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Fund4Darfur
www.fund4darfur.org
Issues: Race; ethnicity & religion
, Politics
, Human & Civil Rights
, Global Issues
, Community issues
Where we work: National
Where we work: National
Fund4Darfur was established in December 2007 by the Aegis Trust, in collaboration with actress and campaigner Mia Farrow. It works to support survivors of the conflict in Darfur, through aid projects on the ground in Darfur and Chad, and through UK-based projects to help refugees who are living here with little or no support from the British government.
Our main focuses in the region are the education of children in refugee camps, to reduce the marginalisation they will inevitably face on their eventual return to a 'normal' life, and on the rehabilitation of raped women. We also support micro-finance projects in Darfur such as the construction of slow-burning stoves for women in camps, to minimise the number of journeys they make to collect firewood - journeys on which they are at enormous risk of rape and violent sexual attack.
In the UK we support Darfurian refugees with basic subsistence needs, with questions and solutions relating to legal aid, and by taking an active part in demonstrations and protests at the treatment of Darfuris in Darfur, Khartoum and the UK. This autumn we are hoping to launch an English language support program using students with English teaching qualifications and teaming them up with Darfuri refugees in desperate need of foundation English in order to make a living and life for themselves in the UK.
We also support campaigns by the Aegis Trust and Justice for Darfur coalition to bring the conflict to an end, and bring its perpetrators to justice. We campaign for full deployment of UN peace-keeping troops and helicopters to support them, and for a change in British Home Office policy that currently allows the deportation of Darfuris back to Khartoum where they face possible torture. We also support the 'Wanted for War Crimes' campaign to bring indicted war criminals Ali Kusheyb and Ahmed Haroun to justice at the International Criminal Court, removing them from their current state of impunity in government offices in Khartoum.
www.fund4darfur.org
www.aegistrust.org
www.wantedforwarcrimes.org
Our main focuses in the region are the education of children in refugee camps, to reduce the marginalisation they will inevitably face on their eventual return to a 'normal' life, and on the rehabilitation of raped women. We also support micro-finance projects in Darfur such as the construction of slow-burning stoves for women in camps, to minimise the number of journeys they make to collect firewood - journeys on which they are at enormous risk of rape and violent sexual attack.
In the UK we support Darfurian refugees with basic subsistence needs, with questions and solutions relating to legal aid, and by taking an active part in demonstrations and protests at the treatment of Darfuris in Darfur, Khartoum and the UK. This autumn we are hoping to launch an English language support program using students with English teaching qualifications and teaming them up with Darfuri refugees in desperate need of foundation English in order to make a living and life for themselves in the UK.
We also support campaigns by the Aegis Trust and Justice for Darfur coalition to bring the conflict to an end, and bring its perpetrators to justice. We campaign for full deployment of UN peace-keeping troops and helicopters to support them, and for a change in British Home Office policy that currently allows the deportation of Darfuris back to Khartoum where they face possible torture. We also support the 'Wanted for War Crimes' campaign to bring indicted war criminals Ali Kusheyb and Ahmed Haroun to justice at the International Criminal Court, removing them from their current state of impunity in government offices in Khartoum.
www.fund4darfur.org
www.aegistrust.org
www.wantedforwarcrimes.org
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