A community support and capacity-building project for the displaced residents has been launched in the Al-Roseires and Qanees Sharq camps in Sudan’s Blue Nile State.
In collaboration with the Youth of the Three Cities initiative in Wad Al-Mahi province, the Displaced Youth initiative in the camps received funding from the Kafa Development Organization to roll out the project.
The project targets IDPs who fled to the areas of Al-Roseires and Qenees during the tribal conflict between the Funj and Hausa tribes that occurred in the Blue Nile region in 2021.
Khidir Awad Al-Badri, the head of the Youth of the Three Cities initiative, told Radio Tamazuj on Sunday that his initiative has been working in Wad Al-Mahi and Al-Roseires localities to recover from the tribal events that occurred in the Blue Nile region. These events led to the displacement of large numbers of residents to the cities of Al-Roseires and Qanees.
Khidir explained that the Youth of the Three Cities initiative, in collaboration with the Displaced Youth initiative and with support from the Kafa Development Organization, announced the launch of a community development project through workshops for 60 trainees from the camps, with 30 trainees for each camp.
Khidir indicated that the project includes several capacity building for the displaced, including developing handicraft industries, raising awareness about breast cancer risks and reproductive health, and promoting community awareness.
He said, “The goal of everything we offer is to try to lift our communities out of the situation they are living in. Their conditions worsened further after the outbreak of war and events in Khartoum.”
Meanwhile, Badr Hussein Awad, the coordinator of the camps for the displaced from the tribal conflict in the Al-Roseires locality, said: “The number of camps has reached ten, six of them in the Qanees area and four in the city of Al-Roseires. The total number of displaced people in these camps reached 4,200 families.”
Badr said the camps had benefited a lot from the initiatives of the displaced Youth. He added, “They have engaged in noble work to raise awareness and promote the development of the displaced community by enhancing their capacities and addressing psychological traumas resulting from displacement, enabling them to overcome the predicament they have fallen into.”
For her part, Zahra Mahmoud, a displaced woman from the Omar Al Farouq School camp, expressed her gratitude to the displaced Youth who carried out promotion and awareness campaigns on the plights of the displaced people.
Hadiya Atheim, a displaced from Hafsa camp in Qanees area, called for the return of international organizations and the resumption of their support for the displaced persons.
She thanked the Kafa organization and International Relief Organization for supporting the displaced.