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Announcement Letter to Supporters
A New Chapter: The Eritrean Foundation for Social Justice and Development is now Social Impact and Development Foundation (SIDF)
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Since we began our journey as the Eritrean Foundation, your commitment has allowed us to create meaningful change and support our community in ways we never thought possible. Today, we are thrilled to share an exciting update about our future.
To better reflect the growing scope of our work and our vision for broader community empowerment, we have officially rebranded as the Social Impact and Development Foundation (SIDF).
Why the Change?
As we have grown, so has our mission. While our roots and our dedication to the community remain unchanged, our new name—Social Impact and Development Foundation—better encompasses the diverse projects, partnerships, and development initiatives we are leading today. This change represents our evolution into an organization that serves as a catalyst for sustainable growth and long-term impact.
What This Means for You
- Our Mission Remains the Same: We are the same team, with the same heart and the same dedication to service. Only our name and look are evolving.
- New Digital Home: You can now find us at our new website: socialimpactdev.org. Please update your bookmarks!
- New Contact Info: You can reach us at our new primary email: info@socialimpactdev.org.
- Donations: Our donation process remains secure and easy. You may notice our new name, SIDF, on your future receipts and bank statements.
Join Us in This Journey
This rebrand is more than just a new logo or a new website; it is a commitment to doing more, reaching further, and creating a deeper social impact. We couldn’t do this without you.
Thank you for being the foundation of our success. We look forward to continuing this work together under our new name.
With gratitude,
The Board & Staff of Social Impact and Development Foundation (SIDF)
Help Save Lives
Help Save the Lives of Mothers and Children
The Social Impact and Development Foundation (SIDF) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit humanitarian organization registered in the United States of America and dedicated to providing relief aid to desperate Eritrean refugees and displaced communities in East Africa, particularly those in Eastern Sudan and neighboring countries. Right now, countless lives are at risk.
Eritrean refugees and displaced Sudanese communities due to the ongoing civil war are suffering unimaginable hardships—especially mothers and young children. These communities are suffering from lack of access to food, clean water and medical care. The lack of medical care to mothers and young children has resulted in an exceptionally high death rate. Mothers are dying from preventable complications, including postpartum bleeding due to the absence of basic, life-saving medications like Vitamin K—an essential drug that costs just pennies.
We must act now.
We, the SIDF, have initiated an urgent effort to build a Health Care Clinic in the mostly affected area that can provide critical maternal and child health services. This facility can greatly reduce the suffering and provide some critically needed medical services for mothers during pregnancy as well as to their new born children.
How Can You Help
Your generous donation can:
✔ Provide life-saving medications for mothers and newborns
✔ Fund the construction of the medical clinic to serve vulnerable communities
✔ Supply essential medical equipment and trained healthcare professionals
✔ Reduce the alarming maternal and child mortality rates
Every contribution counts and can definitely save lives.
Donate Today:
Thank you for your support,
Social Impact and Development (SIDF)
The Crisis
The UNHCR estimates that there are currently about 500,000 Eritrean refugees in eastern Sudan, but the actual number is likely much higher. A large number of refugees arrived over a long period, beginning with the war of independence in the 1960s. Over time, they escaped their country due to war and internal conflicts and are unable to return because of ongoing political unrest. In recent years, an additional influx of refugees, particularly young people, arrived in neighboring countries such as Sudan, Ethiopia, and Yemen due to forced military service, the spill over of the war in Tigray, and various forms of violence. These refugees have been and are in desperate need of life-saving humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, and clean water. Additionally, there is a need for education and support for orphans.
We at Social Impact and Development Foundation are dedicated to helping and supporting these refugees. Despite our limited resources, we have provided considerable support in the past few years, and we are appealing to the world to help us help them. We are dedicated volunteers, part of the regional society, and we deeply care about these refugees. As volunteers, we have negligible management costs for our services and can deliver quickly. Please support the Eritrean refugees.
Sincerely,
Social Impact and Development Foundation.
Refugee Camps with acute lack of medical services
Many Eritrean refugee camps in Eastern Sudan such as Wad Sharifai and Kilo 26 in the state of Kassala and Shagarab-I, II and III in the state of Gadarif face existential problems including clean drinking water, lack of medical care and food shortages. In the case of medical care, there is an acute shortage of medical supplies and services. There are no adequate medical services that can provide sufficient health services to meet the extreme health care necessity for the refugee camps. There are some private health providers that require considerable financial ability. The Sudanese public health system is not equipped to serve patients in the refugee camps, and even if it is reached for help, do not have the medical resources to provide free medications or perform surgeries. Therefore, the Eritrean refugees in Eastern Sudan are under continuous medical emergency.
