CAFOD

SUDAN EMERGENCY APPEAL

April marked three years since the conflict began in Sudan. Our brothers and sisters are facing what is officially the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.  It’s a crisis that may not be in the headlines but it continues to devastate millions of lives.  CAFOD is still there, working with the local Catholic Church to provide food, safe water and vital support to families fleeing violence. Violence in Sudan has expanded and now 13.6 million people have fled their homes. Our Church partners remain supporting families in Sudan, while many other charities have been forced to leave. This has become a terrible, long-term emergency. And yet news broadcasts report so little of the suffering and the urgent support needed.  

Kayode Akintola, Head of Region – Africa, recently spent four days with CAFOD partners and the Church in Sudan.   He shares this message:

“Our sisters and brothers affected by the ongoing war in Sudan feel abandoned. The gap between overwhelming needs and available support is massive. Communities are increasingly cut off from essential services. Mothers carry children on their backs, young women and men search desperately for water where wells have long run dry, hunger is everywhere.

“But our partner Caritas Sudan, alongside other local organisations, is providing food, cash assistance, safe water, nutrition and more. They are saving lives every day.”

 Our donations can help with:

  • hygiene kits
  • food packages
  • chlorine tablets to make water safe
  • building toilets to stop disease spreading
  • supporting a medical outreach team
  • repairing damaged water pipelines
  • setting up a 24-hour malnutrition treatment centre
  • getting safe water to a whole community.

All donations made via the CAFOD Red Box at St. Thomas’ will return to supporting this Appeal.   Gift Aid envelopes are available in the church porch.  

THANK YOU to all who supported the Middle East Humanitarian Appeal in the month of April.   A total of £93 was donated, helping vulnerable families in Lebanon affected by the war in the Middle East.