December 17–18, 2022 | West Darfur, Sudan WEST DARFUR, SUDAN — In the final weeks of 2022, before war would change everything, 150 orphaned students in West Darfur received something simple and profound: a new school backpack, filled with notebooks, pens, and pencils — and with it, the message that they were not forgotten. Over two days, December 17 and 18, 2022, the Darfur Network for Development (DND), in partnership with the Innovation Society for Human Development (ISHD