Crisis in Sudan: How to Help

It's being called the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Here's how to help victims of mass violence in Sudan.

Since 2003, the massacre of African Muslims by Arab Muslims in Darfur, a Texas-sized region in the African nation of Sudan, has resulted in more than 400,000 deaths and 2.5 million displaced people. And despite a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the largest Darfur rebel group, the killings, mass rapes, plundering, and crop-burning continues.

A woman and child camp under
a tree in Chad. Photo courtesy of
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.



How the Largest Advocacy Group Is Helping:

In a multifaith effort to advocate for an end of the genocide, the

Save Darfur Coalition

provides information on how to organize and attend an event, lobby elected officials, and educate others about Darfur.



Save Darfur Coalition

What Relief Groups Are Doing and How You Can Get Involved:


Hundreds of thousands fled to neighboring Chad. Relief groups have been struggling to provide food, refugee camps, water, and sanitation for the homeless Sudanese.



Doctors Without Borders

Mercy Corps

Send contributions to Mercy Corps Dept. W, PO Box 2669, Portland, OR 97208-2669 or call: (800) 292.3355 ext. 250



Save the Children

CARE

World Vision

Catholic Relief Services

American Jewish World Service

Islamic Relief

International Red Cross/Red Crescent


The following groups are working through a partnership of

Action by Churches Together and Caritas Internationalis

:



United Methodist Committee on Relief

Give through your local United Methodist church or send contributions to: UMCOR, 475 Riverside Dr. Room 330, New York, NY 10115


Call 1-800-554-8583 to make a credit card donation.



Lutheran World Relief

Give through your local church or send contributions to: Lutheran World Relief - Darfur/Sudan Crisis, PO Box 17061, Baltimore, MD 21298-9832


Call 1-800-LWR-LWR-2 to make a credit card donation.



Caritas Internationalis
Sudan relief overview


Donate through your Catholic parish



Sudanese families list victims' names and dates of death.
Photo courtesy of U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum.



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