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  • It takes a village to build a well. Residents of the Khamsadegaig Camp for internally displaced persons look down a well they built with help from the Darfur Emergency Response Operation, a joint program of Caritas Internationalis and Action by Churches Together (ACT). The Catholic and Protestant aid networks have pooled their resources since 2004 in order to help some of the 2.5 million people displaced by violent conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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  • A woman puts on her toob in the wind in the Dereige Camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's Darfur region. Since 2003, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2,500,000 displaced by government-sanctioned violence against African farming communities in the region.
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  • A woman weeps as she tells how her village was attacked by government-aligned militias in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • A displaced mother and child in the Dereig camp outside Nyala.
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  • A boy arranges bread loaves in preparation for baking in the Um Labassa Camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's wartorn Darfur province. Since 2003, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2,500,000 displaced by government-sanctioned violence against African farming communities in the region.
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  • A girl living in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in Sudan's violence-plagued Darfur region. Since 2003, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2,500,000 displaced by government-sanctioned violence against African farming communities in the region.
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  • Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbors have harvested from outside a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • Farmah Adam Ibrahim (right) and Sit-Eldoma Atiya (back left) pray outside their hut in the Bilel Camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's war-torn Darfur province. Most of Darfur's residents are Muslims. A government sanctioned ethnic war has killed more than 400,000 people and left some 2.5 million displaced since 2003.
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  • Displaced boys peer through a fence around a feeding center for malnourished children in the Bilel camp near Nyala..
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  • An Arab nomad travels in the Darfur region of Sudan. Historic tensions between Arab nomads and African farmers have worsened in recent years after the government in Khartoum armed Arab militias in order to strengthen their counterinsurgency campaign against regional rebels.
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  • One of hundreds of burned villages in Sudan's Darfur region, the product of violence by government military forces and Arab militias against an insurgent force and the civilian population of the area.
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  • A woman grinds grain, part of daily life in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • Girls skip rope in front of their school in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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  • A woman in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • Khadilla Abdulah Ibrahim (right) and her daughter Hawaia plow a small plot on the edge of the camp where they live with hundreds of other displaced families, just outside Bilel. Families in this camp are assisted by ACT-Caritas with a variety of emergency services, including seeds and agricultural tools, schools and pre-schools for their children, and health care. The plow the women are using was provided by ACT-Caritas and is shared by several families.
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  • A man writes out portions of the Koran in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • The school director "encourages" students to get into their classroom on time in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
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  • Girls hurry to school in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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  • The height and weight of displaced children is carefully monitored at a nutrition and health center in the Um Labassa IDP Camp in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • A woman farms at the edge of a camp for internally displaced people outside Um Labassa in Sudan's Darfur region. Displaced persons can't venture very far from the IDP camps lest they be assaulted by bands of soldiers or Arab militias that await them.
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  • Prenatal care is an important part of the mission of a primary health care and nutrition center sponsored by ACT-Caritas in Um Labassa, Darfur.
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  • A boy at play in a camp for internally displaced people outside Um Labassa in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • A girl in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur, a war-torn region of Sudan.
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  • Women celebrate the everyday joys despite living in a camp for internally displaced people outside the village of Kubum, in Sudan's West Darfur state.
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  • Fatna bathes and dresses her son Mustafa in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • Children in a camp for internally displaced people outside Kubum. More than 2.2 million IDPs are living in camps like this in the Darfur region.
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  • Fatna brings home wood she collected outside a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where international agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • A boy in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur that has received families displaced by fighting between Arab communities.
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  • A woman obtains water from a faucet at a communal well in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
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  • A man studies the Koran at sunrise in the Khamsadegaig camp for internally displaced families, where victims of the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have taken refuge.
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  • A girl in the Dereig Camp for families internally displaced by Darfur's conflict.
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  • Women return from collecting firewood to the Kalma IDP Camp near Nyala in Sudan's Darfur region. Hundreds of women have been raped while collecting firewood outside the camps, and African Union troops have begun escorting "firewood patrols" to ensure the women's safety. NGOs have also helped the women contruct more efficient stoves, thus lessening the need for firewood.
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  • One of war's youngest victims--a baby in the Bilel camp for displaced persons.
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  • African Union troops from Nigeria on patrol in the town of Labado, which was attacked by government military forces and Arab militias in December 2004, causing the town's 25,000 people to flee for their lives.
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  • An Arab man, with his camel, listening to news on the radio. Many Arabs in Darfur have grown weary of the alliance with the government, and several Arab militia leaders have broken from the government.
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  • A displaced woman in Labado weeps as she tells the story of how the Janjaweed attacked her village. More than 2.5 million Darfur residents have been displaced since 2003 by a coalition of government forces and Arab militias..
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  • A boy displaced by violence in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • A girl displaced by violence in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • A boy in Labado, one of a handful of people who have returned to the Darfur town that was attacked in December 2004 by government planes and Arab militias, causing the 25,000 residents to flee. The leather pouches around his neck contains verses of the Koran.
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  • A newly arrived resident of a displaced camp outside the Darfur village of Garsila constructs a shelter for his family.
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  • An African woman waits for water in a camp for displaced persons in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • Displaced women in Zalingei, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, carry pots they have made to the market to sell.
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  • A woman returning to her camp for the displaced after fetching firewood. According to relief workers and human rights groups, hundreds of women have been raped and several killed while hunting outside IDP camps for firewood. The ACT-Caritas program in Darfur trains women to build stoves that require less wood, thus reducing the number of trips the women make to obtain fuel.
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  • Pausing from planting, Adel Dut, a woman displaced by conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, displays sorghum seeds given to her by the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Since 2003, the conflict in Darfur has killed some 400,000 people and displaced about 2.5 million.
