Tag: Famine

• Facing Starvation in Sudan

  

  Half of Sudan’s population face acute hunger. Because very few of us can imagine how dire the situation is, I cross-post Unreported World’s documentary from the frontline of today’s hunger crisis in the Nuba Mountains.

  Jennie

  March 27, 2025

  Cross-Posts, Humanitarian Aid, Sudan, Video

  Famine, Refugees, war

• In Gratitude for USAID

  

  An open-letter to my representatives in Congress (Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Eric Schmitt, and Congressman Sam Graves) about how one USAID program may have saved my husband’s life.

  Jennie

  January 30, 2025

  Advocacy, Humanitarian Aid, Jennie’s Posts, Sudan, USA

  Congress, Eric Schmitt, Famine, gratitude, Humanitarian Aid, Josh Hawley, Sam Graves, Sudan, USAID

• USAID’s Work in Sudan Saved My Husband’s Village

  

  USAID saved lives with emergency food that reached my husband’s village during famine. One friend in his village, born in the 1980s, is named “Reagan” – in honor of the President who began sending U.S.-farmed sorghum to keep Sudanese people alive. My husband, who was just learning to read English, clearly remembered reading “FROM THE…

  Jennie

  January 28, 2025

  Cross-Posts, Humanitarian Aid, South Sudan, Sudan, USA

  Famine, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, State Department, Sudan, USAID