Sudan is experiencing an absolutely dramatic situation, in which many of the hospitals do not function and almost all schools are closed. The civil war that has hit the African country for almost a year, leaving more than 12,000 dead, millions displaced and a humanitarian crisis without precedents.

Over there, Sudanese women and girls learn to shoot in the playground of his school. They need to stay alive to defend their families and decide to take up arms for their children or brothers, many of them inside, struggling between life and death. “We were never in the army, but they treated us like dogs,” explains one of those injured young people.

There are already nine million displaced by the conflict, according to the United Nations. “We are talking about the largest crisis of displacement of children in the worldis already on its way to four million,” laments Chema Vera, executive director of Unicef ​​Spain.

But the worst thing is hunger. “In many of the states where the conflict is concentrated and which were the largest food producers, They have not even been able to have the expected food of the last harvest,” explains Julia Pastor, director of International Cooperation of the Spanish Red Cross.

there is already 18 million people suffering from hungerbut, as Michael Dunford, regional director for East Africa of the World Food Programme, laments, with what is happening in Loop and in Ukraine, “many competing demands”. “We need more humanitarian actors present and being more active in these situations,” claims Dr. Christos Christou, international president of Doctors Without Borders.

Much more help is needed and also security to be able to deliver itsomething very dangerous due to “the violence, the terrain” and “the distances between some towns and others,” according to Eloísa Molina, from World Vision International.