Save the Children Receives $1 Million Gates Foundation Grant to Assist Displaced Families in West Darfur

WESTPORT, CT -- Save the Children announced today that it has received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a water and sanitation project in West Darfur, Sudan. The grant will help the agency provide sanitation facilities and clean drinking water to more than 55,000 displaced children and family members forced to flee their homes and live in temporary shelters due to continued violence.

To read the full press release, visit the Save the Children Web site.