Is the problem that Sudan is not sitting on a large oil reserve? ...........
Sudan Awareness is a project of Children’s Hunger Relief Fund.
Hundreds of villages have been massacred, women raped, children mutilated. Our fellow Christians in Sudan cry out for our help: prayer, food medicine, and Bibles. CHRF is the one of only a few organizations whose volunteers risk their lives daily flying into the zone declared by the UN as the “Red No Go Zone.” See "Terror in Sudan"
In the last year alone, the Sudan Government has carried out 132 bombing missions against mostly civilian targets including schools, churches, and medical clinics.
The number of people who have died in Sudan is hard to comprehend. (More than 1.9 million people in south and central Sudan have died in the past 17 years), and the number that will still die is even beyond that. We can't save them all, but we can save some. According to the U.S. Committee for Refugees:
More than 1.9 million people in south and central Sudan have died in the past 17 years as a result of Sudan's civil war.
At least one out of every five southern Sudanese has died because of the 17-year civil war.
This massive loss of life surpasses the civilian death toll in any war since World War II.
Sudan's civil war is the longest ongoing civil war in the world.
Over 4 million southern Sudanese have been forced to flee their homes and have become "internally displaced." Sudan has produced more internally displaced people than any other country on earth.
More than 80 percent of southern Sudan's population has been displaced at least once, and often repeatedly, since 1983.
Nearly 500,000 southern Sudanese have fled Sudan and are now refugees in other countries.
There were an estimated 70,000 war-related deaths in the war-produced famine of 1998.
More than 1.7 million people now face food shortages in Sudan.
Slave raids are occurring on a regular basis in parts of the South.
Aerial bombardment by the Sudanese government, including the bombing of schools, hospitals, and relief centers, is increasing throughout southern Sudan.
Because of these striking statistics, we need to move fast—more and more children are dieing every day. This is the dry season in Sudan, and the only time supplies can be moved into the remote areas where help is needed most. So please help now.
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