We are actively involved in building self-sustainable short and long term development projects in addition to providing relief and humanitarian assistance that foster self-reliance, self-directness and preserves human dignity for the sake of the disadvantaged groups in Sudan. By reading these stories, you will meet the beneficiaries of HCI programs and you will learn about the power ordinary people have to change their own lives. You will also learn about the power caring people have to help them to do so.
Sudan
Mar 152010
The Sudanese Association for Disability and Rehabilitation in Fasher area, north of Darfur region in Sudan was established in 1987. HCI relationship with SADR started in 2003 when HCI supported the development of the SADR’s library with books and training materials about small income generation activities. With the help of HCI, SADR has now 2865 [...]
HCI Helps Provide a Proper Eid Feast
Adahi, Egypt, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Dec 162009
Understanding the culture and living conditions of the local communities we work with is part of HCI’s philosophy while serving these communities, especially at times such as Eid when great importance is placed on reviving and enjoying the traditional aspects of local culture. In addition, these traditions serve to strengthen community ties and embody important [...]
Today’s Orphans, Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs: Unleashing the Economic Potential of Sudan’s Orphans
Entrepreneurs, Livelihoods and Enterprise, Orphans, Sudan
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Oct 282009
The number of orphans and children from single mother-headed households in Sudan has risen dramatically over the past few years due to war, natural disasters, and other crises. Poverty and economic hardship also have added to children born out of wedlock who, according to Sudanese law, are considered orphans. Since 2003, HCI has been addressing [...]
Ramadan 2009: HCI's Experiences around the Arab World
Egypt, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan, West Bank
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Oct 072009
For the Muslim world, the month of Ramadan is traditionally a time for inner reflection, devotion to God, self control, and fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also a particularly joyous time when relatives and friends invite each other over to gather around a table and break the fast together-Iftar-and above all a time [...]
Sudan Dairy; Building Capacities and Unlocking the Potential of Widows and Orphans
Education and Empowerment, Livelihoods and Enterprise, Orphans, Sudan, Woman, Youth
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Jul 082009
In May 2009, the HCI team launched two projects in Sudan that will provide credit capital and the necessary training and coaching to two new communities in two settlements in the south and the north of the capital Khartoum as well as a project which will promote entrepreneurial spirit among impoverished Sudanese orphans, and giving [...]
Celebrating the Arab Orphan Day
Child Sponsorship, Children, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Orphans, Palestine, Sudan, West Bank
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Apr 012009
“My name is Abeer. I snuck into the pocket space under the stairs and settled on a worn rubber tire. I took into myself a rusty-bladed knife in a box of wood shavings, and watched the crystal bubbles in clear olive-oil jugs, and mourned. My fuzz-head torn-shorts brother sat cross-legged on the ground beside me, [...]
Video: HCI Helps Provide a Proper Eid Feast
Adahi, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan, West Bank
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Dec 172008
The second and the third day of Eid Al-Adha dawned windy–one of the most important events in the Muslim calendar both religiously and socially — rainy and cold, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of HCI team in Middle East, assisted by volunteers and local partners, determined to see that the poorest of the poor [...]
War, Occupation, Catastrophe, Poverty, Illness
Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Nov 032008
There are five people sitting in the same dirt-yard. The first is an old man; he is a vegetable peddler. He is aged, and the limbs of his body seem to rage against each other. There is no coordination in his movements, he is ragged, one of his eyes has been put out and the [...]
HCI Expands Badly-Needed Health Services for Displaced Sudanese
Health and Sanitation, Sudan
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Oct 242008
For the past five years, HCI has been working for the well being of the estimated 11,000 internally displaced people of Salama settlement, who have fled the violence in the south and west of their country and now live south of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Here they face chronic poverty, both high unemployment and [...]
Honoring Ramadan Traditions in Sudan, Extending Help to the Poor
Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Oct 082008
The Holy Month of Ramadan is a time for inner reflection by Muslims, devotion to God, self control, and fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also a particularly joyous time when relatives and friends invite each other over to gather around a table and break the fast together–Iftar–and above all a time of giving [...]
