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Eid Al Fitr in Chad

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  • Young boys take turns to cut each other's hair in preparation for the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month long fasting period of Ramadan at the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. The refugee camp, which is near the Sudanese border, shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered. Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, nearly all of the families in the sprawling Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr. Many of the Sudanese refugees went to services at an improvised mosque; afterward, the imam led a procession around the camp, singing songs and delivering periodic homilies to segregated groups of men and women. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by going to services at an improvised mosque; afterward, the imam led a procession around the camp, singing songs and delivering periodic homilies (shown here). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 63).
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, nearly all of the families in the sprawling Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr. Many of the Sudanese refugees went to services at an improvised mosque; afterward, the imam led a procession around the camp, singing songs and delivering periodic homilies to segregated groups of men and women. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Food is distributed free of charge by the United Nations WFP (World Food Program), but here in this camp market at the end of Ramadan, large numbers of watermelons are sold for the feast at the end of this month long Muslim holiday. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered (shown here). Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 62).
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered. Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Gathering in the shade of several large trees at the edge of a wadi in Eastern Chad, a group of Muslim worshipers gather to listen to an imam during the last few days of Ramadan near their village. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. This boy is getting ready for the feast to celebrate the end of Ramadan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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