Relief in Sudan's West Darfur State Children in West Darfur Are Getting an Education Despite Ongoing Upheaval and Conflict Field Update Al Ryad IDP camp children's center, El Geneina, West Darfur: left-right, Osman 11, Bahir 11, Hassaballah 6 in front Mohammed 13.  Save the Children / Jenny Mathews March 2008 marks the four year anniversary of Save the Children's entry into Sudan's West Darfur State to address the urgent needs of children affected by conflict, atrocities and their families' forced displacement from their homes. We remain at the very heart of this complex humanitarian crisis, working in camps and host communities to provide essential support to as many as 500,000 still-displaced children and adults every month. Save the Children is the largest international organization on the ground in West Darfur. Our donor-driven programs include making food and clean water available, health care and emergency obstetrical care for women, protection for children and women, education, livelihoods training and assisting in the management of the Habila, Fur Baranga, Krenik, and Krinding 1 camps. Although security has deteriorated in the past several months and fresh attacks on villages have driven thousands more people into camps and closed major roads, Save the Children staff work constantly to ensure the survival and well-being of children and women and that programs are ongoing as security allows. FIELD UPDATE Hunger Relief We distributed 3,678 tons of food to 216,000 children and adults in 14 camps in February.  Other camps had received rations in advance in January. A 12-member food relief committee in Um Shalaya received two-days of training. Water and Sanitation Clean water was supplied to 195,250 children and adults through the operation and maintenance of 631 water taps and hand pumps. Four hand pumps were installed in an area of the Fur Baranga camp proposed for additional families. 2,150 children who attend our child centers were taught lessons in hygiene. Nutrition  Our community therapeutic care nutrition program operates from sites in Krinding, Hagar Bagar, Gemiza, Um Jakoti and Fur Baranga. We conduct an outreach program, an outpatient therapeutic program for severely malnourished children and a supplementary feeding program for moderately malnourished children and pregnant and lactating women. Sudan, West Darfur, September 25th 2007 Krindig camp for internally displaced people. 27 year-old Cubra Haroon Juma, a midwife for 2 years, has been with Save the Children for four years. She is pictured with her 11 month-old daughter Yasmine Suleiman.  Save the Children / Jenny Mathews 411 children were being treated in the outpatient and supplementary programs. Ninety-seven girls and boys under age 5 were released from the program during February. Staff continued screenings in camps and communities to identify malnourished children.  Primary Health Our facilities treated 20,106 outpatients, of whom 7,047 were children under age 5. During February, 298 women gave birth in clean, safe surroundings. Another 400 women who had recently given birth visited our reproductive health facilities for follow-up care.At the Krinding clinic, we held refresher training in danger signs of childhood and maternal health problems and HIV/AIDS for 25 health workers. Protection for Children Save the Children's 37 child support centers attracted some 6,900 children daily during February. Each center promotes the psychosocial recovery and resiliency of war-affected children through recreational sports, singing and dancing, drawing and handicrafts, games and basic literacy and numeracy lessons. Our protection team in Riyadh Camp identified and registered 12 children separated from their families during an influx of people fleeing violence in Abu Soruj. Our art specialist continued working in Krinding Camp, where he has helped over 200 children make toys and draw. He also trained seven other staff to ensure continuity as he moves to another camp. Protection for Women Gender-based violence was a focus of efforts in February at several of our women's centers. Fifteen awareness sessions and sessions on supporting women victims involved some 644 women, men, traditional birth attendants and others. 90 very vulnerable women in Sisi were supported by women's centers' sanduks, which are revolving funds to which women with income-generating activities contribute. In total, some 6,000 women participated in literacy, stove-making, handicraft making and food preparation at all project sites.     Kubri School, Krindig IDP Camp 1: School children in their class.  Save the Children / Jenny Mathews Emergency Education We support 42 schools in West Darfur with 22,421 students. Ten recreation kits, five classroom kits and five school kits were distributed in February, benefiting 2,900 children at Kerenek Camp. The West Darfur State Ministry of Education began deploying over 1,000 newly trained teachers to all localities. Save the Children has made advocacy for more and qualified teachers in West Darfur a priority. Livelihoods 396 youth attended various vocation training activities in the Krenek and Mornei camps. 36 youth were provided with small funding to start income-generation activities in the camps. The construction of a demonstration farm was completed in Fur Baranga and another is under construction in Geneina. Camp Management and Coordination In Krinding 1, we arranged for a fire prevention campaign in response to recent outbreaks of fire that pose a persistent risk. In Krinding 1, Save the Children also is organizing an initiative to have women more involved as members of the camp coordinating committee. We will train women in leadership skills. In Krenik, a community meeting was held to organize responses to families whose dwellings were recently destroyed by a fire. Read more about our work in the Sudan Help support Save the Children's programs in Sudan