Save the Children continues to provide ongoing support to some 500,000 displaced children and families in Sudan’s West Darfur State each month. Our donor-driven programs include making food and clean water available, health care and emergency obstetrical care for women, protection for children and women, education, and livelihoods training in camps and neighboring communities throughout West Darfur.

Latest updates:

West Darfur

3,532.841 MT of food commodities were distributed to 330,913 beneficiaries in 31 locations in the month of August.
262 Children (145 male and 117 female) were referred to health clinics this month for treatment.
385 women received Fuel Efficient Stove trainings. 628 stoves were built, 128 were given to EVIs.
13,493 outpatients were treated at Save the Children health facilities in August; 48% were children under 5.
3,609 women visited Save the Children clinics for ante-natal care. 513 women came for post-natal care services.
604 beneficiaries are currently enrolled in Nutrition Programs, 101 in the Outpatient Therapeutic Program, and 459 children and 44 pregnant and lactating women in the Supplementary Feeding Program.
229,555 conflict affected people receive safe water through the existing WATSAN infrastructure.
2469 farmers benefited from 35 agricultural extension training sessions.

North Darfur

2, 496 children (1,297 boys & 1,199 girls) have been enrolled in 8 schools
9 Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) are under construction in 2 camps.

Nuba Mountains/Abyei

In Nuba, 84 DDR children received follow up visits and 60 followed up cases are in schools.
5 youth and children clubs (YCC) received training on Child Protection and CRC.
During the month of August, Save the Children nutrition outreach workers screened 2220 children under 5.
1737 beneficiaries from 329 returnee households in 14 villages received non-food item
In Abyei, 552.86 metric tones of food distributed to 31,216 people in 11 villages.
A total of 22 new cases of vulnerable children identified and registered, pending reunification

Khartoum

676 new children (371 Boys and 305 girls) have enrolled for basic school grade one
Save the Children Sweden held its first Youth Forum meeting.

Blue Nile State – Save the Children Sweden

The education team starts debating with ECD sector to identify and select the 10 Early Child Development centers

Work in the field:

Hunger Relief

Save the Children distributed 2,803 tons of food to 321,825 children and adults in 27 locations.
In preparation for the pre-positioning of food commodities prior to the rainy season, we provided plastic sheeting at 33 of the 44 camps where we have food programs. Shelters also were completed, rehabilitated or were being constructed in numerous other camps.
Save the Children conducted two trainings in several locations for local staff and local Food Distribution Committees.

Nutrition

Our Outpatient Therapeutic Program and Supplementary Feeding Program continue to benefit malnourished children who are referred to our programs by trained community members and by those who help run activities at our children’s centers.

Primary Health

Save the Children facilities treated 13,236 outpatients in May, nearly half of whom were children under age 5.
Vaccinations were administered to 3,969 people.
We held a five-day training workshop on emergency obstetric care that was attended by 26 midwives, members of another health organization and staff from the Ministry of Health.
There were 339 babies born at our reproductive health facilities in May; women also made over 4,400 antenatal and post-natal visits.

Protection for Children

Daily attendance at our children’s centers in West Darfur camps averaged 7,359 girls and boys.
We opened our 38th center in May in Fur Baranga.
During May, staff at the centers referred 232 children to health centers for treatment and 18 severely malnourished children were referred to our therapeutic feeding programs.
We also monitored the status of 519 girls and boys whom we considered to be extremely vulnerable; over 300 received our assistance and material support.
Our art therapy specialist continued to work with over 250 children in the Riyadh Camp. Six animators at our child centers there were trained in toy making and drawing to ensure continuity as the specialist moves to other camps.

Protection for Women

Save the Children continues to call attention to gender-based violence and assist women victims. During May, we assisted 37 women who had suffered gender-based violence and referred two very vulnerable survivors of violence for health care at hospitals. We also held 21 workshops on the subject in May, reaching over 500 women, staff, community leaders and staff of other nongovernmental organizations working in West Darfur.
At our women’s centers, some 1,363 women and older girls attended literacy training.
Over 600 other women attended sessions on making fuel-efficient stoves for cooking.
We provided clothing to over 850 extremely vulnerable women in four camps near Geniena.

Education

With children on school vacation until July, Save the Children has focused on improving school infrastructures and renovating or repairing semi-permanent schools in camps in West Darfur. We replaced the roofs over 26 classrooms and continued construction of eight new classrooms, two offices and latrines at a school in Um Shalaya Camp. We also started construction of a new classroom in Mornei Camp and neared completion of the Azerni Basic School for Girls.
Save the Children also expanded our education program into the Beida locality and will be supporting two basic schools that enroll 1,800 children.
We continued to hold meetings of Parent-Teacher Associations and parents to raise awareness of the value of education, the importance of educating girls, school improvement plans and how parents can support their children’s studies.

Livelihoods

Save the Children organized 50 agricultural extension trainings for rainy season crop cultivation that reached over 7,800 adults in 16 villages in and around Mornei and Um Shalaya.
Over 88,000 plant seedlings were planted in Mornei and Habila.
173 youth graduated from our vocational skills training program in Mornei; registration for new training is ongoing. Another 229 youth are attending vocational training in Krenik.

Camp Management and Coordination

In Fur Baranga, we organized a group of community leaders to help indentify extremely vulnerable individuals; as a result, we distributed plastic sheeting, sleeping mats, and women’s clothing. In response to calls from the community for improved health and education facilities and vocational training for youth, Save the Children is contacting other service providers to explore possible interventions.

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