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End Nuba Genocide Campaign

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Mark H

Cordova, TN
  • amount raised26000
  • People Doing It 14

The Problem

The End Nuba Genocide Campaign is raising funds for the purchasing and delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid for the victims of the genocide in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. In June of 2011, the Omar al-Bashir regime in Sudan unleashed a wave of killing, rape, and forced starvation against its own people in the Nuba Mountains. Daily aerial bombardments and ground attacks against civilians have kept the Nuban people from being able to farm the land that is historically and legally theirs. With no food growing in the region and Bashir refusing to allow humanitarian aid in, hundreds of thousands of lives are now threatened by war-related causes such as preventable disease and forced starvation. This amounts to genocide by attrition. Operation Broken Silence delivers emergency food and nutritional supplements directly into war-affected areas to families in need, despite ongoing dangers on the ground and a lack of the presence of other international NGOs.

Plan of Action

Operation Broken Silence is one of only a handful of organizations to gain access to the Nuba Mountains of Sudan in 2012. Following this rare visit, the organization released a documentary film shot on the ground. To date this film has received over 200,000 views between online and offline screenings: http://vimeo.com/49204682 Leading up to the release of the film, Operation Broken Silence initiated an emergency aid operation on the ground due to a lack of international aid organizations on the ground. To date the campaign has raised over $25,000 from private donors and completed three aid deliveries, totaling nearly 10,000Ibs of supplies, to families in need that have been driven off their land. These aid deliveries have prevented death by starvation and improved the health of individuals impacted. To ensure proof of delivery for our donors, we film aid deliveries and create short videos proving our work. See the proof of the campaign: https://vimeo.com/53954346 Operation Broken Silence is looking to expand this campaign to include investments in seeds for future farming, clean water solutions, and emergency medical supplies for small clinics that are still operational.

For More Info

End Nuba Genocide Campaign - http://www.stayclassy.org/events/end-nuba-genocide-campaign/e10289
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