World Vision focuses on feeding in Darfur

Ongoing violence has seen millions of Sudanese, like 14-month-old Nadia, flee their homes.

As the situation in Sudan intensifies and concerns for the population escalate, World Vision is helping feed Darfur’s often-forgotten Internally Displaced People (IDPs).

World Vision last month distributed more than 2,400 tons of food provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) around Nyala, in south Darfur (western Sudan's troubled region), as well as in other war-affected settlements across the region.

The food distributions consist rations that include sorghum, wheat, oil, sugar, salt, corn-soya-blend and pulses (peas and lentils).

In one of the largest IDP camps in south Sudan, Otash, World Vision is providing food to families in need.

“I arrived in Otash camp two years ago, when militia attacked our village and stole all our property,” said mother-of-five Hawa Jamous.

“My children and I are mainly dependent on the food given to us by World Vision so I am very thankful,” she said.

Since 2003, when pro-government militia known as Janjaweed began terrorising the people of Darfur, millions have fled their homes to avoid rape, torture and murder. Most now struggle to survive in makeshift camps like Otash, where disease, starvation and misery are rife.

Rebels have fought the Janjaweed for the past three years, and a peace deal brokered earlier this year appears irrelevant as President Omar al-Bashir has refused to allow a United Nations peacekeeping force into the country to supervise and enforce it.

World Vision distributes food to about 250,000 people across south Darfur and in rebel-controlled areas to the northeast and south.

Click here to donate now to help feed the displaced people of Darfur, or call 0800 800 776.