Photo: Mazin Alrasheed | The Guardian
Each day, bowls are set on the ground in a line outside the community kitchen in Sururab, 25 miles north of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, for the 350 families who eat here. Community kitchens have been crucial to staving off famine in Sudan over a year and a half of a war that has displaced 11.5 million people. It is part of ground-level mutual aid food, medicine, water and shelter by Emergency Response Rooms that has provided key relief where foreign aid has been scarce, aided by the Sudanese diaspora. “Watching Sudanese individuals and groups take charge of their own destiny through localised, community-driven approaches reaffirms the power of self-determination,” says Haitham Elnour, a member of the Sudanese diaspora who supports the ERRs. “This approach does more than address immediate needs – it helps to cultivate a generation of youth and volunteers who are actively engaged in problem-solving, coordination, and service delivery.”
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