Our Work
We’re helping local heroes in Sudan build a better future from the ground up, and with the help of supporters like you, we’re making tangible progress every day.
The most oppressed people in Sudan live in the rural periphery regions of the country. Despite the immense pain and suffering brought on by decades of war and genocide, the hope for change in these communities is fiercely contagious.
This is where we’ve focused all of our efforts from the beginning. We work with carefully-chosen indigenous partners to bring childhood education and community healthcare to the most vulnerable populations with the greatest needs.
Where We Work
Our primary partners operate in the southern Nuba Mountains region and nearby Yida Refugee Camp.
The Nuba Mountains are home to several dozen African tribal groups who trace their beautiful history back 2,000 years. The 1.3 million Christian, Muslim, and traditionalist Nuba people live mostly in harmony together.
Sadly, the Nuba way of life is under threat. The regime in Khartoum sees the tolerant Nuba people as a threat to their iron-fisted rule. The Sudanese military and their now former paramilitary allies have committed two genocides against the Nuba people since the 1990s.
Fighting remains ongoing in the Nuba Mountains today. Learn more.
Our Approach
Operation Broken Silence is building a global movement to empower the Sudanese people through innovative programs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
We work diligently to identify local Sudanese community leaders, teachers, and healthcare workers who are already making a difference in the lives of their people. We get to know each other. We hear their triumphs and hardships. What makes them celebrate and what makes them weep. What their dreams are and what they need to get there.
And then the real work begins.
Direct Partnerships
In 2014, our supporters began funding four Nuba teachers in Yida Refugee Camp who were holding class underneath a tree with a half-broken chalkboard.
With the support from our movement, the teachers have blossomed their efforts into the Endure Primary and Renewal Secondary Schools, where 24 Nuba teachers serve over 1,157 students every week.
Over 10,000 children have been positively impacted through this partnership to date.
Education
In 2016, our supporters began fundraising for Mother of Mercy Hospital and their string of community clinics in the the Nuba Mountains. This is the only referral hospital in the region and is critical to the survival of the Nuba people, and their ability to thrive.
The hospital and clinics are staffed by a growing team of indigenous doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers. A small group of internationals serve at the hospital to provide training for current and future healthcare workers. Together, they serve upwards of 150,000 patients a year.
Healthcare
From 2022-2023, our supporters fundraised for a complex clean water system that will benefit roughly 7,000 people across five villages that were hit especially hard during the war in the Nuba Mountains. Our local partner has received the funding for the project. Final preparations for the dig and pump installation are on hold due to the war in Sudan.
Clean Water
From June-December 2023, a small team of Sudanese partners helped roughly 1,900 refugees navigate RSF violence in southern Darfur and cross safely into South Sudan. Security conditions have deteriorated following the RSF overrunning the region and made continuing this work untenable. We are now doing humanitarian work (food, clothing, etc.) for Darfuri refugees in South Sudan.
We aren’t releasing any information that can identify these heroes. They hope to continue working in Darfur one day and their anonymity will be required to do so. We are providing occasional updates though.
Southern Darfur Escape & Relief
Fundraising Partnerships
Operation Broken Silence also provides fundraising support to people-to-people initiatives. These programs originally came to life as the combined efforts of Sudanese refugee leaders/diaspora and American activists. Program updates are handled by the leaders of these people-to-people efforts, with most giving and fundraising running through us.
Many survivors of RSF war crimes in West Darfur have fled into eastern Chad, particularly the refugee camp at the border town of Adré.
Refugee and healthcare leaders in the camp have organized small feeding programs and two medical clinics to provide food and care to the most vulnerable, particularly orphaned children and the disabled.
Adré Medical Clinics
Team Zamzam consists of 20 female counselors serving victims of sexual violence in Zamzam displaced persons camp in North Darfur. They have served more than 4,000 women to date with counseling that helps alleviate the depression, isolation, and shame that come with violent sexual assaults.
The counselors also arrange for reparative surgeries for women suffering from traumatic fistulas following sexual assault. They fund the surgery and provide extensive pre and post-operative care since medical costs are beyond the means of victims.
Darfur Sexual Violence Response
During the height of the second war (2012-2016) in the Nuba Mountains, our supporters fundraised for emergency food and medical supply deliveries to frontline communities in the Nuba Mountains. Improved security that began in 2016 has allowed for the Nuba people to largely stabilize baseline food demands, eliminating the need for this work. Over 22,000 people benefited directly from these aid deliveries.
From 2016-2022, our movement supported two promising high school graduates as they pursued college degrees in Kenya and Uganda. Both students have now graduated. This program has been temporarily paused due to funding constraints.
Retired Programs
Say hello to one of our partners.
We will see a renewed Sudan in our lifetime.
It won’t happen overnight. But with spreading hope and generous determination in Sudan and around the world, the possibility of a better future is growing. A future in which every man, woman, and child in Sudan thrives. There is still much work to be done. Will you join us by making a donation to these heroes?
$200: Supports a teacher for one month.
$150: Pays a nurse assistant’s salary for an entire month.
$100: Provides pencils, notebooks, and other basic school supplies for 16 students.
$50: Gives the gift of sport with nets, balls, and more.
Checks can be make payable to Operation Broken Silence and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900.
Join Miles For Sudan | Donate Stock | Give Crypto
Operation Broken Silence is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Your donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law.