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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