Perfect Gift for Foodies

We're all feeling pinched from the bleak financial outlook. Consider just for a moment, not having your own kitchen, or even your own stove to cook with.

Jewish World Watch is committed to protecting refugee women and girls from rape and other forms of violence, and helping them to rebuild their lives. Women and girls fleeing the genocide in Darfur, Sudan are placed in extreme jeopardy when undertaking the simple, but vital, task of collecting firewood for cooking fuel. We are reducing the vulnerability of these women by providing the Iridimi and Touloum refugee camps in Chad with solar cookers, and reducing their need to collect firewood. Our project protects these women and provides them with income opportunities that include: manufacturing solar cookers, training others to use the cookers and making carrying bags to increase the life span of the cookers. JWW is also developing other companion projects aimed to keep the women inside the relative safety of the camp.

This isn't just about going "green" by using solar power to cook. Solar cooking can reduce the need for frequent firewood collection reducing the risk of violence towards women and girls. Two solar cookers can save one ton of wood each year. There is no need to tend a fire so women are free to do other tasks. Manufacturing solar cookers provides income opportunities for female refugees.

You, you, you can do this. For only $30. That's probably less the price of one moderately nice dinner and glass of wine. It's the perfect gift for your foodie friends, the ones you commune and cook and eat with all year long.

You can have a direct impact on the lives of the women and children in refugee camps. And you can do it, without getting up from your computer... unless you have to grab your wallet. And if I was there, I would do that for you. I promise. Thanks, and Happy Holidays.

Here's the link to donate.