Farchana Refugee Camp

In late 2011, Jewish World Watch began a solar cooking project in the Farchana Refugee Camp in collaboration with the UK NGO CORD in Chad. This project will bring CooKits to the refugees there.
==Recent news and developments==
*December 2012: Jewish World Watch, originator of the Solar Cooker Project for Sudanese refugees, reviews their current programs at several of the refugee camps in Chad – As a result of a joint security force between Chad and Sudan, violence against women has declined some since the project began seven years ago. Cord, their partner at the Farchana refugee camp, sees solar cooking as a way to keep girls in school, and not spending hours finding fuelwood for cooking. For others, the project has meant help for the environment and the air quality conditions for women previously using open fires. When the Jewish World Watch contingent first visited the camps many years ago, the refugees had just arrived and the encampment was meant to be temporary. The hope and expectation was that within a few months or a couple of years at most; they would return to their homes. But now, seven years later, it is clear that returning to Darfur is not a reality and the camps are turning into permanent settlements. As a result, the programs for the refugees must begin to move away from survival resources and begin to address ways of achieving self-sufficiency and permanence. In other words, helping to create a life, not an existence. Future larger scale solutions will be needed to address and benefit the surrounding communities, as well as the refugee camps, to help with the integration of the Sudanese residents. Read more...
==Articles in the media==
*December 2012: Forward With Intention: Solar Cooker Project - Huffington Post
==See also==
*Jewish World Watch
*Cord
*Refugee camps
*Chad
*Iridimi Refugee Camp
*Touloum Refugee Camp
*Gaga Refugee Camp
*Oure Cassoni Refugee Camp
==External links==
*The ‘Cookit’ creates a stir in Chad - CORD
==Contact==
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