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8/7/2019 SUDAN Community Development - Tearfund New Zealand
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SUDAN
ABOUT SUDANSudan is the largest country in Africa. It has a tumultuous past bound up in
invasions and explorations over rumours of hidden treasure. War has turned
a nation once rich in reserves of ivory, gold, spices and incense, to one of
extreme poverty with a large question mark over its future.
A variety of factors including decades of marginalising the poor, recurrent
drought, lack of investment and development and weak governance have
led to a number of crises and conicts.
A civil war in the South and the continuing bloodshed in Darfur have killed
millions and created approximately six million refugees. Sudan now has the
world’s largest population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Even with continued revenues from oil and the gradual resumption of
development aid, Sudan’s future remains uncertain. The nation is extremely
vulnerable politically and economically, and dealing effectively with IDPs wil l
be essential to its survival.
TEAR FUND IN SUDAN
Sudan is one of TEAR Fund’s disaster relief focuses. Two major issues in Sudan are
the crisis in Darfur and the North/South war that has created a huge number of
internally displaced persons (IDPs).
TEAR Fund supports three complimentary disaster relief projects in Sudan:
Medair’s IDP Project in Khar toum State, Tearfund UK’s Wadi Salih and Ed Daein
Projects. Support for these projects has come from a combination of fundraising
campaigns and grants from the New Zealand Government.
The Wadi Salih Integrated Relief Project is helping to strengthen the capacity of
22 communities to manage and sustain recovery and peace-building activities
through Village Development Committees. Around 58,500 people are being
provided with reliable and sustainable access to safe water and sanitation facilities
through the construction of wells and latrines.
Education encompasses water management, personal hygiene, and increasing the
knowledge of good health behaviours for 5,000 women, 28,000 children, 700
youth and 600 men. The project also focuses on increasing food production and
tree growth through supporting 12,000 farmers in the area.
TEAR Fund UK’s Disaster Management Team has been operating in multiplelocations within Sudan since 1998 and in Darfur since 2004. The Wadi Salih
Project is helping to make a difference to people in dire need.
QUICK FACTS
Full name: Republic of Sudan
Population: 39,379,358
Capital:
Khartoum
Area:
2,505,813 sq km, (987,495 sq miles)
Major languages: Arabic & English
Major religion: Muslim (70%), Animist / Indigenous
(20-25%), Christian (5-10%)
Life expectancy: 48 (men), 50 (women)
Monetary unit: Sudanese pound Main exports: Oil and petroleum products;
cotton, sesame, livestock,
groundnuts, gum, Arabic sugar
Call to donate: 0800 800 777 or visit www.tearfund.org.nz
Community Development Changing Lives