To address the significant disruption caused by two years of conflict, Sudan’s Education Ministry has now introduced an interim school year. Running from 22 February to mid-August, this additional term provides pupils with a vital opportunity to catch up on their education. This follows an…
As the war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in western and southern Sudan rage on, creating widespread famine, many schools in central and eastern Sudan have resumed classes. The Eisa Mahanna School for children with disabilities in Elgezira Aba, south…
The Foundation Education East Africa (OOA) board has grown! Our new team members have already started making decisions on how we can best support our three self-help schools and the local community. We’re so grateful to our monthly and one-time donors—none of this would be…
Since January 2025, there have been several changes beyond our food aid programmes. Classes have now started at the Elrayan school in Omdurman (Elsawra neighbourhood 50) and the Eisa Mahanna school in El Gezira Aba. Regarding the local situation, the army has recaptured Khartoum. While…
The past year ended with two major beignet baking campaigns in the Dutch cities of Rotterdam and Amersfoort. Board members Marjan van der Horst and Elseline Tuinier and their sisters together baked more than 1,400 beignets, raising some €2,500 for food aid in the disadvantaged…
As 2024 is drawing to a close, we’d like to share an update about the three self-help schools which the Education East Africa Foundation is supporting with your help, and to appeal for more aid! The Eisa Mahanna School When war broke out, now almost…
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…
For about three months now, the two soup kitchens in neighbourhoods 43 and 44 in Elsawra in Omdurman have been providing simple daily meals to 400 hungry families in the area. This is all too necessary, as money has run out, there is no work,…
The situation in Omdurman, is going, as predicted by many organisations, from bad to worse. People in Sudan’s war zones are running out of reserves while the prices of what little food there is, are skyrocketing. There is little progress in peace negotiations and there…
Jullie zullen vast wel af en toe een berichtje voorbij zien komen over ‘de vergeten oorlog’, zoals de meer dan tien maanden durende, gewelddadige strijd tussen het officiële leger, gedomineerd door islamisten, en de milities van de Rapid Support Forces (RSF) vaak wordt genoemd. Zoals…