IDPs in Blue Nile: emergency water and hygiene for families

Sudan | 2024 | CBPF

Sudan, Blue Nile state. “We arrived with nothing but the clothes we wore. We had no money to buy soap or water bottles,” explains Fatima Suleiman, who fled to Damazine with her children following intense fighting in the west of Blue Nile state.

After more than two years of conflict, Sudan has become one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. Armed conflict and attacks against civilians, displacement, hunger, malnutrition, disease, and climate shocks have left nearly two-thirds of the population in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and protection.

Arriving alongside thousands of others since the war began, the city of Damazine was under strain – healthcare, sanitation, and public health are threatened. Fatima and her children were sheltering with hundreds of others at a primary school when they accessed some essential supplies.

The help is basic, but it makes a difference for families in distress.

“Now at least, I can fetch and store water in these jerry cans. And I have a traditional Sudanese thobe to wear which can also cover my smaller children at night.”

With funding from the Sudan Humanitarian Fund, World Vision helped Fatima and 350 other households newly arrived from Tadamon with some of the basics: containers to store clean water, soap, buckets, and infant potties for their small children.

Published April 2025

Based on an original story from World Vision Sudan

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