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Children at water pump

Children at a water pump in Darfur. [Fiona Callister]

Nathaniel Brown welcomes refugees returning home

Nathaniel Brown welcomes refugees returning home and collects their names so CAFOD partner SBCRC can distribute household kits, seeds and tools to them [Annie Bungeroth]

Joseph Ilkalur

Joseph Ilkalur [Annie Bungeroth]

Father Dalura

Father Dalura [Annie Bungeroth]

Elderly women

Few elderly people manage to reach the relative safety of camps when they flee their homes because of fighting. [Charlotte Brudenell ACT/Caritas]

Monsignor Anyugo

Monsignor Anyugo [Annie Bungeroth]

Agnes Jamba

Agnes Jamba [Annie Bungeroth]

Vicky Elia

Vicky Elia [Annie Bungeroth]

Layla Bashir selling bread

Layla Bashir selling bread [Annie Bungeroth]

Children at Kurmuk school

Children at Kurmuk school [Annie Bungeroth]

Priscilla Atieno

Priscilla Atieno [Annie Bungeroth]

Amira playing at school

Amira playing at school [Annie Bungeroth]

Nawal at school

Nawal at school [Annie Bungeroth]

Nawal making bread

Nawal making bread [Annie Bungeroth]

Children at kurmuk primary school

Children at kurmuk primary school [Annie Bungeroth]

boys in classroom

Akaber and his classmates in the camp school in Nertiti, Darfur, Sudan. [Charlotte Brudenell/ACT Caritas]

Child with pots

A displaced Sudanese child carries supplies at Farchana refugee camp, Chad July 26, 2004 [Reuters/Radu Sigheti, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

woman with tree

Hawa with one of the trees given to her by local partner Sudan Social Development Organisation, and banana and lentil plants she planted herself in the family compound in Hamadiya camp, Darfur. [Charlotte Brudenell/ACT-Caritas]

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Bdria (pictured) and her family were forced by fierce fighting to run away from their home. "Hundreds of people attacked us on horses and camels," she said. [CAFOD]

Hassaballa mobile clinic

Ibrahim Suliman Hajar provides a medical consultation to Khaltoum and her nine-month old baby at the Hassaballa mobile clinic [ACT-Caritas]

Few elderly people manage to reach the relative safety of camps

Few elderly people manage to reach the relative safety of camps when they flee their homes because of fighting. "This is the grandmother of our village," says a group of women and girls who have fled their village out of fear that it would be attacked, following a spate of attacks in their region [Charlotte Brudenell, ACT/Caritas]

Soldiers in tank

Nigerian troops, part of the African Union contingent in Darfur, on patrol in Labado. [Paul Jeffrey]

Nawal Mohummed

Nawal Mohummed works as part of a CAFOD-funded women’s project in southern Sudan [Annie Bungeroth]

Fatima Khalid

"We ran away after my husband was killed," says Fatima Khalid. The ongoing conflict has left many villages in Darfur deserted [Hege Opseth/ACT/Caritas]

unloading plane

Aid workers unload supplies for distribution to people made homeless in Darfur [ACT/Caritas]

Nawal with her baby

As a child, Nawal fled her village in Sudan during the country’s bloody civil war. Now married with a family of her own, she is both earning and learning through a women's co-operative [Annie Bungeroth]

Football team

The Khamsadegaig coach gives a pep talk to his team, Darfur. Matches are held to get different parts of the community together. [Mohammed Alsafi/ACT-Caritas ]

Fatna (right) brings home wood

[Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]

Woman collects water

Woman collects water. The Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region [Paul Jeffrey]

Woman in Hassa Hissa camp

[Paul Jeffrey]

Djidma

Djidma and her daughter at Farschana refugee camp, across the border from Sudan. [Fiona Callister]

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A Sudanese refugee family prepares porridge near the frontier after crossing into Chad to flee attacks by militiamen [REUTERS/Antony Njuguna, courtesy of www.alertnet.org]

People waving leaves and streamers

Women from Kajo-Keji in South Sudan, who have been refugees, are now rebuilding their lives, with CAFOD's help [Rob Rees]

Farshana refugees

Women at a water point in Farshana refugee camp, run by Caritas in Chad. [Fiona Callister]

Farshana camp

View of Farshana refugee camp in Chad, near border with Sudan. [Fiona Callister]

Girl refugees

Sudanese girl refugees at Farshana camp, Chad. [Fiona Callister]

Sudanese family

Sudanese mother and her family at Farshana refugee camp in Chad. [Fiona Callister]

Sudanese refugee boy

Sudanese child refugee sitting outside Farshana camp, Chad. [Fiona Callister]

Crowd of children

Thousands of children displaced by the war in Sudan attend schools run by Save the Saveable [Archdiocese of Khartoum]

Schoolgirls at the Hassa Hissa camp

Schoolgirls at the Hassa Hissa camp school run by Sudan Council of Churches on behalf of ACT/Caritas [Gillian Sandford, ACT/Caritas]

Sheik residents at the Belil Camp

Sheik residents at the Belil Camp [Hege Opseth, ACT/Caritas]

Nassima and child

Nassima* and her baby are refugees at Farshana refugee camp, which is run by CAFOD partners SECADEV, across the border from Sudan in Chad. [Fiona Callister]

Nassima and child

Nassima* and her baby are refugees at Farshana refugee camp, which is run by CAFOD partners SECADEV, across the border from Sudan in Chad. [Fiona Callister]

