Our honesty promises
What are you, exactly?
Gifts to Sudan is a volunteer initiative. It is not a registered charity yet, it holds no licence of any kind, and gifts to it are not tax-deductible. It is run by a small team of volunteers. If our work grows, we plan to register a charity; until then we say plainly what we are.
What exactly happens to my gift?
Crypto arrives in our wallet. The volunteers convert it to local currency through an exchange. They buy goods in Sudan's markets, with a receipt for each purchase. The goods are given to families as gifts. Every fee on our side is covered by us and shown in the ledger. That is the whole road; apart from the exchange, there is no other step and no one else in between.
Does 100% really reach families?
Yes, and this is how we keep it true: everything that arrives in our wallets is spent on gifts. We pay every fee on our side from our own money: the exchange fee and transfer fees. Volunteers are unpaid and take no expenses. Each fee and each top-up is shown in the ledger as its own row. The only fee we cannot cover is the network fee your own wallet charges when you send.
What do you never do?
- Never pay salaries or take an admin cut from donations.
- Never pay armed groups, "checkpoint fees" or anyone on a sanctions list.
- Never publish a family's name, face, town or camp.
- Never photograph children's faces.
- Never make a gift depend on a photo, a story or a thank-you.
- Never ask for money by WhatsApp, phone or private message.
- Never show a number in public that is not in the ledger.
- Never take sides in the war. Help goes to anyone in need.
What happens if money is lost?
If money is lost on the way, through theft, a failed transfer or our mistake, we write it in the ledger, and we replace it from our own money so the family still receives the full gift.
Who checks you?
Today, you do. Every IN row links to the public blockchain, every purchase has a receipt, and each month's ledger is a CSV with a SHA-256 fingerprint. We do not have a second checker or an outside reviewer yet. We are looking for an independent volunteer to check a random sample against the proofs every quarter, and we will say so here when one has started.
How do you handle sanctions?
Two checks. Givers: when a gift is checked on this website, its sending address is matched automatically against the public OFAC SDN list of crypto addresses; a match holds the gift for review, and it is not shown or spent. Receivers: before giving, the volunteers check names against public sanctions lists. We hold no licence and make no claim beyond these two checks.
Who holds the wallets?
The wallets are controlled by the volunteers who run Gifts to Sudan. They are used only for these gifts, kept apart from any other money. Their private keys are stored encrypted and are never shared, sent or shown to anyone. The only real addresses are the ones on this website.
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