Tribune News Network
Doha
Within a year and a half of the escalating crisis in Sudan, Qatar Charity (QC) has continued its extensive humanitarian interventions across various sectors to alleviate the suffering of displaced people and families affected by the ongoing conflict in 12 Sudanese states.
With generous support from the people of Qatar, the organisation has implemented a series of humanitarian aid projects in food security, health care, non-food items, women and children, water and sanitation, amounting to a total of approximately 5,405 tonnes of aid, benefiting more than 1,325,770 displaced individuals.
With funding from the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), Qatar Charity delivered hundreds of tonnes of aid through three aerial bridges, which included food supplies, medicines, medical equipment, and shelter materials. These supplies were distributed to the neediest beneficiaries as part of Qatar Charity’s ongoing humanitarian response efforts.
In the early months of the crisis, Qatar Charity provided 125,000 hot meals to displaced people and those stranded in shelters in Port Sudan and the Arqin border crossing on the Sudanese-Egyptian border. This intervention had a significant impact in alleviating the suffering of the displaced.
Qatar Charity distributed a total of 87,092 food baskets to affected families across Sudan’s various states. Each basket contained essential food items for the displaced. A total of 522,552 people benefited from these food assistance projects, particularly in the safe areas of Khartoum. As part of the largest food security intervention of its kind in the conflict-affected regions of Sudan, Qatar Charity, with funding from the Qatar Fund for Development, distributed 50,000 food baskets to the affected families.
As concerns grew about the critical shortage of life-saving medications for cancer and kidney failure patients, Qatar Charity responded immediately by launching an aerial bridge that delivered 62 tonnes of essential, hard-to-find medicines.
Sudan’s Minister of Health Dr Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim confirmed that Qatar Charity was the first to deliver cancer medications to the country since the onset of the war, addressing the dire situation where cancer treatments had run out for 18,000 patients.
He noted that the medical supplies provided through Qatar Charity’s aerial bridge would significantly meet the needs of around 8,000 kidney dialysis patients across Sudan.
Qatar Charity has also prioritised essential services for the displaced, including providing clean drinking water, supervising the chlorination of drinking water, and distributing hygiene and sanitation supplies in displacement centres.