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  • Women displaced by violence in Sudan's Darfur region put the finishing touches on a thatched roof, celebrating with song and dance as they go, in the Abu Jabra IDP Camp.
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  • A young woman and her donkey in a camp for families displaced in the Darfur region of Sudan by fighting between government forces, Arab militias, and rebel soldiers.
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  • A boy prepares the soil next to his family's home for planting in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • A family in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • Daily life in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • A girl skips rope in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • Displaced women weaving mats in a livelihood program  in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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  • A woman grinds grain in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • A malnourished child has his height and weight measured in a primary health care and nutrition center in Um Labassa, a camp for internally displaced people in Sudan's Darfur region. Since 2003, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2,500,000 displaced by government-sanctioned violence against African farming communities in the region.
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  • A woman sweeps the dirt around her home in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • Girls in class in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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  • Girls studying in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • The height and weight of displaced children is carefully monitored in 2007 at a nutrition and health center in Kubum, a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. Mothers with at-risk babies are given supplemental food. The clinic is sponsored by the ACT Alliance and Caritas Internationalis.
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  • A boy living in the Kubum Camp for internally displaced persons.
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  • A girl arrives at school in the morning in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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  • In a primary health care and nutrition center sponsored by ACT-Caritas in Um Labassa, Darfur, a mother gives her malnourished baby Plumpy'Nut, a nutrition supplement.
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  • At a nutrition center in Kubum sponsored by ACT-Caritas, an expectant mother walks home with a supplemental food package that will help her baby get a healthy start on life.
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  • Um Labassa is an Arab village in Darfur that is hosting a camp for internally displaced people. In addition to a variety of support for the IDP camp, ACT-Caritas provided several wells for the host community, including this one.
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  • A boy herds goats in a camp for internally displaced people outside Um Labassa in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • A girl in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur, the violence-torn western region of Sudan. War have plagued this region since 2003, when the Arab government responded to insurgent attacks by pushing proxy Arab militias to attack African farming villages. Some 400,000 people have died and more than 2.5 million displaced.
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  • A family in a camp for internally displaced people outside Um Labassa in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • Women carry water home from a well in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur where an ecumenical coalition has provided wells and a variety of other services. While the Darfur Emergency Response Operation is focused primarily on responding to the needs of Darfur's internally displaced people, most of them Africans, it also is helping Arab villages, many of them host communities for displaced camps, as a contribution toward reconciliation and peace. The Darfur Emergency Response Operation is a joint effort of Caritas Internationalis, the Rome-based network of Catholic aid agencies, and Action by Churches Together (ACT), the Geneva-based Protestant relief network. Since 2003, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2,500,000 displaced by government-sanctioned violence against African farming communities in the region.
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  • A girl in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur, a war-torn region of Sudan.
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  • Fatna cooks a meal for her family in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where international aid agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services. Since 2003, more than 2.5 million people have been displaced in Darfur, and some 400,000 have died in what many consider to be the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
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  • A mother and her daughter in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur where ACT-Caritas has provided wells and a variety of other services. While the ACT-Caritas Darfur Emergency Response Operation is focused primarily on responding to the needs of Darfur's internally displaced people, it also is helping Arab villages, many of them host communities, as a contribution toward reconciliation and peace.
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  • Musa Abdulrahim walks to his one day a week job as a butcher in the local market from his home in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • Fatna cooks a meal in her hut in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where humanitarian agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna lives in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where ACT-Caritas is providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna lives in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where ACT-Caritas is providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Inside her hut, Fatna cooks a meal for her family while cradling her smallest child in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • Fatna eats with her children in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where ACT-Caritas is providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna eats with her children in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • Children in camp for internally displaced people outside Kubum. More than 2.2 million IDPs are living in camps like this in the Darfur region.
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  • Fatna bathes her son Abdulbasid in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where international agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbors have harvested from outside a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where international agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna (left) brings home wood that she and some neighbors have harvested from outside a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where international organizations are  providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna lives in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where ACT-Caritas is providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Sunrise over thatched huts in Kubum, a village in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region.
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  • Fatna lives in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where international agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna lives in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, Sudan. More than 2.2 million people have been internally displaced within Sudan, and another quarter million forced to flee across the border into Chad.
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  • Two year old Abdulbasid lives in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • Fatna cooks for her family in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • A child in a camp for internally displaced people outside Kubum. More than 2.2 million IDPs are living in camps like this in the Darfur region.
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  • Girls scooping water from a hole they dug in the sand of a wadi in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur.
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  • A girl irons in her family's hut in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur.
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  • A man in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur.
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  • A boy in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur.
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  • Khadilla Abdulah Ibrahim (right) plows land at the edge of the Bilel Camp for internally displaced persons, along with her 18-year old daughter Hawaia. They have been displaced by government-supported violence against farming villages in the Darfur region of Sudan. They are planting peanuts and sorghum with seeds and a plow provided by ACT-Caritas, a joint effort of the world's Catholic and Protestant communities.
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  • A clinic run by the Catholic Church in Nyala treats displaced persons for skin diseases.
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  • A clinic run by the Catholic Church in Nyala treats displaced persons for skin diseases.
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  • A clinic run by the Catholic Church in Nyala, Darfur, treats displaced persons for skin diseases.
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  • A clinic run by the Catholic Church in Nyala treats displaced persons for skin diseases.
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  • A woman and her daughter leave a clinic run by the Catholic Church in Nyala, where displaced persons are reated.
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  • Children play outside their school in a camp near Bilel, where families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence.
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  • Children at play in a camp near Bilel, where families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence.
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  • Two women on their way home from working their field at the edge of a displaced persons camp near Bilel, where families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence affecting the region. They are assisted by ACT-Caritas with a variety of emergency services, including seeds and agricultural tools, schools and pre-schools for their children, and health care.
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