She is 10 years old, an orphan and all alone. In her short life, Achut has known more violence and death than most of us would dare to imagine. Forced from home, she faces unimaginable hardships and challenges.

As conflict continues, women are among the hardest hit—facing violence and limited care. Nestled in the heart of Blue Nile State, the Abu Ramad Women’s Centre, stands as a beacon of hope and resilience for Sudanese women, where they are acquiring new skills for a livelihood.

Young Adoum fled Sudan with family after war tore through their home. Now sheltering in a makeshift hut, Adoum is dangerously malnourished. They escaped war, but survival is still a daily fight.

4-year-old Saba, now living in Farchana Camp, dreams of a future built on education and peace. After fleeing brutal violence in Sudan, she has found physical safety—but the trauma of war lingers.

A new global Ipsos study conducted on behalf of World Vision International in 16 countries reveals that 2 in 10 children have gone to bed hungry in the last 30 days. 

Children of Syria are still calling for their right to receive an education. War didn’t silence their voices, they kept getting louder than ever. “We want to go back to school” they kept chanting.

As fighting continued to escalate in Sudan between rival factions of the military government, thousands of people, the majority women and children, have been forced to flee to neighboring countries. Fatha, a mother of 6 fled to the border with her four children. Her other two children have gone missing. One of her children, that is missing, was injured on the head when the shelling happened in their town. 

For many South Sudanese refugees living in Sudan, a conflict forced them to leave their homes. Now, it is again because of conflict that has left them with no choice but to return. The recent crisis in Sudan has been forcing many people to leave their homes for safer places to live. For 13-year-old Tina, returning to South Sudan to flee from the ongoing conflict in Sudan brought back painful memories. It was like reliving a nightmare that she wished she never had.

The crisis in Sudan is driving South Sudanese refugees living in the country to return home, only to find themselves lost in troubled borders with no homes to return to and constantly living in fear of the unknowns. When we met, Ajang, 35, she was struggling bare-handed to set up a makeshift tent in the transit camp in Renk, a county in South Sudan’s Upper Nile region where most of the arrivals – Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees – enter through one of South Sudan’s border points.