At Malam Darfur Peace and Development, we believe that creative solutions rooted in local needs can help communities recover and rebuild. In Darfur and across Sudan, communities have faced poverty, hunger, and illness for decades.
Through our work to promote peaceful coexistence and support rural communities, we have seen how women help build peace and run successful small businesses. The income they earn helps them support their families and contributes to their communities’ recovery.
Almayarim Bank has shown how support for women-led businesses can improve families’ lives and ease financial hardship. We aim to increase funding and reach more women in all the areas where we work in Darfur. We hope the approach can also be used in other parts of Sudan.
In Tawila, which hosts more than 700,000 displaced people, most of them women and children, Almayarim Bank awarded grants to its first group of participants. The women have started running their businesses in local markets, where they can earn their own income, meet their families’ needs, and rebuild their lives with dignity.
