Education East Africa Foundation wants to thank you very much once again for your generous gifts and your enthusiastic response to help fund the two soup kitchens near the Elrayan School in Omdurman, Khartoum’s sister city. As a result, some 400 families can now rely on a simple free meal every day.
Prices in Sudan are still exorbitantly high, so we need additional income to continue funding the kitchens and provide them with such nutritious food as lentils, fava beans and onions. Since to date we do not know whether the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will continue to fund the kitchens in December, we are taking the safe bet, and have decided to take a number of steps, including baking ‘oliebollen’ by order at the end of the year, distribute posters and flyers, and this mail to you.
We have attached our new flyer (in Dutch and English), calling on people to donate €10 (or more, but lower amounts are also welcome) per month as this is the amount needed to help one student and his or her family daily for each month. If you would share the flyer as much as possible, we would be very grateful! And if you would like to receive the flyer in another language, please email us!
We hope you appreciate the urgency of our request and perhaps will decide to continue donating a small amount each month. Or perhaps you enjoy a spot of flyering, or organising an event yourself (selling surprises like beignets or doughnuts), raising money in your place of worship, or highlighting the Sudanese crisis and the famine in local media outlets.
Thank you again for your financial support, especially on behalf of the people of Omdurman, and we wish you already a very good Christmas and a happy, healthy and peaceful 2025!
Kind regards,
Djûke, Marijke, Marjan, Khalid, Elseline, Marcel, and Rianne, board members of St. Onderwijs Oost-Afrika (Education East Africa Foundation)
