Gifts to Sudan
Fishermen in silhouette on the Nile bank at sunset

You are not forgotten.

Gifts, not charity. What you give becomes a gift for a family in Sudan: flour and lentils, oil and tea, a cooking pot, a warm blanket, bought in Sudan's own markets and handed over with respect.

Illustrative photo. Photo: Javascripta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

Gifts, not charity

A gift says something charity cannot always say: you matter to me. So we do not hand families an envelope of "help". We buy what a home needs, wrap it with care, and give it the way you would give to a cousin or a neighbour, quietly, at their door, with no queue, and no camera unless the family wants one.

Why a gift, and not charity?

Rows of plates of rice and food laid out to be shared
Illustrative photo. Photo: Mohimahmed001, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

How it works, in three steps

Two hands holding a round loaf of bread wrapped in cloth
Illustrative photo. Photo: Kate Remmer studioktr, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence)

1. You give.

Send a gift in USDT or USDC from anywhere in the world.

Heaps of spices and hibiscus at the Omdurman spice souq
Illustrative photo. Photo: Mohammed Abuelgasim, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

2. We shop in Sudan.

The volunteers change your gift into local currency through an exchange, then buy food in Sudan's own markets, dates from Sudanese farmers among it, so the money also keeps Sudan's farms and markets alive.

A large Sudanese tray of shared dishes and bread
Illustrative photo. Photo: الرفيع الريح, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

3. A family receives a gift.

Handed over privately, recorded in our public ledger under a family code, never a name.

The ledger opens with the first gift. Every dollar will be shown here, from the wallet to the family. See the ledger

The verse that guides us

«لَّا خَيْرَ فِي كَثِيرٍ مِّن نَّجْوَاهُمْ إِلَّا مَنْ أَمَرَ بِصَدَقَةٍ أَوْ مَعْرُوفٍ أَوْ إِصْلَاحٍ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ ۚ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ ابْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاتِ اللَّهِ فَسَوْفَ نُؤْتِيهِ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا»

"There is no good in much of their private talk, except for one who calls for charity, or for what is kind and right (ma'ruf), or for setting things right between people. Whoever does that seeking the pleasure of God, We will give him a great reward."

Qur'an 4:114 (Arabic text: Tanzil, verbatim). The English is a meaning, not a word-for-word translation. We invite you to the middle of the three, ma'ruf: kindness, the gift; and to the last, mending what is between people: letting families know they are not forgotten, and letting love and compassion travel between people, whatever their race, religion or origin.

Children's small hands resting on their grandmother's hand
Illustrative photo. Photo: Hlmb, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

Kindness is a legacy

"Lots of people are kind to their children because someone was kind to them. So this is legacy. Acts of good have generational effect."

The Gifts to Sudan volunteers

A loaf of bread is eaten in a day. The memory that a stranger thought of you can last a lifetime, and be passed on.

Read: Kindness is a legacy

«صنائعُ المعروفِ تَقي مصارعَ السوءِ»

"Acts of kindness protect against evil ends."

Reported by al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir from Abu Umamah, with a chain al-Albani graded hasan (Sahih al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib). Some other hadith scholars judged some of its chains weak.

Whether or not you are a person of faith, it is a beautiful idea: kindness given away does not disappear. It returns, often when we least expect it, as protection and as goodness. It is not a bargain or a threat; it is how kindness tends to work.

Volunteers

Everyone here is a volunteer. Nobody is paid from what you give. If you can write, translate, check numbers or build websites, an hour a week makes a difference.

Rows of cooking pots seen from above over wood fires
Illustrative photo. Taken in Bangladesh, not in Sudan. Photo: Al Muztaba Rosul, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

We are a volunteer initiative, not a registered charity, and we hold no licence. 100% of what you give buys gifts; we cover the fees on our side ourselves, and the ledger shows them. Read our promises