Some 3.6 million people have been affected by the ongoing crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan . This includes 1.8 million children who have known nothing but violence, disease and hunger most or all of their young lives. Many have been displaced multiple times as a result of attacks by the brutal militias.

The environment of extreme lack, terror and instability threatens to permanently scar this generation of children, undermining their future potential and trapping them in a desperate cycle of poverty and dependence.

African American Self-Help Foundation and its sister organizations in the US and Europe are among the only organizations still active in the most remote areas of Darfur , where both the danger and the needs of the people are greatest. The United Nations estimates that half of the Darfuri refugees have yet to receive any humanitarian relief.

The needs are particularly urgent for food, mosquito nets (2,000 African children die every day from malaria), cooking utensils and plastic or canvas sheets for shelter. For $45, we can provide a survival kit to meet the survival needs of a Darfuri family. However, reaching the isolated areas where the needs are most desperate is difficult and expensive. Please consider adding something to your gift to help with these costs.

To be taken to our secure on-line giving page, please click here. >>