Save Families Fleeing El fashir – Feeding in Tawila

Since the war in Sudan began in 2023, El-Fashir — the capital of North Darfur — has endured unimaginable suffering. Once a bustling city, it has now fallen after months of siege and devastation, marking one of the darkest chapters in the country’s ongoing humanitarian crisis.

For nearly two years, civilians have faced relentless violence and severe shortages of food, water, and medicine. Families were trapped without safe passage, hospitals collapsed under pressure, and neighborhoods once filled with life now lie in ruins. Thousands have fled in search of safety, leaving everything behind.

Today, countless families are displaced — sheltering in overcrowded camps or open areas with little more than what they could carry. They face hunger, exhaustion, and deep uncertainty about the future. Children are especially vulnerable — hungry, frightened, and in desperate need of care. Access to clean water, nutrition, and basic health services is nearly nonexistent. Yet, amid these unbearable conditions, the people of Darfur continue to show remarkable resilience, helping one another with what little they have.

SAMA implemented an emergency feeding intervention for newly displaced families in Tawila, North Darfur, responding to the rapid influx of people fleeing violence from El Fasher, Zamzam, Abu Shouk, and surrounding areas. The intervention was delivered through a community kitchen model in partnership with Alaioun Organization for Peace & Development, which led food preparation and distribution on the ground in coordination with local authorities and community structures.

The response covered two displacement sites—Tawila Al-Omda Camp and Hilla Na’ama Camp—and provided hot meals once per day to displaced families living in overcrowded and resource-limited conditions. Across the full implementation period, the program delivered 3,310 hot meals and reached 18,991 displaced people, including women, men, children, older adults, and people with special needs.

Food was purchased locally, stored in safe and healthy conditions, and prepared in central kitchens managed by Alaioun. Meals were then transported to the camps and distributed through organized queues to ensure fairness and dignity. Beneficiary selection and crowd management were carried out with the support of local leaders, sheikhs, community committees, women’s committees, and committees representing people with disabilities.

In addition to food assistance, the intervention included basic accompanying activities, such as handwashing promotion and protection awareness, to help reduce health risks in highly congested displacement settings. Throughout implementation, beneficiary data (including numbers reached, gender, and age groups) was collected to support accountability and monitoring.

This response helped address urgent food needs for displaced families in Tawila during a critical period, while strengthening community-based delivery and coordination in a highly constrained humanitarian environment.

Thank you so much for your generosity in supporting families displaced from El Fasher. Your compassion has brought real relief to people during some of their darkest moments, and we are deeply grateful.

When we launched this campaign, our initial goal was $10,000. However, your support exceeded every expectation—so much so that we kept increasing the target as donations continued to come in. Thanks to you, we raised nearly $70,000, and I’m glad to share that the LaunchGood campaign has now officially closed.

You can also continue to contribute at any time by donating through our website. https://sama-sd.org/donate/