CARE Canada

Published purpose

March 2021 - An estimated 13.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection across Sudan as a result of armed conflict, food insecurity, malnutrition, economic decline and disease. Up to 2.5 million people are internally displaced within the country. Instability around Sudan’s borders has also led to more than 1.1 million people seeking refuge in Sudan, including asylum seekers from Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Syria. With GAC’s support, CARE Canada is providing emergency water, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition and health assistance for up to 144,173 conflict-affected people in Sudan’s East and South Darfur states. Project activities include: (1) providing sexual, reproductive and maternal health services to out-of-camp refugee, internally displaced and host communities; (2) maintaining water supply infrastructure in three refugee camps; (3) supporting the operation and maintenance of Outpatient Therapeutic Program and Target Supplementary Feeding Program sites, improving nutrition outcomes for children and pregnant and lactating women; and (4) providing immunization services for children under the age of five.