Photo Credit: Refugees International/ Megan Fowler
07/13/2006

These women are part of the Baketa Organization for Women and Children – a local group that began in 1988 to help train women and girls in new skills. These women spend their time trying to help other women displaced from the Darfur conflict, by organizing computer courses and English classes for women in nearby Kalma camp. With funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the organization also bought 27 sewing machines and has taught hundreds of Darfurian women to sew clothing and other crafts that they can sell. This income reduces women’s exposure to attacks, as they can use the money to purchase firewood from a local market instead of collecting firewood outside the camp.