| Administrative History | Allocations: 1951-1955, 1972-1992, programme spending in 1993/94, 1994/95. See later annual reports for any subsequent allocations.
In 1949 SCF's medical adviser, Dr Leslie Housden, visited Sudan at the request of the Governor-General to make a survey of child life and child mortality in the country. In June 1950 SCF sent a medical and nursing team to work at Torit, Tirangole, and the surrounding villages, to tackle problems of malaria and poor nutrition. The team had to withdraw in 1954 due to the worsening political situation, and work was handed over to the Sudan Medical Service.
In 1972 an agreement was signed which ended 17 years of civil war in south Sudan. At the request of the Sudanese government, SCF returned to Sudan to assist refugees returning home from neighbouring countries and remote areas of the Sudan. SCF set up a mother and child health unit, Rural Sanitation scheme, mobile dispensary, and immunisation programme at Torit in south Sudan. SCF handed over the programme in Torit in 1982.
During the 1970s hundreds of thousands of refugees came to east Sudan from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda and Chad. In 1980, in answer to an appeal for help from UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), SCF sent a medical team to help refugees in Gedaref and set up a feeding programme for refugees at the nearby Um Gulja camp (later moved to Tawawa). SCF provided assistance to refugees in various locations in east Sudan including Wad Kowli, Safawa camp, and Derudeb. SCF continued to work with refugees in east Sudan into the 1990s. From 1984-1986, SCF ran a large-scale food relief operation at Umballa Refugee camp in West Sudan, home to refugees from Chad and displaced people of Sudan.
During the 1980s and 1990s SCF provided assistance in Khartoum. Projects included supporting the Children's Emergency Hospital and the government's Khartoum Comprehensive Child Health Care (KCCHC) programme, setting up nutrition and education programmes in the displaced settlements of Greater Khartoum, and assisting with the EPI (Expanded Programme of Immunization).
During the 1980s SCF began a programme of supplementary feeding and medical services in Port Sudan. Work in the Port Sudan area expanded throughout the 1980s and 1990s, to include a Health Clinic, Feeding Centre, and projects relating to sanitation, water supply, health education, women's programme, playgroups, adult literacy and youth programmes.
Following arrival of Sudanese refugees from Ethiopia in 1991, SCF set up relief operations and education projects in South Sudan, including feeding programmes in Waat, 1992-1994, livestock and fishing projects, and funding for the Yei country programme. |