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First major aid convoy reaches Zamzam Camp after months of famine
The first aid trucks that rolled into the camp were met with cheers from exhausted people, many of whom have been forced to eat crushed peanut shells and grass.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is finally surging operations across Sudan. The first aid convoy has arrived at Zamzam Displacement Camp in Darfur, one of the epicenters of Sudan’s spiraling famine. But the crisis is far from over.
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19 months of war between the national army and a genocidal militia called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has torn Sudan to shreds. This crisis became the largest humanitarian and displacement catastrophe in the world nearly a year ago, a fact largely being ignored by many world leaders and journalists. Khartoum already lies in ruins, as do countless towns and villages the war has blasted through or that the RSF has massacred. Multiple areas of Sudan descended into famine months ago.
Map: Location of El Fasher. (Operation Broken Silence)
Recent events in Zamzam and the nearby city of El Fasher in North Darfur shows just how dangerous this emergency has become. Home to an estimated two million people, the area has been under a brutal siege by the RSF for seven terrifying months. Famine was officially declared in Zamzam three months ago —catastrophic hunger actually began well before then— and no major aid convoys have reached the area until now. The result is that cemeteries and makeshift burial sites are expanding so rapidly they can be seen by satellites.
The traditional global aid structure has failed to meet the scale of this crisis head on for a myriad of reasons, the three biggest being a deplorable lack of funding, the army regime denying aid access, and the predictable collapse of law and order in RSF-controlled areas. Indeed, the problem most in control of the international system —merely funding the United Nations’ 2024 emergency response— is still neglected, with the aid effort only 60% funded for the entire year. And 2024 is almost over.
The world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe is not forgotten, it is being ignored. Ordinary Sudanese are still paying the price.
A flicker of light in the darkness
The WFP convoy that arrived in Zamzam is the first to appear since famine was confirmed in August. The combination of intense urban combat in nearby El Fasher, roads made impassable by seasonal rains, and the army denying aid access to large swaths of Darfur —which is mostly under control of the sadistic RSF— made delivering aid to Zamzam all but impossible.
The first aid trucks that rolled into Zamzam Displacement Camp on November 22 were met with cheers from exhausted people, many of whom have been forced to eat crushed peanut shells and grass. According to WFP, the convoy departed the Adré border crossing with Chad on November 9 and arrived on the 22, carrying 150 metric tons of aid for 12,500 people. A second, much larger convoy departed Port Sudan for Zamzam in the far east of the country on November 12 and carries 330 metric tons of aid for 27,400 people.
While this will have a positive impact on displaced Sudanese trying to survive in Zamzam, it is not nearly enough to turn the tide of famine in the area. The camp’s official population size before the siege of El Fasher was already over 500,000. Due to the extreme violence in El Fasher and other nearby areas, the Zamzam population has surged for months and may be closer to one million now.
This delivery, then, is akin to a band-aid on a gunshot wound, but it is hopefully the start of a more consistent flow of aid to preserve human life in this impossible environment. There is ample opportunity to continue saving lives here in partnership with local heroes.
You can help save lives in Zamzam
Team Zamzam is made up of 20 female counselors who are distributing food, sanitizing soap, and medicine to the disabled and blind, the elderly, unaccompanied children, widows who have taken in children, and those with severe acute malnutrition. They have also provided counseling services to over 4,000 women who were sexually assaulted and repaired 9 critical water wells. Thousands of people in Zamzam are alive today because of these brave women.
This month, Team Zamzam has fed 10,623 of the most vulnerable people. Another 252 families have benefited from the distribution of basic necessities, consisting of a food basket of flour, red lentils, and sugar.
The counselors need $20,000 per month to continue saving lives at this scale. Whether you can spare $10 or $1,000 doesn't matter; what matters is that we all do our part to support these brave women in this dark hour.
