Plan works in regions where persistent drought has resulted in several years of poor harvests and shortages of safe drinking water. There are few public health facilities and a lack of medicines. Sanitation systems are poor. Plan's major challenges in these regions are improvements in health, general living conditions and providing educational and training opportunities.
Sample projects

The stories and information below illustrate how Plan is working with communities to help people not only fulfil their basic needs, but to build a sustainable future, for generations.

The feeding programme has two sectors. The first being the Supplementary Feeding Programme in which all the children in the district between the ages of 6 months and 5 years are admitted. The children need to be weight and measured so that the nutritionist can then calculate the weight for height percentage. If the weight for height (WFH) percentage is between 70% and 80%, the child can be admitted into the Supplementary Feeding Programme.
Once a week the children can come at the SFC in their designated location, where they receive a reasonable quantity

Recipient: Sudan Future Care Health Clinics
Shipment Date: 10/29/2002 Value: $31,000
Over the past two decades, war in Sudan between Christians and animists in the south and Arab-Muslims of the north, and intermittent widespread famine, have cost the lives of over 1.5 million people, displaced millions more Sudanese, and virtually eliminated healthcare services in remote parts of the country. Sudan Future Care is a non-governmental organization comprised of Sudanese healthcare professionals and concerned individuals working to provide health services to displaced people living

NAIROBI - The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that unless donors came forward with urgent contributions, the victims of fighting in Northern Uganda would soon face severe food shortages leading to unprecedented hunger.
WFP urgently needs 18,000 tons of food to help feed over half a million people until the end of the year. Most of those in need are displaced people or refugees, who are living in destitution due to the prevailing insecurity in Adjumani, Gulu, Kitgum and Pader districts.

There has been a sharp increase in fighting

An accord signed recently by the Government of the Sudan and the main rebel movement is paving the way for expanded United Nations relief operations in the country, a UN spokesman announced today.
A new polio campaign aimed at reaching children who have never been immunized is part of the expanded humanitarian push in the war-ravaged nation under the agreement on access signed over the weekend, spokesman Fred Eckhard told the press in New York.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) calculates that unhindered humanitarian access will enable it to provide aid to an

by Joelle Bassoul

KHARTOUM, Oct 29 (AFP) - The main northern opposition groups in Sudan are divided over the merits of the ongoing peace talks between southern rebels and the Khartoum government but agree their exclusion would invalidate any accord.

Umma, the main opposition party of the north led by former prime minister Sadek al-Mahdi, said it would welcome an accord at the talks in Kenya to end 19 years of civil war.

But it insists on the north's participation. "Umma is in favour of peace and we are exerting every efforts to intervene

At a glance
Key issues affecting children

Conflict affects approximately 3.15 million children in Sudan. Displacement, separation from families, physical injury and distress are all consequences of conflict.

Children in large parts of the country are vulnerable to chronic or acute food insecurity because of conflict, climate and poor infrastructure.

Unclean water sources and poor sanitary and living conditions are a serious threat to the health of many of Sudan's poorest children.

Poverty, lack of resources and inadequate

by Joelle Bassoul

AL-SALAM CAMP, Sudan, Oct 28 (AFP) - Samia Nour, holding her three-year-old daughter Awatef, sits on a blanket on a dirt floor in a medical center run by aid organizations, and joins other women in a song about clean water.

Awatef, who is suffering from malnutrition and dysentery, has spent three months in this nutritional and medical center at al-Salam camp, south of Omdurman, a suburb of Khartoum.

Nour and her daughter are among the 250,000 residents of four camps for displaced people around Khartoum.

They are just a part of the two million

NAIROBI, 25 October (IRIN) - The Sudanese government has claimed southern rebels have violated an agreed truce, putting in doubt the future of peace talks to bring an end to the country's 19-year civil war.
"If the GOS [Government of Sudan] troops are compelled to intervene or [are] thus drawn in any new fighting over there, this could do away with the MOU [Memorandum of Understanding] altogether," a statement from the Sudanese embassy in Nairobi said.

According to the statement, the forces of a rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A)-allied militia