Access to clean water and sanitation is vital for children and their families, particularly in crisis situations. Save the Children's WASH programme envisions a world where every child has the right to survival, protection, and development. Our efforts focus on ensuring that children have access to safe water, sanitation, hygiene essentials, and effective waste management, helping them maintain basic hygiene. Through these interventions, we aim to create lasting improvements driving transformational change in children’s lives.

Impact of Conflict

  • Damage to infrastructure, fuel shortages, displacement and restricted humanitarian access have left many communities without safe drinking water, toilets or washing facilities. 

  • 28 million people are currently in need of water, sanitation and hygiene services across Sudan. 

  • Displaced families are often sheltering in overcrowded sites where sanitation is extremely limited and waste management systems are either damaged or non-existent, leading to the spread of preventable diseases, including cholera, which has already taken a devastating toll.

  • For children, the lack of clean water and hygiene facilities increases the risk of deadly illnesses and undermines their dignity, health and overall wellbeing.

Our Response

  • We are working to ensure access to clean water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene promotion activities to prevent the spread of diseases in displacement sites and conflict-affected communities.
  • These services include:
    • Trucking clean water, setting up water storage points,
    • Water quality monitoring and water management
    • Distributing hygiene kits and promoting safe hygiene practices
    • Service provision, including construction, rehabilitation, or upgrading of WASH facilities (boreholes, hand pumps, water yards, latrines)
    • Environmental sanitation and hygiene (solid waste management)