money to survive.

 I talked to some of them, some girls said to me, “We are looking for work to get money to purchase school supplies and other school needs.” Some children who were forced to drop out of school to work to exposed themselves to exploitation, abuse, harassment, and sexual assault.

 Here are the following positive impacts of your donations:

• On February 3^rd, 2022, we trained 27 new women from displaced, vulnerable, and poor families to gain technical skills and knowledge to make high quality liquid and bar soap and detergent.
• DWN purchased raw materials enough for four months of training and operation and shipped it from Khartoum to the Darfur Women Network Center, about 800 miles away.
• We provide marketing support, such as securing professional designed labels to encourage people to purchase our products to enable mothers to earn steady income to eradicate child laborers and resend the dropouts back to schools.

We still facing the following challenges: marketing knowledge and skills, transportation, communication, high costs of raw materials, and package and cost logistics.

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Thank you for your generous donation and taking opportunities to participate and help women and girls improve their lives. We appreciate your investing in DWN work.

Your donation helped us to achieve the following:

• Registered Darfur Women Network as non-profit organization in Sudan and opened two Offices, one in Sudan and another one in Darfur.
• Established Control on ground with people of same culture and trustworthy.
• Secured Women Centre/workplace in Nyala, South Darfur state. The centre is made of Shelter built from local materials like fabric, and bricks.
• Trained women from displaced, vulnerable, and poor families on liquid and bar soap and detergent to secure their steady income.
• Recruited passionate volunteers on different positions such as Executive director, Logistics manager, public relation, National Director from Khartoum office along with dedicated volunteers are present on the ground.

Women and children make up most of the population in the camps and they are unable to meet their basic living needs.  Lack of social services coupled with the absence of critical infrastructure for drinking water and sanitation expose these vulnerable communities to numerous challenges, life-threatening situations, including malnutrition and diseases. 

DWN have Built connections with participants, Government and other organisations working on development.

Most of these communities have been suffering from severe trauma as they witnessed horrific atrocities inflicted on their families, while watching their villages, water resources, livestock and farms get completely destroyed.  They continue to face protection risks, especially women and girls who are constantly threatened by harassment and crimes of sexual violence.  As well as the children who forced to drop out schools to work to expose themselves to exploitation, abuse, harassment, sexual assault, and violence against children. The DWN focuses on providing  technical support, workplace, raw materials, and management as well as marketing to enable mothers to secure steady income to eradicate child laborers and resend the dropouts back to schools.

DWN was able to train displaced women on liquid, detergent, and bar soap. They gained technical knowledge and skills to make high quality soap to secure their steady income to improve their livelihood. The DWN has provided these women with program incubating by securing production materials, workplace, technical support, and marketing to its participants.

The DWN focuses on education for dropouts’ children who are laborers, now.

Eventually, the economic is crisis due to conflicts and insecurity situation outside the city which prohibited agricultural activities. Therefore, we need your support to secure stipend to encourage our volunteers to stay on their positions.      

The Darfur Women Network invites you to donate to displaced, vulnerable women and their children. We consider this as an opportunity to harness the generosity of people around the world to bring about real change in your community. Here is our link:

Links:

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