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One detail about the camp really bothered me – the campfire and the pile of firewood nearby. At the center of the camp is a pictureque wood fire with a cooking pot. You’re encouraged to sit on the huge fallen tree trunk and contempl ate the posters and images that surround you. I kept getting distracted by the big tree stump holding a lantern and the pile of logs as thick as my avatar’s legs.
Firewood is a major problem in Darfur’s refugee camps. There’s not much firewood in Darfur to start with. There’s little or no firewood left near refugee camps – refugees routinely walk five to ten kilometers from the camps to collect fuel. If men leave the camps to forage for firewood, they run a very real risk of being killed by militants or soldiers. If women forage, they run the very real risk of being raped. So families engage in a terrible calculus – sending young girls out in the hopes that they’ll neither be raped nor killed. Yoo-Mi Lee and Mark Jacobs are giving workshops in Darfur to help women cook with less fuel so they can reduce their trips outside the camps, exposing themselves to danger. In Mark and Yoo-Mi’s pictures, you’ll see small, thin sticks, not huge piles of firewood…
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the common question might be: yes but what did they make and what happened next?
My response to that is that you are jumping the gun.