Each day, bowls are set down 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 like these 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, and is part of a system of ground-level mutual aid that has provided key relief where foreign aid has been scarce.
While community kitchens feed, other necessities and support are provided by organisations called Emergency Response Rooms, which are often neighbourhood-based. The Sudanese diaspora has also helped, by fundraising for these grassroots efforts or providing medical advice through telemedicine services.
