{"id":21191,"date":"2018-04-27T21:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T21:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jww.org\/?p=21191"},"modified":"2018-04-27T21:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T21:50:23","slug":"some-darfuris-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/some-darfuris-return-home\/","title":{"rendered":"(Some) Darfuris Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cJust as my dreams have come true in coming [to the Iridimi refugee camp in Chad] to see this [Solar Cooker] project to fruition, here\u2019s hoping the refugees\u2019 dream of going back to their homes in a safe and secure Darfur happens soon\u2026 or at least within our lifetime.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Andres, Director, Solar Cooker Project, 2007<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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With a great deal of joy, tempered by a degree of sadness, we can report that Rachel\u2019s dream is coming true as of this week.<\/p>\n

Two months ago, we commemorated the 15th anniversary of the start of conflict in Darfur, the first genocide of the 21st century. Jewish World Watch was founded as a direct response to the Darfur genocide. The Darfur genocide<\/a> has caused the deaths of approximately 400,000 Darfuris, and displaced more than three million people.<\/p>\n

This week, the first group of 53 Sudanese refugees from the Iridimi camp left Chad for Darfur<\/a> on a \u201cgo-and-see visit\u201d to assess on-the-ground conditions prior to a larger scale homecoming. UNHCR spokesman Andrei Mahecic stated that amid a \u201csignificant\u201d reduction in inter-ethnic tensions in the region, \u201cthere is growing interest in returns\u201d and that thousands may return to Darfur through the rest of 2018. The returnees are provided transportation and a \u201creturn package\u201d which includes a three-month supply of food rations from the World Food Program.<\/p>\n

Approximately 300,000 Darfuri refugees still live in camps in eastern Chad, with more than 1.5 million displaced within Sudan or in neighboring countries. Our dedication to the survivors of genocide has never wavered. We remain committed to the Darfuris and to supporting education and reducing food insecurity through Little Ripples<\/a> and perma-gardening<\/a> in Chad.<\/p>\n

So yes, I rejoice in what I hope to be a growing trend toward normalcy for some Darfuri families. Yet, the Yazidis, Syrians and Rohingya are currently experiencing the same horrors that our Darfuri brothers and sisters have lived with, the Nuba Mountains region and South Sudan are still in turmoil and the DRC is still struggling under the yoke of Joseph Kabila.  Much more remains to be done to achieve our aspiration of a just and genocide free world.<\/p>\n

As we prepare for the final Walk to End Genocide of the 2018 season, I am grateful to those who have stayed the course, who view JWW\u2019s mission as their own, and who will never stand idly by so long as genocide and mass atrocities continue to plague our world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust as my dreams have come true in coming [to the Iridimi refugee camp in Chad] to see this [Solar Cooker] project to fruition, here\u2019s hoping the refugees\u2019 dream of going back to their homes in a safe and secure Darfur happens soon\u2026 or at least within our lifetime.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Andres, Director, Solar Cooker…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":21192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news-features","category-176","category-188","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}