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The first aid convoy has arrived at Zamzam Displacement Camp in Darfur, one of the epicenters of Sudan’s spiraling famine. But the crisis is far from over. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/first-major-aid-convoy-reaches-zamzam-camp-after-months-of-famine
The first aid trucks that rolled into Zamzam Displacement Camp in Sudan on November 22 were met with cheers from exhausted people, many of whom have been forced to eat crushed peanut shells and grass. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/first-major-aid-convoy-reaches-zamzam-camp-after-months-of-famine
Famine was officially declared in Zamzam three months ago and no major aid convoys have reached the area until now. The result is that cemeteries and makeshift burial sites are expanding so rapidly they can be seen by satellites. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/first-major-aid-convoy-reaches-zamzam-camp-after-months-of-famine
Adré Children’s Feeding Program and Clinic Update - November 2024
This once quiet town perched on the Chad-Sudan border is now the main hub for people escaping a genocide and famine that has given way to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
Program Background
Shortly after war began in Sudan in April 2023, Darfur became ground zero for some of the worst atrocities committed in modern history. The national army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) battle against each other for control of Sudan morphed into the largely Arab RSF launching a hate-driven assault on Darfur’s historic ethnic African groups, such as the Zaghawa, Fur, and Masalit.
Map by Operation Broken Silence.
Between April and June of 2023 alone, the RSF and their allied Arab militias committed a highly organized genocide of up to 15,000 Masalit people in El Geneina, West Darfur. The brutal paramilitary force followed up this extermination with a shock offensive across Darfur in October, seizing all but one state capital and driving most army forces out of the region.
One of our private Sudanese partners assisted persecuted ethnic groups fleeing RSF war crimes during this period. They helped nearly 2,000 refugees escape the Central, South, and East provinces and cross into South Sudan. This lifesaving work ended in November 2023 when the RSF completed its occupation of most all of Darfur. We are proud of the brave team who worked around the clock at great personal risk to help some of the most vulnerable escape.
Since then, several areas of Darfur have descended into famine. Refugees coming into Chad —often with dangerously thin arms and thousand-yard stares— bring stories of witnessing extreme violence and loved ones dying of starvation. Darfur under RSF occupation has become a human rights and humanitarian nightmare. The ethnic cleansing of historic African tribes is ongoing. Rape and sexual violence are widespread. Unhinged RSF units are running out of markets, banks, farms, and storehouses to plunder.
Operation Broken Silence is now helping to provide emergency food and medical support for some of the most at-risk Darfur displaced and refugee communities. We are supporting key indigenous leaders in two areas:
Adré Refugee Camps in eastern Chad
Zamzam Displacement Camp near El Fasher, North Darfur.
We have some important updates from our partners in Adré below, as well as a brief overview of current conditions in the camps.
An Update From Dr. Douda
Many survivors of the Darfur genocide have made their way into Chad, the country which neighbors the western Darfur region (see our map, above). Sudanese doctor Abdelillah Douda, who is helping to oversee a small clinic and children’s feeding program in Adré, visited both at the end of October. Here is his report:
Much darkness and misery is experienced by Sudanese refugees who have fled into eastern Chad, especially in the huge Al-Malik camp adjacent to Adré. But refugees began helping their friends and families after the trouble and hardship of fleeing the hell of war in Darfur. This was the spark that lit the way for the magnificent work now being doing the For You children’s feeding center and clinic in Adré.
Photo: At the children’s feeding center in Adré.
Due to the poor healthcare in the camp, which is inhabited by a quarter of a million people —mostly women and children— a group of doctors, nurses, workers and administrators from Darfur have established a small clinic to provide medical services to the most needy. With modest financial assistance, these people were able to do a qualitative humanitarian work in the field of providing physical and psychological treatment to residents. In a short period of time, the clinic has become a treasured destination for patients due to the distinguished services it provides and the good treatment that patients receive from its volunteer workers.
To tell you the truth, when I visited this camp between October 26-31, 2024, we were amazed by this work. Coupled to the feeding center the clinic is fast becoming a small hospital. It consists of two rooms for administrators, two clinics for examination, a clinic for a specialist, a fully integrated examination laboratory, an ultrasound room, temporary wards for holding patients for a short period, a small mental health department, and a large pharmacy to provide free medicine to patients. 35 individuals now work here, including doctors, nurses, and other medical workers. They receive between 150-200 patients daily, and the feeding center receives between 600-700 children for breakfast every day. The clinic staff work from 7AM-5PM.
