9/30/2025
With generous and long-standing support from Qatari people, Qatar Charity was on time. It preceded all organizations operating in Sudan by implementing the first food aid intervention for those affected after the outbreak of war in mid-April 2023. It operated several airlifts, while its field teams implemented a series of interventions to mitigate the severity of the humanitarian crisis and achieve food security for affected families. However, the need for more essential food aid remains.
A Courageous Step
In the days immediately following the war, Qatar Charity's field teams provided ready-to-eat meals to patients and medical staff at Al-Naw Hospital in Omdurman, and more than 28 tons of food to hospitals and nursing homes in Khartoum State, as well as to those most in need who quickly suffered from severe food shortages.
Several patients, their companions, and medical staff at Al-Naw Hospital in Omdurman expressed their deep gratitude and appreciation for Qatar Charity's rapid response in providing food aid amid the sound of gunfire. Moataz Ibrahim, Director of the Organizations Department at the Humanitarian Aid Commission, said that Qatar Charity's rapid response to help those in need is a historic and courageous step, and a significant and appreciated effort that came at the right time.
Food Baskets and Ready-Made Meals
Qatar Charity's field teams continued to provide urgent food aid during the first months of the crisis in Sudan, providing more than 125,000 hot meals to displaced people and those stranded in shelter camps in Port Sudan and the Argeen crossing on the Sudanese Egyptian border, until they left the country. Ready-made meals and food baskets were then provided as part of several projects implemented in war-affected states.
Tareq Mohi El-Din, Acting Director of the Sudan Office, said that Qatar Charity provided approximately 5,715 tons of food aid, including approximately 142,880 food baskets to more than 887,000 beneficiaries from families affected by the war.
Supporting the Most Vulnerable Groups
With the humanitarian crisis in Sudan worsening due to the war, Qatar Charity has paid great attention to supporting the most vulnerable groups and providing them with essential food supplies. In Al-Jazirah State, central Sudan, Qatar Charity adopted a humanitarian initiative that contributed to saving the lives of 255 children as part of its project to support orphaned children and those without parental support. The children were transferred from Dar Al-Maigoma in Khartoum to Wad Madani, the capital of Al-Jazirah State, after dozens of them died due to food and medicine shortages in Khartoum.
Qatar Charity successfully implemented a qualitative project that contributed to providing food supplies, along with essential medicines and children's supplies, at the home. It also paid incentives to medical and administrative staff and mothers for two months, having assumed this responsibility following the withdrawal of UNICEF, which had been supporting the home prior to Qatar Charity's intervention.
Mass Feeding for Needy Families
Many affected families had no choice but to resort to food banks that have sprung up in mosques and public squares across Sudan, with the support of charitable people inside and outside Sudan, to provide collective food to needy families.
The food support provided by Qatar Charity, with support from the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) in some cases and from charitable individuals in Qatar at other times, has been greatly appreciated by Sudanese authorities and grassroots organizations. Many displaced and needy families have expressed their gratitude for the generous food support provided by Qatar Charity at a time when the need for more food aid is growing.