How to help families in Sudan today: 8 honest ways

When the news from Sudan is this heavy, it is easy to feel that nothing one person does could matter. It does. Here are eight honest ways to help, starting today, including some that have nothing to do with us.

A word of disclosure: we are the volunteers behind Gifts to Sudan, so one of the ways below is ours. The need is far bigger than any one group, so we list others too.

What is happening in Sudan, in short?

Since April 2023, war has uprooted millions of people. In a joint release on 15 May 2026, the UN food and children's agencies said that nearly 19.5 million people faced crisis levels of hunger or worse (IPC Phase 3 and above), and that close to nine million people were displaced inside the country at the end of March 2026. Figures change; check the latest from the sources at the end of this page.

Behind each number is a kitchen, a family, a name. That is where help is felt.

Sudanese coffee in a jebena with small cups at night — Illustrative photo. Photo: Nsfcom, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

1. Give through people who can reach families

Large agencies such as the World Food Programme and UNICEF work at scale. Sudanese neighbourhood volunteer groups, the Emergency Response Rooms, have kept community kitchens and clinics going since 2023; they received the 2025 Right Livelihood Award. Choose whoever you trust and can check.

2. Send a gift, not a handout

This is ours. You send USDT or USDC; the volunteers buy food and household goods in Sudan's own markets, dates among them from Sudanese farmers, and hand them to families as gifts, at their door, with no queue and no camera. Every step goes into a public ledger.

A gift can leave today. You choose what it becomes.

Give a gift How it works

3. Buy Sudanese

Dates, hibiscus (karkade), sesame and gum arabic are grown by Sudanese farmers. When you can, buy from Sudanese sellers and shops. Money that stays in Sudan's farms and markets helps families twice. Read Sudan's date palms and the farmers behind them.

4. Stand with Sudanese neighbours near you

Many Sudanese families now live far from home. A meal shared, help with a form, a job lead or a lift to an appointment is help too, and it is the kind that is remembered.

5. Give an hour

If you write, translate, check numbers or build websites, an hour a week makes a difference. Volunteer with us, or with any group you trust.

6. Check any appeal before you give

Who runs it, and do they say plainly what they are (a charity, a volunteer group, a company)?
Can you see where the money went: receipts, a ledger, a report?
Are the payment details only on their own website? Be wary of anyone who asks by private message.
Do they promise what nobody can promise (that "every dollar saves a life", for example)?

We hold ourselves to the same questions: read our promises.

7. Share with care

Share what you have checked, without pictures that strip people of their dignity. Our share kit has short messages and credited images for WhatsApp, Telegram and X.

8. Tell them they are not forgotten

Pray, if you pray. Write, if you write. Ask a Sudanese friend how their family is, and listen. Being remembered is not a small thing.

Send a gift today

Choose what your gift becomes: dates from Sudanese farmers, eggs, grain, poultry, or wherever it is most needed. Follow it in the ledger from the wallet to the family.

Give a gift Share with a friend

Gifts to Sudan is a volunteer initiative, not a registered charity, and holds no licence. 100% of what you give buys gifts; we cover the fees on our side, and the public ledger shows them.