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Our Mission

Restoring Hope, Rebuilding Lives: Our mission is to help Sudanese refugees and IDPs seeking safety from war by providing essential medical care, food, and supplies through the Saving Alginina Initiative.

Saving Children

Our main mission is to save and rescue permanently displaced children.

Peace On The Planet

By working with our partners, we aim to establish peaceful relationships.

Care and Protection

We provide care and protection to support refugees in Sudan and Chad.

VISION

We envision a future where every Sudanese person has a safe and dignified life.

VALUES

We uphold the humanitarian principles of compassion in action - Treat, heal, transform. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities. We value Inclusiveness and collaboration to achieve revitalization of community.


BACKGROUND

The Saving Alginina Initiative is a bi-national Initiative that formed after the events of the war in June 2023 to help a large number of families who were forced to flee from their homes to the Chadian border region of Adré because of the outbreak of violence. We want them to have a safe refuge and a dignified life. We help IDPs in refugee camps in Chad, as well as, in Sennar, Khartoum, Al-Jazeera, and North Darfur states in Sudan. SAI was founded by Sadeia Hamid and Mozamil Mohamed in July 2023.


NAME

We began our work as the Saving AlGeneina Initiative to honor the Al Geneina district of West Darfur state in Sudan. To help with pronunciation for English language speakers we adjusted the spelling a few times, as you may see across our linktr.ee and email address but we eventually chose the Saving Alginina Initiative. We are in the process of registering in Chad as Hope and Haven for Refugees and in Sudan as Saving Sudan.


NONPROFIT STATUS

The Saving Alginina Initiative is a volunteer operated network of crisis rescue with charitable support for displaced Sudanese families in Chad and Sudan. Our applications to register as a charitable organization in both Sudan and Chad are currently under review. During these chaotic times of military and political turmoil, our official designation is not expected to be reviewed and assigned quickly. We are pursuing registration as a 501(c)3 nonprofit in the United States of America as well.


PARTNERS

  • Pious Projects
  • Home Tax
  • International Call Organization (ICO)
  • Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
  • Sudanese Development Call Organization (NIDAA)
  • Robert Bosch Stiftung
  • Sudanese American Physicians Ascociation (SAPA)
  • Sudanese British Physicians Ascociation
  • Sons of Darfur in Britain
  • Fal Humanitarian Aid

Latest Causes

At Saving Alginina Initiative, there are numerous projects, in which you can always take part by supporting our cause.

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RAIN COVER PROJECT – JUNE 2024:

In June of 2024 we began work to provide stable shelters for 60,000 Sudanese refugees. As of August 2024 over 90% of the refugees in King Camp, Eastern Chad, face inadequate shelter as the autumn season brings increased rainfall and wind. This lack of proper shelter exposes them to the elements and increases the risk of waterborne diseases and respiratory infections. We aim to distribute high-quality tarpaulins lasting 6 months, medium-quality tarpaulins lasting 3 months, and basic tarpaulins lasting 1 month to a total of 24,926 beneficiaries.

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EID ADHA PROJECT

In June 2024, our efforts to celebrate Eid brought food staples and the difficult to procure food of meat to many displaced families. We collaborated with Darfur Victims Advocacy Organization, Humanitarian Development and Promotion Organization, Fal Relief and Development Organization, Vienna Islamic Centre, and the Hadreen Organization to provide for families fleeing war and violence.

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MEDICAL CLINIC

Since October 2023, our initiative, with the support of several partners, has helped refugees with health care expertise provide urgent medical treatment for 150,000 Sudanese refugees from Al Geneina. The medical field clinic is overwhelmed but the refugees with medical training volunteer to provide an emergency room, small surgery room, general doctor, obstetrics and gynecology, laboratory, and pharmacy. While the clinic lacks essential resources, including electricity, fans, fencing, patient transport chairs and a kitchen to provide free meals to volunteers, it is one of the only medical clinics in the Adre Camp and provides life saving services.

How To Help

Donate - Volunteer - Advocate

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DONATE:

To bring aid to as many of the over 10 million*(1, 2) displaced Sudanese refugees we ask that you contribute to one of our fundraising campaigns in our linktr.ee page. Every donation matters in this time of crisis. The Saving Alginina Initiative has established relationships with refugees and officials in several camps in Chad. Over the past year SAI has built connections with displaced and remaining families across Sudan that give us unique access to provide food, hygiene supplies and medical treatment - this is especially important in a time when many routes of aide are blocked. Because we have been providing aide for over a year in the region we have developed a trust with the communities of refugees as we provide all we can to help them rebuild their life and restore their hope.

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VOLUNTEER

Please reach out to us at savingalginia@gmail.com to connect with our team. As a volunteer run organization we rely on each other to provide aid to displaced Sudanese families across Sudan and Chad. SAI is appreciative of help with any of the following skills or industries: Medicine, Medical Training, Medication and Vaccine Donations, Meal Preparation and Distribution, Education, Logistics, Accounting, Fundraising, and Social Media.

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ADVOCATE

When the war in Sudan erupted in June 2023 the Saving Alginina Initiative’s founders immediately began to work to heal the physical wounds and psychological trauma of surviving violent clashes between warring factions in the country. Nearly half of Sudan’s population, over 25 million people, need help. To save millions from violence and famine an international aide effort is needed. You can help by using your voice to petition your local representatives for humanitarian support and to encourage a peaceful resolution.

workforce training

How To Advocate

In the USA:

In Australia:

In Britain:

Tips:

  • Write/call/contact representatives on a regular basis. Daily is the most noticeable frequency.

  • The representative you are contacting will likely not read your message but one of their staffers/employees will. Then typically one of the staffers/employees will count how many messages there are per subject or issue and often the decision of what to focus on for their constituents is based on these messages.


Advocate for Unfreezing Our Accounts:

To buy food, medicine, and help provide incentives for doctors and nurses the Saving Alginina Initiative started several fundraising campaigns. Five fundraising accounts have been frozen by the platforms: PayPal, GoFundMe, US Treasury Department, and Australian government. They have even gone so far as to freeze the personal bank accounts of some of the individuals that helped us request donations. As a small, volunteer run, charitable organization our priority is medical treatment and then providing meals. Fighting to receive the funds our supporters have generously donated is an administrative struggle that impedes our ability to help people in crisis. Please contact these platforms and organizations to petition these companies and your representatives to unfreeze our accounts and release our funds so we may continue our life saving work. ***UPDATE - October 8, 2024: THANK YOU to our supporters and advocates! Thanks to your advocacy GoFundMe released the hold on your donations. We may now use these funds to provide essential services to the displaced people of Sudan. The Saving Alginina Initiative still has several fundraising platforms and governments that have stopped us from receiving your donations - please continue to advocate that these funds be released. From our hearts to yours - Thank you for your help. We could not do our work without your support.***


Resources for Advocacy:


Citations:
  1. 1. IOM
  2. 2. UNOCHA

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