Jewish World Watch, in partnership with the Darfur Dream Team, is sponsoring the building, staffing and equipping of the Sudan Djedid (New Sudan) School in the Djabal refugee camp of Eastern Chad. The school will serve approximately 700 students, providing them with the skills, knowledge and hope they need to dream of a future outside the camps..

With the installation of inexpensive plastic sheeting and PVC pipes, women in refugee camps have turned their family bathing areas into reservoirs for grey-water collection. JWW has completed installation of the grey-water reclamation systems for the benefit of all families in the Iridmi refugee camp in Chad, and is nearing completion in the Touloum camp as well. Plans are now underway to begin installation of the systems in the Oure Cassoni camp!

Refugee women face assault and even rape when gathering firewood for cooking outside of the relative safety of their camps in Darfur and Chad. In order to reduce the incidence of these attacks, JWW began a program to convert refugee camps in Chad to solar cooking. The JWW Solar Cooker Project provides the raw materials for the production of the solar cookers; women in the camp are paid to assemble the cookers and train each family in the camp in their use. Currently the project is functioning in three of the twelve refugee camps in Chad with plans to expand.

The Backpack Project was created so that hungry and frightened children in the Oure Cassoni refugee camp in Chad could attend schools run by our partner, the International Rescue Committee. Filled with shoes, books, school supplies, soap and toothpaste, the backpacks allow each child to make the most of school under the most difficult of circumstances. Each backpack also contains something intangible, but essential to their well-being: hope.