Act Out Loud: The Darfur Action Tour
Darfur Facts Game – 4th-5th grades
Fact #1
Where do people go when they
are forced to leave their home
because of war?
Fact #2
How many people are refugees
from the war in Darfur?
Fact #3
How big is Darfur?
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Fact #4
How do people get to refugee
camps?
Fact #5
What are the names of two
refugee camps in Chad that
Jewish World Watch helps?
Fact #6
What is one activity children do
in the refugee camps?
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Fact #7
What is it called when someone
does not have enough food to
grow or live?
Fact #8
What are two things that people
normally get to eat in the
camps?
Fact #9
How much water does each
person get each day in the
camp?
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Fact #10
What is one way that people can
cook in a refugee camp?
Fact #11
How many people are in a
refugee camp?
Fact #12
What is one thing YOU can do to
help?
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Act Out Loud: The Darfur Action Tour
Darfur Facts Game – 4th-5th grades
Answer: Refugee Camp
Explanation: A refugee camp is a place set up to assist people trying to escape from war. Refugees are
people who have been forced to leave their homes because of war or violence. Jewish World Watch
works in two refugee camps to help people escaping the war in Darfur.
Answer: 2.5-3 million people
Explanation: 2.5-3 million people have become refugees from the war in Darfur. Most of these people are
living as homeless people in Darfur itself, but about 400,000 people have escaped to other countries that
border Sudan, like Chad or the Central African Republic.
Answer: The size of Texas
Explanation: Darfur alone is the size of Texas or France. Sudan is the largest country in Africa, and
Darfur is a big part of it. It has a desert climate – it is very dry and very hot. Water and good land – for
farming or for raising animals – are both very scarce, and a reason for a lot of fighting there.
Answer: They walk
Explanation: Many people have to walk very far distances, separated from other family members and
friends. Many have to hide and protect themselves along the way. It’s a very dangerous trip. Families are
separated, and many times children are separated from their parents. They only have the things they can
carry, many times only the clothes they were wearing when they left.
Answer: Touloum and Iridimi
Explanation: Jewish World Watch was started to help people escaping the war in Darfur. Jewish World
Watch works with synagogues, schools and Jewish camps to provide solar cookers to the Iridimi and
Touloum camps in Chad. JWW also brings toys for children, builds water wells and builds medical clinics
to help people in these and other camps.
Act Out Loud: The Darfur Action Tour
Darfur Facts Game – 4th-5th grades
Answer: Go to school
Explanation: Children in the camps consider themselves very lucky if they can go to school. Not every
camp has a school, and school in the camps doesn’t look like school does here. There aren’t any desks
or classrooms, and definitely no computers. But the children want to be there anyway, because learning
means they can continue having lives and makes them hopeful about the future.
Answer: Malnutrition
Explanation: Malnutrition is when someone doesn’t have enough food, or the food that they do have
doesn’t have enough vitamins for a healthy person. Sometimes it is hard for us to imagine, because we
get to eat whenever we are hungry, and we always know that our meal time will be soon. Many people in
Darfur – adults and children – don’t have enough to eat.
Answer: Rice and lentils
Explanation: There isn’t a lot to eat in the camps. The refugees have to get their food from international
people who have come to help them. The food that does come into the camps is all dried, like rice and
beans, because it has to be able to last a long time to survive the long trip to Darfur.
Answer: 8-10 liters a day
Explanation: This is about 2 or 2 ½ gallons of water a day, which isn’t a lot for a person when you think
about what you need for drinking, cooking and washing! Remember, Darfur and Chad are in a desert, so
it’s really, really hot! Water is the most important substance people need to live
Answer: A solar cooker
Explanation: A solar cooker is a light and small tool that turns sunlight into heat to cook. People can also
use firewood, but there isn’t enough of it in the camps. If women leave the camps to look for firewood,
they’re in danger of being attacked or hurt. Using a solar cooker means they don’t need as much wood.
Act Out Loud: The Darfur Action Tour
Darfur Facts Game – 4th-5th grades
Answer: 15,000-20,000 people
Explanation: People go to the refugee camps for safety, and to get the food, medicine and shelter they
can’t get on their own. The UN and other groups do their best to provide the refugees with as much as
they can, but it’s very hard to help so many people at once. That’s why the refugees need your help too!
Answer: Write a letter to President Bush!
Explanation: Believe it or not, President Bush works for us. And that means that when we want him to do
something – like help the people in Darfur – he needs US to tell him to do it. So tell him – write a letter to
President Bush, and tell him to help the people in Darfur NOW!