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Alaska Sudan Medical Project

Org #12396
Vetted since 2012
2008
year founded
$109,992
raised on GlobalGiving
11
years fundraising
1
projects funded
* Amounts in US Dollars

Mission

With the vision of "building hope and health for life," the Alaska Sudan Medical Project has worked in a remote, impoverished region of South Sudan since 2008 to provide health, water, sanitation and agricultural systems one of the world's newest and poorest countries. This remote region carries some of the worst and most alarming health statistics on the planet. In Jonglei State, South Sudan, where the Alaska Sudan Medical Project is working, children die needlessly of disease and malnutrition. The infant mortality rate is 1,700 deaths per 100,000 births. Nearly 20% of the people suffer from chronic hunger and only 10% of the children have received full childhood immunizati... read more

Project Leaders
Todd Hardesty
Todd Hardesty
Team
Todd Hardesty
Organization Information
PO Box 230183
Anchorage, ALASKA 99523
United States
907 244-7762
Organization Information
PO Box 230183
Anchorage, ALASKA 99523
United States
907 244-7762

Project Reports

Each of GlobalGiving’s nonprofit partners is required to send quarterly donor reports detailing the impact of their work. Here are some of their recent updates:

Fighting Famine Amidst Sudan War Crisis

By Todd Hardesty | Executive Director

The war in Sudan has been raging now for more than 100 days.  Attempts for a truce, ceasefires, pleas from around the world to bring the war to an end, have all faltered. As people flee the... Read the full report ›

War in Sudan - Refugees Create New Crisis

By Todd Hardesty | Executive Director

For most of the world, the war in Sudan is just another distant conflict. But for us, an NGO working in the northern part of South Sudan, it throws an already fragile humanitarian situation into... Read the full report ›

The Promise of Spring and Rice

By Todd Hardesty | Executive Director

Passing through the market at Old Fangak you see many women selling vegetables and fruits.  Tomatoes, onions, melons, okra, eggplant. Most spread their harvest on coverings alongside the dirt... Read the full report ›
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