Be My Home

· Civil wars that went on for nearly 50 years

· A hostile desert climate

· Food shortages

· Extreme poverty

· Homelessness

The people of the East African nation of North Sudan face these hardships every day. And always, it’s the children who are most vulnerable when their world is in chaos. It’s estimated that 80,000 Sudanese children are homeless, with a large number of these abandoned children living on the streets and in the sewers of the capitol city, Khartoum. They beg for money and scavenge in garbage cans for food. They have no access to healthcare or education. They steal. They are routinely subjected to physical and sexual abuse. They die from drug overdoses.

Under Islamic Sharia law, the only law that has been in effect in Sudan since 1983, homeless girls suffer the most. They have no legal rights if they were born out of wedlock and abandoned by their families. If they become pregnant while living on the street, they can be sentenced, under Sharia Law, to flogging imprisonment, and even death. Street girls find it nearly impossible to improve their status through marriage or any other means. Their lives are short and cruel.

Be My Home is working hard to protect displaced children, especially these girls and their babies. They deserve a future that offers them dignity and hope. 

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