Current Education Projects:

ACT OUT LOUD: The Darfur Action Tour
Youth Inspiring Youth to Take Action on Darfur

JWW has harnessed the power of music to inspire young people to take action on Darfur. Led by trained JWW Youth Educators, campers learned about and took their first steps of action towards alleviating the crisis in Darfur. After taking part in these interactive educational and advocacy activities, campers at Camp Ramah and Camp JCA Shalom were treated to an exciting and inspirational concert - including the original song, "Act Out Loud" - that encourages year round youth activism.

In addition, JWW has developed a list of bunk-type activities to further engage children at camp. For more information about any of our summer camp activities, or to receive the bunk activities sheet, please contact info@JewishWorldWatch.org.

For more information about this program and to download materials, click here.

SPEAKERS' BUREAU:
Raising Awareness in Southern California

Jewish World Watch trains qualified speakers to provide a multi-media educational presentation suitable for groups of any size and age. With dozens of speakers trained and hundreds of speaking requests filled, JWW has filled an important role in raising awareness about the Darfur crisis in Southern California.

Jewish World Watch can accommodate audiences from as young as ten years old and up. We provide a fully trained speaker, equipped with the multi-media presentation and all necessary technology. Our Speakers' Bureau serves the Southern California area.

Please click here to Request a Speaker!

Current Advocacy Projects:

30 SECOND ACTIONS
See What 30 Seconds of Your Time Could Do!

JWW has begun a campaign of 30-Second Actions, quick-click postcards that allow visitors to our site to take immediate action to end the genocide in Darfur. There is nothing more important to creating change for the people of Darfur than immediate and robust pressure on governments and international actors by their constituents. JWW is providing current, quick and easy ways for everyone to get involved in this important issue.

Take action now!  

DIVESTMENT

JWW supports and advocates for a method of economic pressure on the government of Sudan called targeted divestment. As the ultimate goal in our divestment campaign is to protect the victims in Darfur, the targeted divestment model which JWW supports is crafted so as to maximize the impact on the Sudanese government and its policies while they minimize adverse impacts on the innocent Sudanese people JWW is trying to help. The divestment awareness campaign targets companies that are complicit in the genocide or that are benefiting from it, and companies that have refused to take a stance against the atrocities, but that offer only minimal benefits to the country's oppressed and underprivileged.

JWW encourages all people to take action to end the genocide in Darfur by supporting individual, local, and state divestment campaigns.

Take action now!

CONFLICT PREVENTION IN DARFUR

JWW is supporting International Crisis Group (ICG), a key research and advocacy organization with a long history in Sudan, in completing research on the current situation in Darfur. JWW's grant to ICG allows that research to be directed towards a key ICG publication on the security situation in Darfur. The publication will generate practical and specific policy recommendations aimed at advancing and supporting peace processes and mobilizing political support in the immediate region, key African capitals, Europe, North America and the international community at large for the implementation of these policy recommendations. As an organization with decades of experience in policy making and advising, support of ICG's work is an important complement to JWW's advocacy mission.

ICG Grant Proposal

Current Refugee Relief Projects:

BACKPACK PROJECT
Backpacks Filled with Supplies for the Refugee Children

Jewish World Watch is embarking on a new project to provide backpacks to the 14,000 school-aged children of the Oure Cassoni refugee camp in Chad. The backpacks will be filled with essentials for kids to go to school and to learn, such as shoes, soap, toothbrush and toothpaste, paper and pencils, textbooks, educational supplies and basic hygiene items. We will partner with the International Rescue Committee, which runs schools and child-safe spaces in this camp, to make sure the children can survive and learn under the most difficult of circumstances.

SOLAR COOKER PROJECT
Protecting the Women of Darfur

Jewish World Watch's landmark Solar Cooker project aims to improve the safety and survival of women in refugee camps in Chad. Women and girls risk rape and other forms of gender-based violence when leaving the relative safety of the camps to collect wood - essential for cooking the basic food supplies provided by relief agencies. To combat the incidence of rape, Jewish World Watch has partnered with KoZon Foundation and Solar Cookers International (SCI) to expand access to solar cookers for Darfur refugee women at the Iridimi and Touloum camps in Chad.

Solar cookers built by the women of the camps cook tasty and nutritious meals with a few hours of free, renewable sunshine and saves one ton of fuelwood each year. The project enables refugee families to solar cook, save money and reduce the risks associated with venturing out of the camp.

Solar cookers provide a sustainable solution to meet the urgent need for cooking energy alternatives for Darfur refugee families. By supporting the Solar Cooker project, Jewish World Watch is bringing hope and life-saving assistance to Darfur refugees living in Chad.

Jewish World Watch began supporting this project in May 2006. Together with the KoZon Foundation and Solar Cookers International, two organizations with extensive experience in disseminating solar cookers in refugee camps on the African continent. The project enables refugee families to solar cook, save money and reduce the risks associated with venturing out of the camp. Solar cookers provide a sustainable solution to meet the urgent need for cooking energy alternatives for Darfur refugee families. By supporting the Solar Cooker project, Jewish World Watch is bringing hope and life-saving assistance to Darfur refugees living in Chad.

»	More Information on the Solar Cooker Project
	Informational Fact Sheet
»	Techniques of solar cooking

Solar Cooker Media

"SHE SPEAKS, SHE LISTENS"
RADIO PROJECT
Addressing Gender-Based Violence with Darfur Refugees

Jewish World Watch is supporting a unique and hi-impact radio and community outreach project assisting refugee women in Eastern Chad to address their common range of experience, needs and concerns in conflict and exile, and recover from the indignity and pain of the violations they have suffered.

In partnership with Equal Access and Internews Network , JWW funds are supporting the production and expansion of the innovative radio series "She Speaks, She Listens". This gender-based violence (GBV) program combines local radio production, voices and stories of women refuges, with direct community outreach through listening groups to support the recovery process for women suffering from the Darfur conflict.

While conflict-related rape, sexual slavery and assault are the most high-profile examples of GBV, the trauma that affects the women of the Darfur is much broader than that. It has its roots in, and is exacerbated by highly sensitive cultural factors, perceptions and practices that make it important for radio programs to address issues ranging from child marriage, to domestic violence, to women's labor and health issues. The multi-lingual "She Speaks, She Listens" show allows an audience of women to hear for the first time the voices of other women reflecting on the common range of their experience in conflict and exile, on their daily needs and concerns, and in many cases, on the indignity and pain of being excluded from their communities on account of the violations they have suffered.

COMMUNITY AND PSYCHOSOLCIAL SERVICES
Grief Counseling for Darfuri Refugees

Escaping violence leaves refugees traumatized an unable to engage in the simplest tasks of daily life, with their coping and survival skills largely spent during flight. In the wake of fleeing their homes, refugees struggle to build new lives for themselves in the refugee camps - a struggle that in itself can be traumatic.

A UNHCR-sponsored psychosocial assessment of the Goz Amir and Djabal camps, carried out by Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and IsraAID staff, revealed that all the refugees have suffered severe trauma and present common symptoms, including intense feelings of loss, flashbacks, anger and range, feelings of withdrawal, etc. Many also suffer from physical symptoms such as headaches, stomach aches, insomnia and changes in appetite. All of the refugees struggle to adjust to life in the camp.