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The ACT/Caritas Darfur Emergency Response

The images on this page were captured in May 2005, and are licensed for use only to churches and agencies
that are members of Action by Churches Together (ACT) or Caritas Internationalis. Photos must be credited
"Paul Jeffrey/ACT-Caritas". Questions regarding usage should be addressed to ACT.
Additional Darfur photos
by the photographer are available for non-ACT organizations from Kairosphotos. Thanks to UMCOR for hosting
this site.
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Near Zalingei, one of hundreds of villages burned in the conflict between government forces, militias, and rebel soldiers in the Darfur region of Sudan.

 


Near Zalingei, one of hundreds of villages burned in the conflict between government forces, militias, and rebel soldiers in the Darfur region of Sudan.

 


Children in Labado, where about 5,000 of the 25,000 people who lived here have returned home with the presence of African Union troops. According to an AU report, the town was bombed in December 2004 by the Sudanese military, during a conflict involving government forces, militias, and rebel soldiers.

 

 


Part of the clinic in Labado, where, according to an AU report, the town was bombed in December 2004 by the Sudanese military, during a conflict involving government forces, militias, and rebel soldiers.

 


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.

 


Part of the foundation of a house in Labado, where, according to an AU report, the town was bombed in December 2004 by the Sudanese military, during a conflict involving government forces, militias, and rebel soldiers.

 


Nigerian troops--part of the African Union contingent in Darfur--on patrol in Labado.

 


Nigerian troops--part of the African Union contingent in Darfur--on patrol in Labado.

 


In a hospital in Garsila, a displaced woman cares for her children who suffer from malnutrition. ACT/Caritas is constructing a clinic and carrying out primary health care programs in the IDP camps around Garsila.

 


In a hospital in Garsila, a displaced woman cares for her child who suffer from malnutrition. ACT/Caritas is constructing a clinic and carrying out primary health care programs in the IDP camps around Garsila.

 


An IDP camp outside Zalingei.

 


Residents of an IDP camp outside Garsila line up for water.

 


A view of the Hassahissa IDP Camp near Zalingei.

 


A view of the Hassahissa IDP Camp near Zalingei.

 


A newly arrived resident of an IDP camp outside Garsila constructs a shelter for his family.

 


A resident of an IDP camp outside Garsila shows his card for getting basic food commodities from the World Food Program.

 


Women return to the Kalma IDP Camp outside Nyala after fetching firewood. According to relief workers and human rights groups, hundreds of women have been raped and several killed while hunting outside IDP camps for firewood.

 

 

 


Near Garsila, a displaced woman returns with firewood. According to relief workers and human rights groups, hundreds of women have been raped and several killed while hunting outside IDP camps for firewood.

 


Bags of grain from the U.N. World Food Program await distribution to residents of an IDP camp outside Garsila.

 


Bags of grain from the U.N. World Food Program are unloaded in Nyala for transport on to nearby IDP camps.

 


Bags of grain from the U.N. World Food Program are unloaded in Nyala for transport on to nearby IDP camps.



Cooking oil from the U.N. World Food Program is distributed to residents of an IDP camp outside Garsila.

 


In recent months, violence against vehicles traveling through the countryside has increased. Drivers have been robbed and even killed, and trucks and their cargo burned.

 


A man and his camel walking through a sandstorm near Labado.

 


Two women walking through the countryside near Labado watch a U.N. helicopter flying over Darfur.

 


In Zalingei, a boy walks toward a U.N. helicopter that has carried relief workers to the remote area.

 


In a hospital in Garsila, a displaced woman cares for her sick child. ACT/Caritas is constructing a clinic and carrying out primary health care programs in the IDP camps around Garsila.

 


In a hospital in Garsila, a displaced woman cares for her sick child. ACT/Caritas is constructing a clinic and carrying out primary health care programs in the IDP camps around Garsila


Two children stand on the parched ground of Darfur.


Bags of grain from the U.N. World Food Program are loaded in Nyala for transport to nearby IDP camps