Together For Sudan

Together for Sudan works from an office in Khartoum and a sub office in Kadugli, the Nuba mountains. Most of our projects began as support to educational work. People cannot learn to read without light to see by, sick women find it very difficult to become literate, children who cannot see the blackboard need glasses, and hungry children don’t learn much at all.

The Solar Project provides lighting panels in areas off the electricity grid.  Priority is given to schools, women's centres and community centres.

The Medicine Box supplies basic medicines to self-help clinics serving the poor and displaced for most of whom other medicines are out of reach. Malaria, measles, gastro-enteritis and tuberculosis are common killers. Mobile medicine-boxes have been started in the Nuba Mountains and in Khartoum prisons. Medical professionals supervise all Medicine Box sites.

The Eye Care Project is led by a Sudanese ophthalmologist who provides outreach clinics into squatter areas. Some 60 percent of displaced people have conditions such as myopia, trachoma, cataracts, glaucoma, conjunctivitis, poor vision and traumatic eye injury. The project provides cataract and other surgeries as well as free reading and prescription glasses. Since its beginning in spring 2002, the project has helped some 6,000 individuals. Project priorities are women in our funded literacy classes and schools where we pay teachers' salaries. The project is also active in squatter settlements around Khartoum.

The Breakfast Project  is a response to hunger induced lethargy and absenteeism at all schools for the displaced and is active at ten sites in the Khartoum area. Teachers report that school breakfast is sometimes the only food a child may receive that day.

The HIV/AIDS Awareness Outreach Project began in 2002 and is active in settlements for displaced persons in the Khartoum area. Our three teams reach over 15,000 people each year with information on how to avoid contracting Aids and how to live with it in the family and in the community. Currently we are setting up a home based care component within this project which will assist AIDS victims and their families in need of medicines, food, befriending and palliative care.

Programmes

*AIDS Orphans Education Project

*Women's literacy classes 

*Women's university scholarships (in Sudan only)   

*Payment of teachers’ salaries in schools for displaced children 

*Hostel for university scholars

Our Achievements.

• Women's literacy classes now at 40 sites in Khartoum and the Nuba Mountains.

• Graduation of 2,250 women from literacy classes between 1998 and 2006.

• Graduation of 90 university scholars (all women) from Sudanese universities since 2002.

• Enrolment of over 260 scholars at Khartoum area universities in 2006.

• Payment of 90 teachers salaries in 32 schools in 2006.

• Over 100 scholarships for HIV/AIDS orphans.

• Return of over 40 university graduates to the Nuba Mountains as teachers.

• Establishment of university graduates association.

• Hostel for university scholars.

• Installation of 17 solar panels in support of education.

• Examination of some 3,000 individuals yearly by the TFS Eye Care project which also provides free reading glasses, medicines and eye surgery.

• Provision of basic medicines to communities in the Khartoum area, Gedaref and the Nuba Mountains for people with no other access to health services.

• Breakfast project for children at 10 self-help schools in Khartoum area and at the Kadugli Girls Secondary School.

• Unique HIV/AIDS awareness project which reaches over 15,000 people each year in the Khartoum vicinity.

• Major new project for women's literacy and children's basic education in the Nuba Mountains.

• Plans to open women's literacy classes in Darfur by end of 2006.