During 18 months of the escalating crisis in Sudan, Qatar Charity (QC) has supplied as much as 5,405 tonnes of aid, benefitting over 1,325,770 displaced individuals across 12 states, a statement said.
The aid, facilitated with support from the people of Qatar, is through projects covering food security, healthcare, non-food items, women and children, and water and sanitation.
With funding from the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), QC delivered aid through three aerial bridge. In the early months of the ongoing crisis, QC provided 125,000 hot meals to displaced people and those stranded in shelters in Port Sudan and the Arqin border crossing on the Sudanese-Egyptian border.
QC distributed a total of 87,092 food baskets to affected families across Sudan's various states, benefitting a total of 522,552 people, particularly in the safe areas of Khartoum. With funding from the QFFD, QC distributed 50,000 food baskets.
As concerns grew about the critical shortage of life-saving medications for cancer and kidney failure patients, QC responded immediately by launching an aerial bridge that delivered 62 tonnes of essential, hard-to-find medicines.
Sudan’s Minister of Health, Dr. Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim, confirmed that QC was the first to deliver cancer medications to the country since the onset of the war, addressing the dire situation where cancer treatments had run out for 18,000 patients. He noted that the medical supplies provided through QC’s aerial bridge would significantly meet the needs of around 8,000 kidney dialysis patients across Sudan.
QC has also prioritised essential services for the displaced, including providing clean drinking water, supervising the chlorination of drinking water, and distributing hygiene and sanitation supplies in displacement centres, the statement added.
