What would you risk for your child?
It's a question asked every day in Darfur. Women risk rape and mutilation each time they leave the refugee camps in search of fire wood. With as many as 400,000 Darfuris dead and 2.3 million more having fled their homes for the safety of refugee camps, it may seem overwhelming but there is hope.
And it comes in the most unlikely shape of a stove. Learn more about the Berkeley-Darfur Stove, donating and how you can make a difference in Darfur.
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pbs quest news magazine - may 2008
Everyday, women living in the refugee camps of Darfur, Sudan must walk for up to seven hours outside the safety of the camps to collect firewood for cooking, putting them at risk for violent attacks. Now, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have engineered a more efficient wood-burning stove, which is greatly reducing both the women's need for firewood and the threats against them....
becoming a clinton global initiative project - april 2008
The Darfur Stoves Project was highlighted at the first Clinton Global Initiative University. President Clinton announced the launch of Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a new project that challenges students and universities to tackle global problems with practical, innovative solutions. Darfur Stoves was a flagshipCGI U project...
popular mechanics magazine- november 2007
Ashok Gadgil wins the 2007 Breakthrough Award for the Berkeley-Darfur Stove. An estimated 2.2 million refugees huddle in makeshift camps in the Darfur region of western Sudan. In the camps, they are safe, but they cook their meals over inefficient wood fires, and as already scant forests are depleted they must venture ever farther to gather fuel...
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