Our Mission

Our long-term plan is rehabilitation, sustainable peace, and development in the region. It is almost obvious that the ongoing conflict destroyed many villages and socio-economic infrastructures. We need to rebuild these destroyed villages and socio-economic infrastructures and generate small business plans for the local people of these villages. It is also obvious that in underdeveloped countries childbearing is a heavy burden on the health and welfare of women. This is because they are never certain of the survival of any one child. So, if through our project we can cause family planning to take root among both sexes, we will have succeeded in lightening that burden considerably. We believe that more children surviving means fewer children needing to be brought into the world thus freeing women from the never-ending cycle of childbearing.

Objectives

Current Objectives

We are seeking moral and material support as part of international cooperation to meet a very disturbing humanitarian situation that has arisen in Darfur-Western Sudan. We aim in a very positive way to cooperate with, support, and complement international bodies with similar objectives. Response from the international community is coming but considering the hugeness of the situation any other help from any other source is vital and our knowledge of the REGION gives us an added advantage in directly targeting the areas of immediate needs.

Goals and Results Projections

The overriding goal is to offer the people of these areas such services as would normally be available to them in times of peace. Such services would include food, and primary health care at source, there being little or no chance of their coming to larger settlements due to the conflict being prosecuted upon them. As far as expected results are concerned, we hope that our efforts will lead to clearly improved health for the people living under government control and the insurgent territories of the central, north, west, and southern Darfur regions.

Target Areas

The situation is quite chaotic with most of the villages depopulated and their peoples dispersed to the four winds (north, south, west, and central Darfur). It is, therefore, difficult at present to give a coherent breakdown of the sex, age, and social status of the target groups. However, as far as the Internal Displaced camp’s breakdown of the target population is concerned we can identify our target areas as northern Darfur, western Darfur, central Darfur, and southern Darfur As far as the target group exerting an influence on the conflict is concerned, we would wish to point out that we are in no way involved in taking sides. Our only desire is to render all possible humanitarian help to the innocent people caught up in the conflict. In this, we will be working closely with all humanitarian organizations in the region and other NGOs to facilitate our movements in the region

Project Description

The Darfur Diaspora Association (DDA) will in concert with the above-mentioned organizations, establish centers from where we shall reach out to the dispersed peoples in the Darfur region.
With the help of local organizations, we will continue and expand our studies to establish what needs and resources are required, how many Internally displaced camps, and villages, how many vaccines are needed, how many children are involved, how many trained people, injectors, and vehicles will be called-for…etc.
We are planning to train and equip vaccinators, who in turn WILL train lower-level staff, thus easing the burden and speeding up the process.
We will mount information campaigns to raise awareness of the benefits of public participation in peaceful group interaction. To accomplish this local, committees will be of invaluable help in encouraging people to seek out centers.
All this will create an atmosphere of awareness of participation, education, and public health care and will be of long-term benefit to the people of the region.
In cases of severe injuries or emergencies such as maiming due to anti-personal mines, difficult pregnancies, hernias, bullet wounds, etc., the doctors will get directly involved.
With regard to clean water and sanitation, we will have to train volunteers from local communities to sink wells and build simple latrines.
We will also include family planning in our project using, as much as possible, families especially women, elders, disabled people, and youth to further this essential part of the project.
As far as the division of roles is concerned, DDA will offer medical know-how through its team of doctors and hopefully through the good offices of other organizations. The material required, therefore, is medical equipment, medical drugs, food dehydration bags, etc.
The local committees on the other hand will be responsible for the organization and mobilization of the population.
As far as purchases are concerned, we would have to work on the assumption that we are given a grant to compare prices offered by various actor tenders.
We also have, for example, non-governmental charity organizations such as other NGOs around the world who operate on a non-profit basis.
Then there are drug companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa who may well prove to be cheaper but may not be able to supply all the drugs and medicines required.
Our aim is to start this project as quickly as we possibly can. It is after all a matter of life for millions of suffering people.
Our goal is to leave behind us well-trained staff from the local population to carry on our work as well as a well-functioning organizational capability.