We met many patients during this visit, and they expressed their gratitude and thanks to everyone who contributed and worked to establish and maintain the clinic and feeding center. They wished that such work would be generalized in all the camps in eastern Chad. Some of the chronically ill patients who are being treated told me that if it weren’t for the children’s feeding center and clinic, many would have died from a lack of treatment.
Current conditions in the Adré camps
As of mid-November, an abysmal 29% of the $630.2 million the United Nations needs for Sudanese refugees in Chad in 2024 has been funded, and the year is almost over. This means that the international humanitarian response in the Adré camps continues to be severely limited, making the clinic and feeding center all the more important.
Well over 700,000 refugees have now fled into eastern Chad. The country has received more Sudanese this year than the previous 20 years combined. It’s estimated roughly 250,000 of the refugees are in the Adré area. While it is much safer here than RSF-controlled areas of Darfur, many of the refugees understandably feel vulnerable. RSF fighters are periodically spotted in eastern Chad, and some refugees have reported receiving death threats from the paramilitaries. Adré sits just a few miles inside Chad’s porous border with Sudan and, while the Chadian government has troops forward-deployed to provide protection, RSF fighters can still easily slip into the country.
Hunger is common in Adré, as are preventable diseases due to the lack of adequate clean water, latrines, and medicines. With the area now overwhelmed and tensions running high, authorities in Chad are pre-registering newly arriving Sudanese refugees at the border and relocating them to Dougui, which is further west. Recent air strikes in El Fasher, North Darfur and extreme famine and targeted RSF violence in West Darfur are still pushing more refugees into Chad, usually with intense medical and nutritional needs.
The clinic and feeding program need at least $8,500 per month to operate at current levels, and they can expand these services to meet more needs when more funding becomes available. Please consider joining us in helping these brave heroes serve their persecuted people.
Photo: Work at the clinic in Adré.
These heroes need your help
These refugee leaders are a small bulwark against spreading famine and disease. With the international community doing so little to fight this crisis, directly funding their efforts are all the more critical to fend off the most dire outcomes. Your one-time or monthly gift can save lives today and help them prepare for what lies ahead.
$8,500: fully fund the clinic and feeding program for an entire month!
$4,000: cover the children's feeding program for one month
$1,000: provide one week of all basic medicines needed
$500: feed 500 hungry children for one week
$250: help expand the children's feed program
$100: deliver nutritional supplements that help fight malnutrition
$50: deliver anti-malarial, typhus and other speciality medications
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Adré was once a quiet town perched on the border between Chad and Sudan. It is now the main hub for people escaping a genocide and famine that has given way to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/adre-childrens-feeding-program-and-clinic-update-november-2024
It’s not in the news, but the world’s largest humanitarian emergency is unfolding in Sudan. Learn more and help: https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/adre-childrens-feeding-program-and-clinic-update-november-2024
The international humanitarian response in the Sudanese refugee camps at Adré continues to be severely underfunded, making this special clinic and feeding center all the more important. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/adre-childrens-feeding-program-and-clinic-update-november-2024
Well over 700,000 refugees have now fled into eastern Chad. The country has received more Sudanese this year than the previous 20 years combined. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/adre-childrens-feeding-program-and-clinic-update-november-2024
Preparing for the 2024 Giving Season
Discover key days and deadlines for 2024 end of year giving and donate early.
This year in Sudan has been both challenging and inspiring. While the war has brought unprecedented suffering, we've also witnessed firsthand the incredible resilience, courage, and compassion of our Sudanese partners. Thank you for standing with them this year.
We’ll be sharing recent program updates and our outlook for 2025 soon. In the meantime, you can find key days and deadlines for the 2024 Giving Season below. Operation Broken Silence is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Your gift is tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law, and it can make a real difference.
The 2024 Giving Season
November 11: Year-End Giving Begins
We encourage you to give early to avoid missing a deadline. This provides you more ease of mind and lightens the burden on us. If one of the reasons you are donating is for a tax deduction, now is the time to talk to your financial advisor.
