by Annie Turnbull (Cord Africa Programmes Operations Manager) We arrived in Farchana in Eastern Chad just a couple of days ago to visit projects funded by Jewish World Watch and implemented by Cord. Jewish World Watch first established a Solar Cooker Project in Chad in 2005, expanding their support for this work further when they…
It has been a long, exhausting and thought-provoking two days of meetings here in N’djamena. We have been meeting with Cord, our implementing partner in the Solar Cooker Project (SCP) in the Farchana refugee camp, as well as with Tchad Solaire, our partner in the Iridimi, Touloum and Oure Cassoni camps. We were also formally…
Janice Kamenir-Reznik December 7, 2012 Today we visited the Farchana refugee camp. The camp is located in the remote and isolated Chadian village of Farchana not far from the border with Sudan. We have come to witness the latest installation of our JWW Solar Cooker Project in the Farchana Refugee Camp, to meet with our…
It sounds self-evident and maybe even trite to assert that aid workers are extraordinary human beings, but it is true. Today we spent the day in Ndjamena meeting with various members of our Solar Cooker Project (SCP) teams in preparation for our journey tomorrow to the refugee camp. The people on the teams come from…
by Gregory Metzger One day Dinah, Yaakov’s only daughter, goes out to ‘visit the daughters of the land,’ and is seized and raped by Shechem, son of Hamor, the chief of that land. Yaakov hears of the rape but keeps silent until his sons are back from the field. Hamor pleads that Shechem longs for…