Sudan
We have worked with communities in Sudan for more than 20 years, focusing on older people's most pressing needs.
We now work in 12 camps for people forced to flee their homes by the West Darfur conflict. Here, we provide healthcare, eye care, shelter, support for small businesses, literacy training and social activities.
The difference we made in 2009-10
- In 2009 we launched a project called ‘Empowering Older People in Poorer Areas of Khartoum' - set to make life better for up to 52,000 older people. The idea is to help them get healthcare, education, legal help and financial support - as well as join forces with others to become stronger in the community.
- We have provided shelter, healthcare and food to more than 21,000 older people and their relatives, including children in their care, in West Darfur.
- We have restored the sight of older people in West and North Darfur by providing cataract surgery.
What next?
- We will now help older people in Darfur get back to some kind of normality, as we contribute to rebuilding peace in the wake of the conflict.
- We will provide more Mobile Eye Clinics in North Darfur, if we get the funding we need.
- To relieve older people's isolation and vulnerability, HelpAge plans, with its partners, to build a network of older people's associations and social centres.
Our partners
Sudan Society with Care for Older People (SSCOP), Sudan Red Crescent Society (SRCS), National Organisation for the Blind