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Project in Focus
 In 2002 FAR began to work in Goz, a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) located outside Kosti. This camp is now home to over 20,000 people. When FAR first started working here, local transport cars, outside visitors, and even police hesitated to visit the camp after 4:00 p.m. due to violence and crime. FAR, the only NGO that has ever worked in Goz, offered education to residents on human rights, gender, peace and conflict, and publicized and promoted Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement once it had been reached. Income generating projects were also initiated, producing employment in the community as well as new services such as a bakery, a welding shop, and an ice-cutting shop.
FAR also facilitated the formation of a women’s vegetable group. Thirty women now have small vegetable plots on the outskirts of the camp. Each woman grows her own plot of onions, eggplants, and other local vegetables earning as much as $1000 a year from selling her produce – a higher wage than the national average for women.
Goz has been transformed: it is now a safe place to work and live. People from nearby villages feel free to pass through at any time of day without fear of violence. A vegetable market is thriving and people no longer have to travel long distances to purchase vegetables. FAR frequently hosts Community Interaction Events to celebrate the diversity between the people and tribes residing in the camp. Conflict has been replaced by peace, allowing residents to work together towards their own development.
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