December 3: Giving Tuesday
The global day of generosity is the perfect day to give!
December 30: Soft Deadline
Donor-advised funds, brokers, and exchanges need time to execute gifts, and checks must be dated and postmarked by December 31. We strongly advise you to donate no later than Monday, December 30 if you are giving by:
Mailing a check
Donor-advised fund (DAF)
Investment portfolio
Crypto wallet
December 31: Final Day To Give
Online gifts by debit or credit card must be submitted by 11:30PM.
Checks should be dropped in the mail by 5PM.
Stock gifts should be submitted at market open.
Crypto donations should be made as early as possible.
Give Now
Operation Broken Silence is building a global movement to empower the Sudanese people through innovative programs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. Our EIN is 80-0671198.
Checks can be made payable to Operation Broken Silence and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900.
Please note that gifts of stock and cryptocurrency are non-refundable.
With your generous support, we can help our Sudanese partners continue saving and change lives for the better. Thank you for being a part of our movement this year. Talk to you soon.
Onward,
Mark C. Hackett
Executive Director, obsilence.org
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The 15th annual Eden’s Run 5K
On October 26, our supporters came together in Memphis to celebrate 15 years of Eden’s Run 5K, our annual run and walk for education in Sudan.
On October 26, 2024 some of our supporters came together in Memphis, TN to celebrate fifteen years of Eden’s Run 5K, our annual run and walk helping to bring education to Sudan's next generation of leaders.
We couldn’t have asked for better weather. With your help we made it to 74% of our $7,500 goal! A big thank you to all of our runners for giving and fundraising, as well as our board members, volunteers, and Memphis Runners Track Club for coming together to make race day possible.
Eden’s Run was made possible by our generous sponsors:
Miss Eden’s Run? Join our virtual Miles For Sudan event!
Operation Broken Silence is building a global movement to empower the Sudanese people through innovative programs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For over a decade, we've allied people just like you with incredible Sudanese heroes who are bring emergency aid, education and healthcare to their people. And they need us now more than ever.
Miles For Sudan is a new global event for runners, walkers, and cyclists who want to help Sudanese heroes save lives. All you have to do is sign up and then ask friends and family to give through your fundraising page after each workout. And the best part? You can participate from wherever you call home.
Not ready to participate in Miles For Sudan? Make a one-time donation or start a small monthly gift! Here are a few ways your generosity can help:
$200- provides a teacher's salary for one month.
$150- helps deliver new chalkboards and repair classrooms.
$100- provides pencils, notebooks, and other basic school supplies.
$50- gives the gift of sport by providing nets, balls, and more.
Checks can be made payable to Operation Broken Silence and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900. You can also donate stock or crypto.
Operation Broken Silence is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Your donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law.
Hundreds feared dead in Sudan after paramilitary rampage, suicides reported in aftermath
The latest war crimes in Sudan have torn through an area south of Khartoum, where the Rapid Support Forces recently went on a multi-day killing spree through dozens of defenseless towns and villages.
The latest war crimes in Sudan have torn through an area south of Khartoum, where the Rapid Support Forces recently went on a multi-day killing and raping spree through nearly 60 defenseless towns and villages.
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18 months of war between the national army and a genocidal militia called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has all but destroyed Sudan. The country has been ground zero for the largest humanitarian and displacement crises in the world for months, an urgent reality not reflected in the international press. Khartoum already lies in ruins, as do countless other towns and villages. Multiple regions have descended into famine and there is still no end in sight.
Annual rains in Sudan reduced fighting the past few months due to flooding and washed out roads. The rainy season came to an end a few weeks ago, but a new surge in heavy combat broke out well before then as the army and RSF launched new offensives early. As has been the case throughout this war, an uptick in armed conflict is giving way to a surge in targeted war crimes.
Map: Location of Gezira area. (Operation Broken Silence)
On October 20, the RSF began blocking access to roughly 30 communities in northern and eastern Gezira province, just south of Khartoum. Main roads were sealed off and communication channels, including privately-owned Starlink terminals, were seized to try to trap residents and prevent them from getting word out.
