No room for comfort and joy... when you've left everything behind to survive.
In South Sudan, Shede and thousands like her are fending off hunger and malnutrition in Wedweil Refugee Settlement. With very little to call their own, comfort and joy can seem far from their day-to-day reality.
Shede: ‘I did not come with anything. No table, no teapot, no chair, no bed. Nothing.’
It wasn’t just belongings that Shede lost as she fled the conflict in Sudan, her brothers were killed and she’s unable to make contact with her husband. Now she tries to make a temporary shelter feel like a home for the girls, but it’s hard: ‘I need clean clothes, a bed and a blanket.’
Donate to support families like Shede’s to protect themselves from hunger and malnutrition.
When families are forced to leave everything behind and every essential is unaffordable, the support programme we deliver with our partners, Smile Again Africa Development Organisation is a vital lifeline.
For Shede, it offers a rare chance to feed her youngest daughter, Saida, and granddaughter, Mariem, both aged six, a nutritious meal.
No one chooses to be a refugee, but together, we can support families to forge a new life while they wait for the end of war.
How your support makes a difference
When families are forced to leave everything behind and every essential is unaffordable, the support programme we deliver with our partners, Smile Again Africa Development Organisation is a vital lifeline.
For Shede, it offers a rare chance to feed her youngest daughter, Saida, and granddaughter, Mariem, both aged six, a nutritious meal.
No one chooses to be a refugee, but together, we can support families to forge a new life while they wait for the end of war.
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£8
or €10, could buy the 4kg bag of corn that means a family can prepare a number of filling meals.
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£30
or €36, could pay for three watering cans for families to nurture nutritious crops.
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£50
or €60, could fund the wheelbarrow that helps a community gather in their harvest.
This Christmas, buy a Charity Gift for a loved one and families around the world to lift themselves out of poverty.
Image credits and information
Christian Aid has been operating in the Sudan and the current South Sudan since the 1970s and we opened our field office in Juba, South Sudan, in 2008.