We believe there is an even more urgent need to help pregnant women in the refugee camps. There is a complete lack of services in this category. The maternal mortality during pregnancy or childbirth is alarmingly high. For example, many expecting mothers die at home or on their way to a city hospital due to a lack of medication to stop bleeding.
We at Social Impact and Development Foundation can make a difference with your help. We plan to build a comprehensive medical clinic for pregnant women, providing physical examinations, essential medications, lab tests, and nutritional guidance during pregnancy and after childbirth. Please support us to complete this project with your generous donations (tax-deductible in the US).
For more information, please contact us at info@socialimpactdev.org
or call us at 14808487330
Kassala State health Situation report
June-2022
Introduction: Kassala State is located in the Eastern part of the Country. The state shares an international border with Eritrea to the East, the Red Sea State from the north, Khartoum State and the River Nile State in the west and by Al-Gedaref State to the south western.The State’s area is 42,282 kilometers square with total population of 2,662,220 persons. It is composed of eleven localities, nine of these
localities are primarily rural in composition while the two localities of Kassala Town and New Halfa are urban centers. The State is characterized by Longterm poverty, under development,high malnutrition rate , cyclic disease outbreaks (AWD, DF, Measles, chik, etc), high prevalence rate of endemic diseases (Malaria, TB, schistosomiasis ), Prone to natural disasters like floods (Algash river) and drought, Presence of refugee camps (83,071 refugees ), long and open international borders with Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Kassala State Health indicators
Refugee Camps with acute lack of medical services
1. Epidemic diseases
The State keeps monitoring trends of epidemic diseases through 158 sentinel reporting sites distributed in twelve localities according to the population density, epidemiological map of endemic diseases and history of epidemics. The completeness of the reports from sentinel reporting sites is 90%.
1.2 Malaria:
Malaria remains the main cause of morbidity during first have of 2022;during this year the State has reported 68,532 malaria cases with Stateincidence 257cases per 10,000 population compared to 691 case per 10,000 population, reported during last year, highest number of cases as well highest Incidence rate are reported from Rural Algirba locality
1.3 Dysentery:
Dysentery is the second cause of morbidity in Kassala State after malaria during first have of 2022, the State has reported 9,633 cases during this year, with State incidence rate 36 cases per 10,000 population, highest incidence is 126/10,000 Pop reported from NhreAtbra locality.
1.4 Typhoid fever
During first have of 2022 the State reported 7,5011Typhoid fever cases, mainly from Rural NhreAtbra and New Halfa localities which reported 114 and 58 cases per 10,000 population respectively compared to State incidence rate 28 cases per 10,000 population,
Other endemic deseases
Schistosomiasis is endemic at Girba, New Halfa and NhreAtbra localities, during this year the three localities reported 4080 cases, compared to 5,321 cases reported during 2020,
2.Diseases outbreaks (Epidemics)
2.1 Coivd-19 epidemic:
Covid-19 outbreak continue during 2022 and the State has reported 715 cases associated with 132 deaths since the beginning of the outbreak, CFR is 18%,
Majority of the cases (60%) are reported from Kassala locality, followed by New Halfa locality. 57% of the cases are above 60 years of age and 62% are male
2.2 Dengue Fever outbreak:
DF outbreak started in 5th August 2021 when one case from Kassala locality Al Murbaat Area, then no suspected cases reported till 15 August, when second suspected case reported from Banat area in Kassala locality. last case was reported in Feb 2022, the accumulative reported cases are 915 and zero related deaths,the cases are reported from Kassala, West Kassala and rural Kassala localities, attack rate. 85% of reported cases are from Kassala localities and with the localities there are clustering of cases in Alhalanga, Almurabaat and Hai Al-Arab arears. 89Samples are collected and sent to NPHL at Khartoum for further investigation, 25 samples shown positive result for DF, 61 samples were negative and 3 samples are in adequate.
Female cases represent 48% of total cases while Male cases counted 52%. 10to 30 years of age are the most affected age group (42%).
About us
Social Impact and Development Foundation (SIDF) is a nonprofit organization registered officially in the United States.
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