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Sudan
Key health facts
Life expectancy at time of birth: 65 years for females, 61 years for males
Infant’s mortality per 1000 birth: 49
Doctors per 1000 inhabitants: 0.3
Cap Anamur first was engaged in Sudan from 1985 to 1992. Since 1997 up till now we are on site with our project.
Situation in the country
Since decades Sudan is stage for hostile activities between the official government and rebel groups. The separation of South-Sudan from the north in 2011 intensified the fights mainly in the border-region of South-Kordofan, which was due to questionable election results not aligned with the south, but remained under control of Khartoum. Mainly the civilians suffer from the fights between the rebels and government troops and people have to flee from their home villages and seek shelter in the caves of the Nuba-mountains. Lack of food, poor water supply and bad health care make life in the mountains a fight for survival. But an escape to adjacent South-Sudan doesn’t promise improvement, as here the people get more and more involved in a civil war after the foundation of the state.
Our target
Medical care for people who flee from war and violence to the Nuba-mountains
Our Activities
By the end of the 1990s we established a huge hospital in the middle of the Nuba-mountains, which we operate up till now and which we developed with buildings and medical facilities. We offer our patients a broad spectrum of consultation and treatment as well as the possibility to be treated stationary when severely ill and when needed we offer surgery and follow up care. Our team of doctors and nurses not only works with the patients, but permanently educates local staff in various medical disciplines. We were able to extend our care system in a circle of about 100 kilometers by 6 outposts. All together we reach about 200,000 people a year. We fill the medicines stock every six month with a large shipment. Furthermore we run vaccination campaigns and thus immunize more than 42,000 children against polio, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, hepatitis and tetanus.
Project Reports:
World Refugee Day 2018
The annual World Refugee Day is supposed to raise awareness for those who were forced to flee their home countries due to violence, hunger, persecution […] Read more
Fighting Malaria and Hunger
“The longer I am here, the more I realize that we are at the most remote point on earth. Despite a small part of the […] Read more
20 years of aid in the Nuba-mountains-a review
“The Nuba-mountains always were somewhat mysterious.” This is how Ruppert Neudeck, founder of Cap Anamur, starts his project report about our work in South-Sudan in […] Read more
World Refugee Day 2017
Cap Anamur supports refugees all over the world For most people it is unimaginable to leave house, work, all belongings and sometimes even the family […] Read more
Heavy Rains in the Nuba Mountains
Normally at this time of the year you can hear singing in the Nuba Mountains. In fact, the inhabitants of the war-torn region in Sudan […] Read more
“The people here rely on us – today more than ever”
Johannes Plate, male nurse from Rostock, Germany is working in the Nuba-mountains since three years. What is special in this very remote project? Cap Anamur […] Read more
World Peace Day 2016
“You may forget where you buried the peace-pipe, but no one ever forgets where the hatchet is buried”. (Mark Twain) When we started to save refugees […] Read more
Challenging delivery of relief supplies
Our project in Sudan is located in the very remote region of the Nuba Mountains, which is why we can only deliver relief supplies twice […] Read more
My mission in the Nuba Mountains
by Juliane Grothe As I arrived in the Nuba Mountains in the South of Sudan, I was welcomed wholeheartedly and accepted instantly as a full […] Read more