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Nuba Sudan Appeal
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Sudan's Nuba Mountains people in crisis

While thousands of South Sudanese celebrated the birth of their new country, families in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains were fleeing for their lives.

In June, the northern government’s forces began attacking both armed forced and civilians in Southern Kordofan State.

Much like the people of Darfur, the people of the Nuba Mountains have been the victims of terrible treatment by the Government of Sudan for years.

They have suffered discrimination, underdevelopment, and forced adherence to Islam.

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Mother & child, Nuba

Because of this, people from the Nuba Mountains joined the South in the long civil war against the North, gaining themselves a powerful enemy that has retaliated with “genocide,” some say.

As a result of the civil war, the number of internally displaced people living in camps in this area is already significant. The United Nations estimates that at least 60,000 people have been forced to flee the camps.

Now they have no food, shelter, or medical assistance. Some are hiding in caves. Some have fled to the North. Kadugli, the capital of Southern Kordofan State, is almost entirely deserted, yet there are no formal relief camps set up to serve these twice-displaced people.

In the midst of this turmoil, our partner Africa Inland Church-Sudan is working to provide relief supplies to families who have fled the unrest.

“The people who have been displaced by the war have lost houses and belongings and are living in an exposed situation, at the mercy of nature,” said our partner Rev. John. “The children, mothers, and elderly are the most miserable and vulnerable due to lack of food and the effects of water-borne disease.”

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The faiths of the Nuba Mountain people include both Islam and Christianity mixed with tribal religions. AIC has two full-time church planters serving in the area, and these men have found the people to be very responsive to the Gospel.

AIC has asked WorldShare to provide relief assistance to the 1,000 neediest families (an estimated 7,000 people). Disease and hunger are the immediate concerns, especially as the rainy season begins in August.

With your gifts, AIC will provide plastic sheeting for shelters, blankets, mosquito nets, medicine (as needed), rice, cooking oil, lentils, and sorghum to these families.

Relief items for one person cost £8 and will be distributed by a team of 30 AIC staff in the name and love of Christ.

Please pray for God’s protection and provision for the people of the Nuba Mountains and for AIC as they reach out with Christ’s love. Please also consider giving financially to AIC's relief work.

The displaced people in Sudan's Nuba mountains will be extremely grateful for any help you can give. Would you consider a gift today?

 

HOW TO DONATE

1) Online - click the Donate Now button. Payment options now include PayPal NEW

2) By Post - postal donations should be payable to 'WorldShare'. Please write 'Nuba' and your name and address on the reverse of your cheque. Mail to 'Freepost WORLDSHARE' (no other text and no stamp needed on envelope if mailing within the UK).

3) By phone - telephone donations via credit/debit card may be made Monday-Friday 8.30am-4.30pm on 01302 775209.