Update*: Emergency Relief Arrives to Help the Starving in Sudan
Samaritan’s Purse is rushing food aid into southern Sudan where hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are at risk of starvation after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. In a matter of weeks, monsoon season will turn roads into swamps, cutting off further aid for as long as five months.
Mothers are concerned for the well-being of their children and families as the lean months approach.
Millions have fled in recent months following a year-long armed conflict.
A woman receives a health and nutrition screening as crowded villages in the Kordofan region of Sudan face trying times ahead.
Families in the Kordofan region are living in handmade dwellings scattered across the dry region awaiting the rainy season. Roads will soon be impassable.
The remote region of Kordofan, Sudan, has swelled in population since conflict broke out in the country a year ago. This deeply impoverished area saw an influx of 700,000 desperate people looking for refuge, amplifying the population’s already dire food situation.
To worsen the crisis, the most recent harvest of sorghum—the region’s staple—was devastated by drought and swarms of locusts, which eliminated 40 per cent of their usual food supply. With nowhere to turn, people rummage the muddy ground and barren trees for seeds, weeds, branches, and leaves to consume.
Samaritan’s Purse is sending truckloads of food to the people of the Kordofan region in Jesus’ Name. Each convoy, comprised of 16 truckloads, is carrying about 800 metric tonnes of food and could save as many as 33,000 lives.
Every family is given a basket full of corn, oil, beans, and salt to sustain them through the rainy season. Additionally, we are providing special nutrient-packed peanut paste for children, who suffer the most severe consequences of prolonged malnutrition.
Samaritan’s Purse is sending food relief to the region as families face desperate times in Kordofan. Many of their crops were eaten by locusts and an influx of displaced people is straining the already impoverished communities.
As they face the lean season, these rations provided by Samaritan’s Purse will help save lives among this group of internally displaced people in the far reaches of Sudan.
However, Kordofan will soon be inaccessible as the rainy season intensifies, meaning in 4-6 weeks our trucks will be unable to reach these anguishing people.
Please prayerfully consider supporting Samaritan’s Purse as we seek to help these desperate people in Sudan—time is of the essence. We need to keep sending in trucks with more food.
Jesus tells us to look after and comfort the “least of these” among us, including those who hunger and thirst.
As we go in Jesus’ Name, pray for our staff on the ground, our local church partners, and all the people suffering in the Kordofan region.
Children are among the most vulnerable when food is scarce and the threat of malnutrition looms.
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Your Donation Makes a Difference
God has positioned Samaritan’s Purse to feed hundreds of thousands of people in Africa and other continents who are on the brink of starvation. A food basket includes: A basket full of corn, oil, beans, salt and special nutrient-packed peanut paste for children.
Help feed a person for one month
Help feed a small family for one month*
*Based on a family of 4 people
Help feed a family for one month**
**The average Sudanese household size is 7 people
“If you extend your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the afflicted soul,
Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
And your darkness shall be as the noonday."
Isaiah 58:10, NKJV
