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  • Asha Ibrahim Musa sits with her 23 month old son, Alyas Adam, in a ward for malnourished children in a hospital in Garsila. The children, all displaced by Darfur's ethnically-motivated violence, receive therapeutic feeding here. The ward is supported by the ACT-Caritas Darfur Emergency Response, a joint response of the world's Protestant and Catholic communities to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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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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  • Brian Martin, the head of programs for the ACT-Caritas Darfur Emergency Response, inspects the remnants of a house in the burned out village of Um Seifa, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 pulls her clothing about her in a strong wind in the Dereig Camp for families internally displaced by Darfur's conflict.
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  • A boy in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur.
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  • A group of displaced women in the Salam IDP camp near Deleij, in the western Darfur region of Sudan..
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  • A boy studies in a makeshift classroom in a camp for families displaced by the violence in Sudan's Darfur 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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  • 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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  • A camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • A boy watched a United Nations helicopter, which transports aid workers throughout Sudan's Darfur region, which has been plagued by violent conflict between government forces, Arab militias, and rebel soldiers.
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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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  • An Arab nomad travels in Darfur. Historic tensions between Arab nomads and African farmers have worsened in recent years after the central government armed Arab militias in order to stregthen their counterinsurgency campaign against regional rebels.
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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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  • A girl studies in a makeshift classroom in a camp for families displaced by the violence in Sudan's Darfur region. Girls have had few opportunities for formal education in many Darfuri communities, and while living in IDP camps are making up for lost time.
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  • A displaced girl in the war-torn 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 woman and baby displaced by violence in the Darfur region of Sudan. They are living in the remnants of what was once a thatched roof house, but which was burned in an attack by pro-government Arab militias and Sudanese government troops.
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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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  • 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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  • 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 (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 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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  • 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 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 displaced woman near El Daein, in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • A camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • Lining up for water in a displaced persons camp in Darfur.
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  • In the Darfur region of Sudan, the remnants of what were once thatched roof houses. This village was burned in an attack by pro-government Arab militias and Sudanese government troops.
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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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  • 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 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 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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  • 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 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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  • An internally displaced woman receives a blanket and other supplies at a distribution point in a camp in Darfur. The supplies were provided by the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • In the Ardabba IDP Camp near Garsila, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, ACT-Caritas provides primary health care -- including the services of Dr. Robert Lobor (center)-- to displaced families as well as members of the local host community.
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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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  • A girl displaced by violence in Darfur.
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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 in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region.
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  • A woman returns from her field outside the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Eyes of a child displaced by violence in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • A newly arrived family builds a shelter in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Two children in the Darfur region of Sudan, displaced by government-sponsored ethnic conflict, sit in a displaced persons camp near a fire where there's no food to be cooked.
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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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  • Women carry water home from a communal well in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons in West Darfur. Water is a key element in the conflict in Darfur, where over 400,000 people have died and some 2.5 million have been displaced.
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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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  • Members of the African Union force on patrol in Labado, in the Darfur region of Sudan, in 2005. The AU force, which was unable to stem the violence, was absorbed in early 2008 into a larger peacekeeping force under the control of the United Nations. The conflict in Darfur has killed some 400,000 people and left 2.5 million displaced since 2003.
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  • A boy in an informal camp for families displaced by fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan between government forces, Arab militias, and rebel soldiers.
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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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  • A girl in the Dereig Camp for families internally displaced by Darfur's conflict.
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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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  • 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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  • Newly arrived victims of Darfur's conflict set up a shelter in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei.
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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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  • 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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  • 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 bathes and dresses her son Mustafa in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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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 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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  • Three women displaced by violence in Sudan's Darfur region grind grain in the Abu Jabra IDP Camp.
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  • Stacks of grain await distribution to war's victims in a World Food Organization facility in Garsila, in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur.
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  • A boys writes on the blackboard with encouragement from his teacher in a school in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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  • Boys line up before school in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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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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  • 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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  • Boys in class in a school in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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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 boy herds goats in a camp for internally displaced people outside Um Labassa in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • A malnourished child -- displaced by violence throughout the Darfur region of Sudan -- is cared for by his mother in a hospital in Garsila. Disease and malnutrition have taken a heavy toll among the Darfuris, displaced by fighting between government forces, Arab militias, and rebel soldiers.
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  • A baby is weighed in a health center in the Hassahissa IDP Camp near Zalingei where displaced children's growth is closely monitored and their families provided with supplemental food.
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  • Children fly a kite in a camp for internally displaced families near Zalingei, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
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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. The AU force was later absorbed into a larger UN force.
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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 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • A baby is weighed in a health center in the Hassahissa IDP Camp near Zalingei where displaced children's growth is closely monitored and their families provided with supplemental food.
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  • At a clinic outside Nyala, Sudanese workers keep track of the health status of children displaced by government-sponsored ethnic conflict.
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  • A woman repairs a bed as a United Nations helicopter flies over the Dereig Camp for families internally displaced by Darfur's conflict.
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  • A man bakes bread in the Khamsadegaig camp for internally displaced families, where victims of the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have taken refuge. ACT-Caritas supports families here with a variety of services, including potable water, sanitation, and income generating opportunities--such as baking bread.
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