Darfur Appeal

Darfur Appeal

The UN estimates that 200,000 people have died, and more than two million have been made homeless in the four-year conflict. As the conflict in Darfur deepens, it is spilling over into eastern Chad, where more than 230,000 Sudanese refugees have now fled to escape the fighting.

Muslim Aid has been on the ground in Darfur since the beginning of the crisis, providing emergency relief to thousands of displaced people. We are also involved in creating longer-terms solutions to the problems experienced by displaced persons.

The displaced people have been forced to leave their homes and their whole lives behind them to flee the violence, as they try to find refuge for themselves and their families.  Once settled in one of the numerous camps, they have no means of making an income.

We believe that it is important to enable people to live as independently and with as much dignity as possible. For this reason, Muslim Aid has set up a women’s skills training centre in one of these camps where women are taught to make handicrafts which can then be sold in the local markets.

In the Sakali camp in Nyala, Muslim Aid also provides basic healthcare and reproductive health services to 20,000 people. We also have a mobile clinic, which provides a service to those located in more remote parts of Darfur.

We will need to provide important supplies of food and medicine to those in need, before the weather takes a turn for the worse in Darfur.

 To donate to the Darfur Appeal, you can call Muslim Aid on 0207-377-4200