How to Help the People of Sudan
June was a month of violence in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, as peaceful pro-civilian protesters were attacked in the streets by paramilitaries. More than 100 people are estimated to have died and hundreds were injured.
As the Guardian columnist Nesrin Malik writes:
The country is still in shock. In its capital, Khartoum, an atmosphere of commemoration reigns: the dead, the raped and the beaten are counted. The missing and presumed dead are haunted by social media as their families prepare for the opportunity to see their loved ones bloated and washed ashore the Nile, where victims of the Janjaweed (notorious Sudanese militia) are still appearing.
The full extent of this horror remains to be revealed. When graphic videos of the violence began circulating, the government shut down the Internet, plunging the country into a darkness that still remains as the Janjaweed continues their campaign to take over the state.
Many in support of the protesters took to social media to talk about the crisis using the hashtag #BlueForSudan. But if you want to go beyond social media solidarity, you can support several organizations that will use your funds to help the Sudanese people.
UNICEF Sudan
For over 70 years, the United Nations Children’s Fund has carried out humanitarian programs in 190 territories and countries, including Sudan.
According to a statement posted on the UNICEF website last week, the organization will continue to “provide millions of children, including displaced persons or refugees, with vaccines, safe water, treatment for severe acute malnutrition and psychological support.”
Save the children
Save the Children has worked in Sudan since 1984, helping children and their families affected by conflict, displacement, extreme poverty, hunger and lack of basic services.
Donate to Save the Children here .
Khartoum University Alumni Association in North America
UOKANA exists to connect Khartoum alumni and each other, support the university’s mission, and provide a forum for networking among alumni in the United States. He is running a Facebook fundraiser to raise $ 500,000 to “provide food, water and health care. for the people of Sudan at this critical time in the country’s history. “
Donate to UOKANA on Facebook here .
Other ways to help
If you don’t have free funds to donate, but you still want to help, here’s how to do it:
- Call your representatives and tell them you want them to help the people of Sudan.
- Sign this petition on Change.org, which calls on the United Nations to investigate human rights violations by the military in the Sudan “because the Sudanese people believe that the Military Transitional Council is unable” to investigate on its own.
We will continue to update this list as new resources become available.