The United Nations estimates that as many as 10,000 mothers, children, wives and husbands are dying each month in Darfur as a result of violence, disease or malnutrition. More than 2 million people are displaced within Sudan, and another 200,000 have fled to neighboring Chad.
In spite of the danger, CARE is committed to helping people make it through this crisis:
- CARE has more than 400 staff on the ground in Darfur and Chad
- CARE is distributing emergency food to more than 300,000 refugees each month
- We're also providing water and sanitation for some 265,000 people
- Each month, 66 malnurished children receive lifesaving help at our theraputic feeding centers
- Since December 2004, some 13,000 women received reproductive heath care and more than 17,000 children, women and men have taken advantage of everything from acute care to nutritional screening and immunizations
- This vital work must continue until peace returns
- Click here to learn more about CARE's response
Won't you please help today?
The peace agreement reached last January between the government of Sudan and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) was a positive and significant step. So was the decision by the U.N. Security Council to provide support for the implementation of the peace accords. But more must be done.
The United Nations must now move rapidly to deploy the 10,000 peacekeepers it has promised to monitor the peace, protect civilians and enforce adherence to the accord's protocols.
The international community must make good on its commitment to raise financial resources. The Sudanese people, the African Union and others in the international community must take urgent and immediate steps to end the continuing violent conflict in Darfur.
Sudan has the highest internally displaced population in the world. Every day that people remain displaced from their homes means that crops aren't being planted, children aren't being educated, families are being separated and human rights abuses are going unchecked.
Make your donation now to save lives in Sudan and around the world!
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