Right now, there’s a humanitarian crisis unfolding in South Sudan you may not have heard of — and 14-year-old Asia* is living through it.

In 2023, conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. 13 million people, including Asia’s mother Suat made the difficult decision to flee their homes seeking safety and security.  

Asia and Suat have now been in a refugee camp with 20,000 others for more than a year. Their new home is a transit camp, designed to accommodate a max of 5,000 people for a few days.  

It has a severe shortage of food, medicine, clean water and proper sanitation, and overcrowding has led to the rapid spread of disease like cholera.  

Urgent humanitarian aid is needed now. Will you donate now and help provide people like Asia and Suat with the clean water, hygiene kits, essential supplies and cash assistance they need to survive? 

Leaving home was very terrible but we had no choice.

– Asia*, 14, a refugee from Sudan

Living in an overcrowded refugee camp, Asia and Suat and are still searching for safety.  

Refugees like Asia and Suat need urgent humanitarian support to survive. The media is under-reporting this conflict, and with cuts to government humanitarian aid, we need your help now more than ever.  

The spread of diseases, including cholera, is preventable with the right sanitation, clean water and hygiene. But action is needed now. 

Will you donate today and provide clean water, hygiene kits, essential supplies and cash assistance to refugees like Asia and Suat who are still searching for safety?

*Name changed to protect identity

I used to think what my children would not eat in the morning, and evening. But after I got support from Oxfam, my children has never gone hungry

– Shaima, a refugee from Sudan

Like Asia and Suat, Shaima lives in the camp in Renk, South Sudan. But thanks to supporters like you, she’s been given support that’s transformed her life. This is her story: 

“I came from Medani, Sudan, on 1 January 2024. When I came here, I was six months pregnant with Fahima. The situation was so difficult. I was pregnant and had to go to the forest to collect firewood for sale. 

I was the one responsible for everything at home. When I gave birth, I was sleeping down (on the floor) with my daughter and an insect bit on Fahima (my child) causing wound. 

So, the money Oxfam gave me, I used for buying a bed where all my children would sleep on. And I was happy. There is no snake or scorpion that can reach them on the bed. It has changed my life for better. 

When the organisation [Oxfam] helped me, and I stopped going to the forest and started a small business to support myself. I received cash of SSP 200,000 (about AUD $50). With the money, the first thing I did was to buy baby kits. 

I bought oil, baby clothes and cotton wool because I did not have mama kit. I took a little amount from that money to start a small shop.” 

Shaima is proof that your gift can be life-changing. Your support is critical in addressing this growing crisis and providing long term support to people like Asia, Suat and Shaima.  

Will you donate today to provide clean water, hygiene kits, essential supplies and cash assistance to refugees who are still searching for safety?