Over the next four days, RSF fighters marched through towns and villages in northern and eastern Gezira. They fired live ammunition at civilians indiscriminately while executing others. The paramilitaries looted property and plundered markets. Then they began sexually assaulting women and girls.
Throughout the brazen assault the RSF expanded into more towns and villages. Nearly 60 have now been attacked. Over 119,000 people have fled Gezira in the past several days.
Right now, the heaviest blow seems to have fallen on El Sariha village, where more than 120 people are reported to have been murdered by the RSF. Roughly 200 residents have been wounded. Over 150 more are missing and presumably being detained and tortured by the RSF. High civilian casualties are being reported in the villages of Rufaa and Tamboul as well.
Getting information out has proven to be difficult due to the near complete communications black out. Survivors escaping the RSF blockade bring with them terrifying stories of executions, rape, and having to flee in the dead of night to avoid being hunted down by RSF fighters. Other eyewitnesses report seeing RSF soldiers beating civilians.
These stories align with the minimal footage and photos that have appeared on social media, including some posted by RSF fighters, who look to be proud of their atrocities. One video we reviewed showed a paramilitary dragging an elderly man by his beard and humiliating him as other soldiers watch and cheer. Others show bodies covered for burial, people fleeing their villages, and the RSF rounding up civilians at gunpoint as small arms fire is heard in the background.
Sexual assault seems to be a central feature of this RSF rampage. Fathers and brothers were killed for trying to prevent RSF soldiers from raping their female family members. Survivors have said the RSF is abducting women and girls, and reports are emerging that an unknown number of women in Gezira have committed suicide instead of waiting to be raped by the RSF.
Understanding these war crimes
The RSF has a well-documented history of rampaging against ordinary Sudanese after battlefield losses. The paramilitary force is built in a way that units are undisciplined on their own, but easy for commanders to take strong control of during major operations. Top RSF commanders often use this dynamic to deny knowledge of their war crimes, even when there is evidence commanders planned and executed a genocide.
With these facts in mind, the trigger for RSF war crimes in Gezira appears to be two-fold.
First, in September, the army launched a major offensive in and around Khartoum, reclaiming large swaths of Bahri (Khartoum North) and gaining a new foothold in Khartoum proper. We covered this in our last monthly newsletter. Army forces also seized control of the strategic Jebel Moya area in Gezira and areas in nearby Sinnar province a few weeks ago, driving out RSF fighters as they advance.
Second, Abu Keikel —a major RSF commander and the de facto ruler of Gezira— recently defected to the army. RSF fighters began attacking villages and towns in Gezira seen as “loyal” to Keikel shortly after. That’s RSF code for targeting just about anyone who is the same ethnicity as Keikel is. Many RSF fighters adhere to an extremely racist, Arab-supremacist ideology that says African tribal groups must be cleansed from Sudan and that all other Sudanese Arabs are inferior.
Gezira has been largely quiet for months despite the RSF occupation and, with RSF forces facing intensifying pressure from the army and losing a top commander, the paramilitaries are now taking their rage out on civilians along ethnic lines as part of their predictable pattern. RSF social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing) are even claiming that the villagers were plotting with the army to rise up against the RSF as the real pretext for these atrocities. While the army’s intelligence branch has smuggled weapons to a handful of villages in Gezira, there is no evidence that armed clashes broke out between the RSF and villagers before the rampage began
These crimes are yet another grim reminder that the Sudanese people will never be safe and prosperous as long as the RSF exists. Even if top commanders wanted to reform their paramilitary outfit, they are incapable of doing so and always will be. Sudan’s national army are no angels; indeed, that force is likely beyond reform as well. But the RSF always has been and always will be a terrorist organization, one that has reach beyond Sudan’s borders and can only survive by plundering the Sudanese state, private property, and the country’s natural resources. It is unhelpful and dangerous to understand the RSF as anything else besides the cancer it is.
