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Darfur Peace & Development is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization with headquarters in Washington, DC and offices in Khartoum and El Fasher Sudan. DPDO works to foster reconciliation, to facilitate just governance and to enable Darfurians to rebuild their homeland in effective, sustainable ways. DPDO also promotes awareness of the crisis in the United States.
The Darfur Women’s Centers: Rebuilding lives one basket at a time...
When you buy a basket made by a displaced woman, you do so much more than just buy a product. You enable a woman to be self-sufficient. You help educate her. You empower her. When you empower a woman, you change the world. So if you want to change the world, buy a DPDO basket. Paulette Cooper
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COME TO THE MARKETS! DPDO is selling baskets this summer at local DC-area farmers markets. Market Schedule
DPDO News
Kassab Women’s Center renovation nearly complete
August 9th, 2010Rehabilitation of the permanent Kassab Women’s Center facility is nearly complete. The new facility has ample classroom and work spaces, a new roof, and an improved water storage system.
Production of baskets at both Women’s Centers is at an all-time high, and the weavers need your support to keep this income-generation program going. For information on purchasing baskets, please visit one of our retailers
July Solar Cooker Training Workshop in Abu Shouk
August 9th, 2010Jonathan Gration, son of Special Envoy to Sudan Gen. Scott Gration, raised funds to purchase solar cookers for a solar cooker training workshop last week in Abu Shouk IDP camp…
DPDO receives $150,000 donation from AUFA
August 9th, 2010DPDO received a donation of $150,000 from Ante Up for Africa, an organization dedicated to raising money for Africans in need. DPDO will earmark $75,000 for construction of Gangy High School in El Fasher and $75,000 for the Women’s Centers in Kassab and Abu Shouk IDP camps…
Recent News
Darfur aid worker released: Reuters
August 30th, 2010August 30, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – Reuters are reporting that a U.S. aid worker who was kidnapped while working for Samaritan’s Purse in Darfur over 100 days ago was released on Monday morning.
“She has been released this morning. She is in good health. Right now she is in the Wali’s (governor’s) residence in Nyala,” Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman Moawia Osman told Reuters.
Sudan must not force Kalma residents to resettle in new camps – UN
August 24th, 2010August 23, 2010 (NEW YORK) — U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said Monday the Sudanese authorities must not forcibly move the resident of Kalma in South Darfur into two new camps.
South Darfur deputy governor Abdel Karim Mousa Abdel Karim, said on Saturday his government is working to relocate the residents of Kalma in two camps with a capacity of 25 to 30 thousand people, equipped with all basic services.
South Darfur state to relocate Kalma residents in two camps
August 23rd, 2010August 21, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — South Darfur state unveiled today plans to relocate the residents of the troubled Kalma camps into two areas near the state capital Nyala.
Following a bloody attack last month against Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) supporting the Doha peace process in the camp by armed group, the Sudanese authorities accused supporters of the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur of being behind the violence.
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