As millions observe the sacred month, families who have lost everything are fasting without food, without healthcare, and without safety. For mothers, children, and newborns, hunger and illness are not temporary—they are life-threatening.

This Ramadan, SAPA will provide life-saving food to Sudanese families who have fled the war—whether they remain displaced inside Sudan or have sought refuge in Uganda or Chad.
Your support helps provide warm meals for the entire month of Ramadan and food packages for the families who need them most.

Ramadan Food Packages for Families

For families who have lost access to stable income and markets, a Ramadan food package can mean the difference between making it through the month or going days without enough to eat. SAPA distributes Ramadan food packages to help households keep essential staples at home—supporting consistent nutrition, reducing acute hunger, and helping protect children and elders from the dangers of prolonged food deprivation.

Ramadan Food Package includes

Cooking Oil (4 L), Wheat Flour (10 kg), Rice (2 kg), Sugar (5 kg), Dates (2 kg), Legumes (2 kg), Onion (2 kg), Tea (1 kg), Karkadeh (1 kg), Pasta (5 packs), Salt (1 pack), Tomato Paste (5 cans), Orange (1 kg)
 

Daily Warm Meals Throughout Ramadan

In displacement settings, many families don’t have safe kitchens, fuel, or the ability to cook daily—especially while moving between shelters or living in overcrowded areas. Through SAPA-supported community kitchens, we provide consistent warm meals for displaced individuals throughout the month of Ramadan. This ensures people who are fasting can break their fast with dignity, regain strength, and reduce the physical toll of hunger day after day.

Emergency Response

This Ramadan, SAPA aims to support 5,000 displaced families in Sudan by delivering daily essential meals and critical healthcare to those most at risk.
Our response focuses on:

• Providing Ramadan food packages and community kitchen meals to prevent hunger and malnutrition
• Supporting daily Iftar and Suhoor meals through community kitchens for families who have no reliable food access
• Supporting pregnant women and newborns with essential medical care
• Reaching families in areas where health facilities are no longer functional

Food Insecurity and Malnutrition:

This Ramadan, nearly 25 million people in Sudan face acute food insecurity. Families are breaking their fast with inadequate or no meals. Global acute malnutrition exceeds 15% in multiple areas and surpasses 30% in parts of Darfur and Kordofan. Children suffering from severe wasting are unable to withstand fasting-related hunger without urgent nutrition and medical support.

Healthcare Infrastructure Collapse

As families fast this Ramadan, Sudan’s health system remains near collapse, with 70% of health facilities in conflict-affected areas non-functional. Outbreaks of cholera, malaria, and dengue continue to spread, while maternal and neonatal care has been critically disrupted—every 9 minutes, a newborn dies, often from preventable causes linked to malnutrition, untreated illness, and the absence of basic medical care. In many conflict-affected areas, hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed, under-resourced, or inaccessible, leaving displaced families with few options when a child or mother becomes critically ill.

Displacement

Violence in El-Fasher has forced families to flee during Ramadan, arriving in overcrowded sites such as Al-Affad IDPs Camp.
 Many are fasting with little or no food, no access to medical care, and no safe shelter. For children, pregnant women, and the elderly, prolonged hunger combined with illness has become life-threatening.

SAPA's Response

With your support this Ramadan, SAPA is responding on the frontlines of Sudan’s humanitarian crisis—delivering urgent food and essential healthcare support so displaced families can endure hunger, illness, and uncertainty with dignity during the sacred month.

Essential Healthcare to Save Lives

When healthcare facilities are overwhelmed or unreachable, treatable illnesses can become deadly—particularly for children, mothers, and newborns. During Ramadan, SAPA supports urgent healthcare needs by helping cover essential medical items and basic equipment for mobile clinics, alongside critical care support where it is needed most. This includes care related to maternal and newborn health, and hygiene support for women and children—so families have a lifeline when sickness strikes during displacement.

Zakat Eligibility:

This Ramadan campaign is 100% Zakat-certified. Your Zakat is distributed in strict accordance with Islamic guidelines, reaching those most in need—families who are hungry, ill, displaced, and unable to meet even their most basic needs while fasting.
 

Our Commitment:

SAPA is committed to transparency, accountability, and responsible humanitarian action. This Ramadan, every donation supports  evidence-based food, nutrition, and medical care , delivered by on-ground medical teams and trusted partners across Sudan.

Call to Action:

This Ramadan, your contribution directly determines how many lives are reached—whether feeding five people for the month or sustaining kitchens and healthcare services for entire communities.

Give at the level you are able, and help ensure no family is left fasting without food or medical care.

This Ramadan, while we fast by choice, families in Sudan face hunger and illness with no choice at all. Through your Zakat and Sadaqah, you help turn fasting into relief, hunger into nourishment, and hardship into hope—at every scale of giving.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:

“Give charity without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.”

— Al-Tirmidhi 589

The Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 83-3464851), tax-exempt since October 2019 and based in Dallas, TX. Your donation is secure and tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law