"I remember my very first day of interviewing in the Goz Beida refugee camp in southern Sudan. I heard a singing so I went to the edge of the camp. Out in desert field, I saw twenty women dressed traditional Tobes. They were singing in unison, uprooting the land, so that they could plant. You have to imagine this rainbow of color, the blue, green, yellow, orange fabric of the Tobes billowing in the wind, the beautiful Sudanese women with hoes, singing out in the middle of nowhere. Here they are with nothing. But they are working and singing and they are not waiting for handouts that come in each day. They are trying to help themselves."
-Sam Totten, a genocide scholar and an Investigator for the State Department's Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project
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