What We Do

At Forces for Change, we think sustainable development starts with empowering families. We help communities take charge of their futures. We focus on two main areas: Family-Focused Programs and Human Rights Advocacy. We give Sudanese families the tools, resources, and support they need. This helps them become self-sufficient, resilient, and dignified.

Our Family-Focused Programs

Small businesses for self-sufficiency:

We help people and families start and run small businesses. This provides them with stability and independence. Our initiatives include:

Agricultural Development: Growing produce and processing it into value-added products.
Livestock Farming: Raising poultry, goats, sheep, and small animals for meat and dairy.
Fishing Industry Support: Providing fishing equipment, training, and marketing opportunities for seafood sales.
Artisan & Craft Industry: Supports local crafts such as textile weaving, pottery, jewelry making, and wood carving.
Community Retail: Establishing small grocery stores that provide essential goods to local communities.
Service-Based Businesses: We help set up beauty salons, barber shops, and more.

Microfinance and Entrepreneurial Support

We give financial help and business training. This helps people, especially women and marginalized groups, build and keep their livelihoods. Our support includes:

Child Sponsorship

We have several sponsorship options that help children in need.

Direct Sponsorship: One-on-one sponsorship providing food, healthcare, and education.
Community-Based Sponsorship: Supporting entire communities in creating sustainable solutions for children's welfare.
In-Kind Sponsorship: Providing essential supplies, such as school materials, clothing, and food packages.

Access to Clean Water

We aim to ensure that all Sudanese families have access to safe and clean water, as water is life. Our water initiatives include:

Access to healthcare.

We bridge the healthcare gap in Sudan’s marginalized communities by providing:

Volunteer healthcare professionals for direct medical support.
Mobile health clinics to reach remote areas.
Training for community health workers to improve local healthcare services.
Rural health clinics that offer essential care.
Telehealth and telemedicine programs for increased accessibility.

Empowering farming families.

Agriculture is the backbone of many Sudanese communities. Our programs provide farmers with:

Advocacy for fair policies and access to resources.
Microfinance opportunities to invest in farming operations.
Nafeer (community crowdfunding) to support farming initiatives.
Support for produce transportation and market access.
Assistance in forming farmer cooperatives to strengthen community resilience.

Our Human Rights Advocacy programs

Ending Ethnic Violence

We take a strong stance against all forms of ethnic violence and discrimination. Our advocacy includes:

Combating Gender-Based Violence

We work to protect vulnerable individuals from gender-based violence through:

Advocating for Women’s and Girls' