Your generous donation can provide children and families affected by Sudan crisis, as well as other disasters across the world, with life-saving essentials like food, water and crucial mental health support. It can also help create lasting change through longer term programmes to alleviate poverty and the chronic impact of climate change.
What's happening in Sudan?
In April 2023, violent conflict broke out in Sudan, triggering violence and instability across the country and the wider region, tearing apart millions of children’s lives.
Today, more than 15 million children in Sudan need support to overcome the horrifying impacts of this conflict. They’ve seen their homes, hospitals, playgrounds and schools bombed, looted and occupied. They’ve lost loved ones and been subject to unspeakable violence. They’ve been cut off from the very basics like food, shelter, and healthcare.
Sudan is now the largest child displacement crisis in the world, with 6.5 million children uprooted from their homes as a result of the ongoing conflict.
Sudan is also facing one of the world's worst hunger crises. 11.6 million children are facing crisis levels of hunger.
Despite the staggering levels of need, this crisis is not getting the attention it deserves. Children are witnessing or experiencing unimaginable violence - things no child should ever face. There is an unprecedented lack of funding and critical lack of humanitarian access.
“It pains me to see children arriving without parents or family members at the border, but I find joy in being part of the Save the Children team working to reunite them with their families and make them laugh and play." Monica*, a Save the Children caseworker in Sudan. *Name changed
Latest Update
Latest escalation in El Fasher, North Darfur:
After more than 500 days under siege, the city of El Fasher has reportedly fallen under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), marking a significant turning point in the ongoing conflict between RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). This has led to mass displacement and unimaginable suffering.
Over 260,000 people, including 130,000 children, remain trapped in El Fasher, facing famine-like conditions, no access to healthcare, and no safe way out.
- Families escaping face extreme danger, including violence and robbery along escape routes.
- Mothers and children have walked for days to reach Tawila, 70km away, without food or water.
- A 20-mile wall continues to block escape routes, leaving families extremely vulnerable.
In El Fasher, we faced such difficulties and such circumstances. We lost family members, we lost neighbours, we lost everyone.
We've been walking for the past four days from El Fasher. A group of motorbike rides met us on the way. They took our luggage and threw our clothes and belongings onto thorn bushes, scattering everything along the road. They took my money and even my phone! I was beaten - my ear still hurts.
They beat [up] some people and battered them in front of us. They killed people and insulted us a lot.
Saadiya*, Mother of 3
Why monthly donations are important
In 2024, we reached more than 3.1 million people, including more than 1.7 million children in Sudan. But now more than ever, children in Sudan and around the world need your help.
By giving monthly you can help us to be by a child's side within days, whenever disaster strikes.
Your monthly gift will mean that our teams can provide continuous support, offering vital food, healthcare and education to children in urgent need around the world. It also allows us to support children as they move out of survival mode and begin to start living again.
With a monthly donation, you can make a lasting impact on the lives of children in Sudan and around the world.
How we're helping children in Sudan
Along with our partners, we remain dedicated to providing life-saving assistance to families who continue to be impacted by this crisis.
Health and nutrition
- Running mobile health clinics in camps for displaced people and providing nutrition supplements for malnourished children
- Set up treatment centres to respond to a major cholera outbreak
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
- Working to ensure access to clean water, sanitation facilities and hygiene promotion activities to prevent the spread of disease in the affected areas
Education
- Set up accelerated learning programmes across the country to ensure children can continue their education
- Providing alternative learning opportunities for children to catch up on missed classes.
Psychosocial support
- Offering games and activities for children in safe spaces to help them to overcome their negative experiences.
- Identify cases of children with severe signs of trauma, and referring them for specialised psychological care.
Tawila and Jabal Marra
Save the Children has rapidly scaled up operations in Tawila and Jabal Marra, reaching over 224,000 displaced people.
- Operating 11 health facilities and mobile clinics
- Providing emergency shelter, food, water, and hygiene kits
We have been scaling up operations but we need a rapid escalation in funding to meet the increasing needs now. Our teams are working under extreme conditions and urgently require more support to save lives.
We’ve also been providing critical support to children in neighbouring countries, like South Sudan and Egypt.
