Photo: The New Humanitarian
Communal kitchens are assisting hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan’s embattled capital, Khartoum, providing regular meals and social and emotional support amid a deepening famine. Run by neighborhood-based mutual aid groups called emergency response rooms, the kitchens are struggling with funding gaps, security threats, and communications and electricity blackouts. As a result, many kitchens only offer one meal per day, while some have cut back to a single meal per week, or temporarily closed down. The local and diaspora funding that sustains the kitchens is reaching its limits, and emergency response rooms have received only a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars international donors have provided to humanitarian actors in Sudan.
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