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Sudanese refugee with child. [AP]

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Sudanese refugee holding her sick child in a therapeutic feeding centre in Chad. [Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures]

Family at Hashba camp

A family at Hashba camp [Fiona Callister]

Halma

Halma arrived in the refugee camp with nothing after fleeing a militia attack on her village. [Fiona Callister]

Nasr Eldinna Elsanjah

Nasr Eldinna Elsanjah is a volunteer working with Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO) to distribute vital aid to refugees in Belil. [Fiona Callister]

Landrover in wadi

An ACT/Caritas team bringing aid to regions west of Nyala finds the going difficult. [Hege Opseth/ACT/Caritas]

Caritas delegation Darfur

Caritas delegates Eel de Groot (Cordaid and ACT in Holland) and Bruno Strebel (representing Caritas Suisse and ACT member, HEKS) [Caritas]

Refugee water point

CAFOD's partners are leading a programme that will provide clean water and sanitation to hundreds of thousands of refugees. [Nils Cartensen]

Refugee family

Refugee family in Darfur under make-shift shelter. [Fiona Callister]

Loading plane

CAFOD partners load up plane with aid to Darfur to help the hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the crisis in the region. [CAFOD]

Zallingi children

Sudanese child refugees queuing for water [Nils Carstensen DCA/ACT International]

Zallingi

Sudanese refugees queuing for water just outside the small town of Zallingi [Nils Carstensen DCA/ACT International]

Tamsin Walters in Darfur

Tamsin Walters listens to displaced villagers in southern Darfur [CAFOD]

Mershing huts

CAFOD's partners provide bamboo and other materials to help build houses for refugees in Mershing camp in Darfur [Alistair Dutton]

Mershing camp

Children play near newly constructed shelters in Mershing camp, Darfur [Alistair Dutton]

Nertiti clinic

Mothers and babies waiting in a clinic in Nertiti, Darfur. [Fiona Callister]

Schoolgirl Fatima

Schoolgirl Fatima Mohammed Abu Shahi, 14, washes her hands in the schoolyard [Gillian Sandford, ACT/Caritas]

child being measured

Amona Adam Osman, held by her mother, Awatif Abdu-Rahman, has the circumference of her arm measured as a test of her nutritional status at a supplementary feeding center in the camp for displaced people in South Darfur [Gillian Sandford, ACT/Caritas]

Woman and baby

CAFOD is reaching 500,000 people in the region providing healthcare, shelter, food aid and clean water [CAFOD]

Psychosocial Handicrafts Centre, Nyala.

ACT/CARITAS Darfur Emergency Response Programme: Psychosocial Handicrafts Centre in Nyala. Centre run by CAFOD partner Sudanaid. [Lesley Anne Knight]

Pregnant woman

A pregnant woman having her tummy checked by doctor in the health centre in Um Labassa camp. [Paul Jeffrey]

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A healthcare project for mothers and babies in Darfur [CAFOD]

Chris Bain out and about

CAFOD director Chris Bain visits key projects in Sudan [CAFOD]

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CAFOD director Chris Bain helps with a children's healthcare project in Darfur [CAFOD]

Women packing mershing

Women in Mershing pack their most indispensable belongings - the children’s school books and the family’s clothes - so they are ready to flee at any time. [Nils Carstensen, DanChurchAid/ACT]

Woman with plastic sheeting

People recently forced to flee to Dereig camp after their villages were attacked by militias have received materials to construct their own shelters [Charlotte Brudenell, ACT/Caritas]

Girls at school

Girls living in a displaced persons' camp attend school supported by CAFOD partner the Sudan Council of Churches [Nils Carstensen, ACT/Caritas]

Boys in Um Seefa camp

Boys in Um Seefa camp, where food and water are scarce [Rainer Lang, ACT/Caritas]

Taaisha women

Women in Taaisha queue to receive plastic sheeting and jerry cans. [Hege Opseth, ACT/Caritas]

waterpump

ACT/Caritas partner SUDO has installed water pumps in Kalma camp [Hege Opseth ACT/Caritas]

Refugee mother and child

Refugee mother and child in Darfur, Sudan. [Amelia Bookstein]

Chief tests new pump

A Taaisha village chief tests a pump installed by ACT/Caritas [Hege Opseth, ACT/Caritas]

Health promoter

An ACT/Caritas health promoter presents a workshop in Bashum camp. [Hege Opseth/ACT Caritas]

Burga clinic

Distributing medical supplies at the clinic in Burga camp [Rainer Lang, ACT/Caritas]

Woman on donkey

People gather the little they have left and flee the attacks [Hege Opseth ACT/Caritas]

Woman cooking Kubum

Asha Buma Aburas, who has been displaced by the conflict, cooks dinner for her family in Kubum, South Darfur. [Laura Storr]

Women weaving mats

[Charllotte Brudenell]

Khadija Mohammed

Khadija Mohammed, 25, was driven from her home when militia attacked her village. She now lives in a shelter at Kubum camp, south Darfur - along with thousands of others who suffered the same fate [Laura Storr]

Young people HIV/AIDS

CAFOD partner, the Sudan Council of Churches, trains young people to train others to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS [Charlotte Brudenell/ACT-Caritas]

Fatima and Bdria

Bdria Hamed, 18 and Fatima Yucob, 22 take part in sewing classes in Derieg camp, south Darfur [Laura Storr]

Gadija

Gadija comforts her son in Okash camp [Hege Opseth]