Our work in Sudan
We are one of the largest international charities working in Sudan and we have reached millions of people, most of whom are children, through our life-saving emergency interventions.
In 2024, we reached over 3.1 million people, including over 1.7 million children.
Our team, alongside local partners, work tirelessly to implement a wide range of programmes to support children and families:
- We’re running mobile health clinics in the camps for displaced people and providing nutrition supplements for malnourished children
- We’re responding to a major outbreak of cholera and have established 3 treatment centres to provide critical support to children and their families
- Between February and March 2025, we arranged six cargo flights of 200 metric tonnes of life saving medical supplies. A further 60 metric tonnes of nutrition supplies were brought in via the seaport
- We’re providing cash grants to families to help them buy food, medicines and other essentials to address the worsening food insecurity situation
- We’re currently supporting 400 schools across the country. So far, we have supported over 45,000 children through formal education and about 37,000 children through non-formal education
- We also offer games and activities for children in safe spaces, such as dancing, drawing and sports to overcome their negative experiences. These safe spaces and play activities also relieve pressure off parents and help them to manage their stress
Meet Sara, who was born at one of our Mobile Clinic
Asma*, 30 holds her newborn baby Sara*, 4 days old at a mobile clinic, Sudan
Meet Asma*, 30, whi fled Sinja, Sudan, with her six children after violence erupted in June 2024. Heavily pregnant, she walked for nearly two months to reach safety in Gedaref. Her husband was left behind, and she still doesn’t know if he’s alive—or that he has a newborn daughter.
At the IDP Reception Centre, Asma gave birth at Save the Children’s mobile health clinic—the first delivery at the site. She named her baby Sara, after the doctor who helped her.
Save the Children provided Asma with medical care, a bed, a heater, and essentials for her newborn. But her other children still sleep without mattresses, and medicine is hard to find.
“I wish for peace,” she said. “For the war to end, and for us to return home.”
*Name changed to protect identity.
