By Charlotte Allum | Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator
The Hungry Months, as our families in Darfur call them, mark the seeming eternity that stretches from the day last year's crop runs out, to the day the next crop is harvested. This is roughly from April to July each year, depending on how much rain falls.
Families in remote villages in Darfur are subsistence farmers, living off whatever they can grow from the land.
But this year ongoing violence, which erupted over a year ago, has exacerbated an already fragile situation. Crops have not been planted. Very little is growing. Families are struggling desperately to survive.
The UN has warned that Sudan faces the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today - despite all the terrible news from other regions.
In Darfur, children are already dying from starvation.
The situation is utterly heart-breaking. But we are doing all we can to help. We are desperate to provide emergency supplies - sorghum and millet - so urgently needed right now. Hand pump repair kits too will enable much-used hand pumps to provide life-saving clean water again. We need to get aid to remote villages before the heavy rains start and make the desert impassable.
We will do whatever we can, so long as it is safe to do so. Volunteers in Darfur are working with us so we can give urgently needed aid.
Please can you help? There is no one else helping the children in these villages.
Today - July 10th 2024 - is GlobalGiving's Bonus Day - GlobalGiving will give us FREE money if you donate today.
Any donation over $100 made between 9:00AM EDT and 11:59 PM EDT today, July 10th 2024, will be matched at the below rates by GlobalGiving.
- Donations between $100 - $499 USD are matched at 20% (e.g. your donation of $100 will become $120)
- Donations between $500 - $749 USD are matched at 30% (e.g. your donation of $500 will become $650)
- Donations between $750 - $1,000 USD are matched at 40% (e.g. your donation of $1,000 will become $1,400!)
Please donate whatever you can to help us save children's lives in Darfur. Thank you for all your support.
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