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This year has been extraordinarily challenging. Food prices are at their highest level in two years. And our food projects are facing major funding shortfalls – programs that are absolutely critical to real people struggling to survive, like Ammal (I’ve included her email below).

Your reliable monthly donations make it possible for us to continue our lifesaving work. We’re rebuilding lives in Haiti and Pakistan... we’re treating and preventing severe child malnutrition in drought-affected regions of Africa… and we’re empowering communities across the globe to break the cycle of hunger.

Thank you.

With just hours left to the deadline, I wanted to give you one last chance to participate in this special campaign to change the lives of poor hungry women in Darfur, Sudan. I’m convinced we can transform the lives of 20,000 women in Darfur before 2010 ends.

Will you make a special year-end donation of $30 or more? Every moment we wait is another life we could have saved. 

http://www.wfp.org/stove 

I’m truly inspired by your passion and dedication, and I’m certain that – if each of us contributes a little bit – we really can build a world without hunger. Thank you again for being one of our Heroes Fighting Hunger.

Wishing you all the best in the New Year,

Marcela
World Food Programme

P.S. If you’ve already made your year-end gift, please accept our deepest gratitude. To give by cheque or bank transfer, click here.

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From: Ammal, on behalf of WFP
Sent: December 15, 2010
Subject: I am a woman in Darfur

As a Hero Fighting Hunger, your monthly donations are absolutely essential to launching innovative programs like the one described below, which has  transformed the lives of women in Darfur. If you would like to make a special one-time donation, that is always appreciated, but please know that we are deeply grateful for the valuable contributions you already make. This email from Ammal was translated by Amit Singh, World Food Programme (WFP) officer in Darfur. Ammal is one of the many people around the world who rely on the support of caring individuals like you. Thank you. - Marcela, WFP  xxx --  I’m a woman living in Darfur. What does that mean? It means you live in constant fear. Your home has been ravaged by drought and ethnic conflict. Your children are severely undernourished. You cook over an open fire whose harmful smoke slowly kills you. You walk 15 kilometers, four days a week, to find firewood, even though you know that’s how women and young girls could get raped or even killed by roving militants. Sometimes you send your daughter. You have no choice. Until recently. The World Food Programme is giving us an unlikely weapon to  protect ourselves: a fuel-efficient stove that reduces the need for firewood. $30 may not seem like much – but to me, it is a lifeline and a lasting solution to hunger and abuse. At just $30 per stove and training, you can provide a critical lifeline to more women like me in Darfur. We have been living like this for many years – hungry, fearful, without hope. This is no way to live, especially when there is a solution that can make a real difference. In addition to providing food to cook, WFP taught me to make my own fuel-efficient stove and convert domestic waste into briquettes (cooking fuel). That helps me be self-sufficient, avoid the risk of rape, and protect the environment – all at the same time. Your support today will change lives in Darfur. I am living proof of that. I’m deeply grateful for the World Food Programme and for caring individuals like you who make their work possible. Thank you, Ammal Head of the Women’s Development Association Network in Darfur On behalf of the World Food Programme

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