Our Work
We’re helping local heroes in Sudan build a better future from the ground up, and with the help of supporters like you, we’re making tangible progress every day.
The most oppressed people in Sudan live in the rural periphery regions of the country. Despite the immense pain and suffering brought on by decades of war and genocide, the hope for change in these communities is fiercely contagious.
This is where we’ve focused all of our efforts from the beginning. We work with carefully-chosen indigenous partners to bring childhood education, community healthcare, and humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable people with the greatest needs.
Where We Work
Our Sudanese partners operate in the southern Nuba Mountains and western Darfur region, as well as two refugee camps attached to each area. The Sudanese military and their now former paramilitary allies have committed multiple genocides in both areas for decades.
The Nuba Mountains are home to several dozen African tribal groups who trace their beautiful history back 2,000 years. The 1.3 million Christian, Muslim, and traditionalist Nuba people live in harmony together. Darfur is also home to historic and oppressed African tribal groups who have called the area home for millennia.
War is ongoing in both areas today. Learn more.
Our Approach
Operation Broken Silence is building a global movement to empower the Sudanese people through innovative programs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
We work diligently to identify local Sudanese community leaders, teachers, and healthcare workers who are already making a difference in the lives of their people. We get to know each other. We hear their triumphs and hardships. What makes them celebrate and what makes them weep. What their dreams are and what they need to get there.
And then the real work begins.
Nuba Mountains Partnerships
Education
In 2014, we began funding four Nuba teachers in Yida Refugee Camp teaching under a tree. These teachers have since blossomed their efforts into the Endure Primary and Renewal Secondary Schools, where 24 local teachers serve over 700 students every week. Over 11,000 children have been positively impacted through this partnership to date.
Operation Broken Silence also provides a limited amount of school supplies, teacher training, and testing support to eight more primary schools and one secondary school in Yida.
Healthcare
In 2016, our supporters began fundraising for Mother of Mercy Hospital and their string of community clinics in the Nuba Mountains. This is the only referral hospital in the region and is critical to the survival of the Nuba people, and their ability to thrive.
The hospital and clinics are staffed by a growing team of indigenous doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers. A small group of internationals serve at the hospital to provide training for current and future healthcare workers. Together, they serve upwards of 150,000 patients a year.
Clean Water
From 2022-2023, our supporters fundraised for a complex clean water system that will benefit roughly 7,000 people across five villages that were hit especially hard during the war in the Nuba Mountains.
Our local partner has received the funding for the project. Final preparations for the dig and pump installation are on hold due to the war in Sudan.
Darfur Partnerships
El Fasher Sexual Violence Response & Food Relief
Team Zamzam consists of 20 female counselors serving victims of sexual violence and malnutrition in Zamzam displaced persons camp in North Darfur near El Fasher. They have served more than 4,000 women with counseling that helps alleviate the depression and shame that come with sexual assaults, as well as arranged reparative surgeries for women suffering from traumatic fistulas following assault.
Team Zamzam is also distributing food to the disabled and blind, the elderly, widows who have taken in orphans, and those with severe acute malnutrition. This effort began as a people-to-people initiative involving Sudanese refugee leaders/diaspora and American activists. Program updates are handled by them, with giving and fundraising running through us.
Adré Feeding Program & Clinics
Many survivors of RSF war crimes in West Darfur have fled into eastern Chad, specifically to the refugee camp at the border town of Adré.
Refugee and healthcare leaders in the camp have organized a small feeding program and two medical clinics to provide food and care to the most vulnerable, particularly orphaned children and the disabled.
This effort began as a people-to-people initiative involving Sudanese refugee leaders/diaspora and American activists. Program updates are handled by them, with giving and fundraising running through us.
Southern Darfur Escape & Relief
From June-November 2023, a small team of Sudanese partners helped nearly 2,000 refugees navigate RSF violence in southern Darfur and cross safely into South Sudan. Security conditions have collapsed following the RSF overrunning the region and made continuing this work untenable. We are now doing humanitarian work (food, clothing, etc.) for Darfuri refugees who have fled to Juba, South Sudan.
We aren’t releasing any information that can identify these heroes. They hope to continue working in Darfur one day and their anonymity will be required to do so. We are providing occasional updates though.
Our Sudanese partners need your help.
It’s not in the news, but the largest humanitarian emergency in the world is unfolding in Sudan. Extreme violence has decimated Khartoum. Countless smaller cities and villages have been destroyed. Mass war crimes remain ongoing and humanitarian aid access is extremely limited. Famine now looms over entire swaths of the country and is threatening more lives than the violence itself.
Will you join us by making a donation to these heroes?
$2,200 - Fully funds one classroom at Endure Primary School in Yida Refugee Camp for one semester.
$1,000 - Supports the monthly work of 5 midwives in the Nuba Mountains.
$500 - Delivers food to Darfuri genocide survivors who have fled to South Sudan.
$250 - Provides a daily meal to 10 children for an entire month in Adré refugee camp, where many Darfuri genocide survivors now live.
$100 - Supports the monthly work of a sexual assault counselor in Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, Sudan.
$50 - Delivers a day’s worth of basic medicine to three clinics in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan.
Checks can be make payable to Operation Broken Silence and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900.
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Operation Broken Silence is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law.