Our Sudanese partners need your help
Operation Broken Silence is building a global movement to empower the Sudanese people through innovative programs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For over a decade, we've allied people just like you with incredible Sudanese heroes who are bring emergency aid, education and healthcare to their people. And they need us now more than ever.
Miles For Sudan is a new global event for runners, walkers, and cyclists who want to help Sudanese heroes save lives. All you have to do is sign up and then ask friends and family to give through your fundraising page after each workout. And the best part? You can participate from wherever you call home.
Not ready to participate in Miles For Sudan? Make a quick one-time donation or set up a small monthly gift instead. Here are a few ways your generosity can help:
$1,000 - Fully funds one classroom at Endure Primary School in Yida Refugee Camp for half a semester.
$500 - Delivers food to Darfuri genocide survivors who have fled to South Sudan.
$250 - Provides a daily breakfast 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 - Helps repair classrooms in Yida damaged by seasonal rains and provide for general maintenance.
Checks can be made payable to Operation Broken Silence and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900. You can also donate stock or crypto.
Operation Broken Silence is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Your donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law.
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The latest war crimes in Sudan have torn through an area south of Khartoum, where the Rapid Support Forces recently went on a multi-day killing spree through nearly 60 defenseless towns and villages. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/hundreds-feared-dead-in-sudan-after-paramilitary-rampage-suicides-reported-in-aftermath
From October 20-25, RSF fighters marched through towns and villages in northern and eastern Gezira. They executed civilians, looted property and markets, and sexually assaulted women and girls. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/hundreds-feared-dead-in-sudan-after-paramilitary-rampage-suicides-reported-in-aftermath
The heaviest blow seems to have fallen on El Sariha village, where more than 120 people are reported to have been murdered by the RSF. Roughly 200 residents have been wounded. Over 150 more are missing and presumably being detained and tortured by the RSF. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/hundreds-feared-dead-in-sudan-after-paramilitary-rampage-suicides-reported-in-aftermath
Gezira has been largely quite for months despite the RSF occupation and, with RSF forces facing intensifying pressure from the army and losing a top commander, are now taking their rage out on civilians as part of their predictable pattern. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/hundreds-feared-dead-in-sudan-after-paramilitary-rampage-suicides-reported-in-aftermath
Introducing Miles For Sudan
The global event for runners, walkers, and cyclists helping Sudanese heroes save lives in the world's largest humanitarian emergency.
Miles For Sudan is a new global event for runners, walkers, and cyclists helping Sudanese heroes save lives in the world's largest humanitarian emergency.
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With the war and famine in Sudan worsening by the day, our brave Sudanese partners are overwhelmed and in desperate need of more support. Miles For Sudan is our invitation to you to get into the game. It’s free to sign up. And your fundraising page automatically accepts 150+ currencies from around the world, meaning you can participate from wherever you call home.
Credits
FEATURING
Runners: Emmanuel Amido, Scott Nivens, Will Moss, Corinne Thompson, Rajan Thakur, Brittney Tucker, Paul and Xitalli Sobero, Jonahius Kemboi, Sean Ferrell, Jonathan Fogo, and Jackie Broehl.
"A Home-Sick Sparrow" by Sudanese poet Mahjoub Sahrif, who dedicated his life to seeing Sudan become free and just. Reading by Emmanuel Amido. We do not own the rights to this poem.
CREDITS
Producer: Mark Hackett
Director: Joshua Cannon
Director of Photography: Jacob Geyer
Assistant Director: Brody Kuhar
G&E: Stuart Taylor & John Christman
Art: Dustin Brantley, Will Knutson & Scott Nivens
Sound: John Christman
Still Photography: Nate Packard & Mark Hackett
On-site Support: Jeffrey Cannon
Music: Tim Mann, licensed via The MusicBed.
SPECIAL THANKS
To the Amido family for being a central part of this story and inviting us into your beautiful home.
Nashville Camera for serving us with our equipment needs.
Farther Bag Co. for opening up your shop and making a Sudanese flag.
Our Sudanese brothers and sisters, who will one day live in peace made possible by a whole and just Sudan.
Filmed on ARRI Alexa Mini and Cooke Anamorphic/i FF Prime Lenses.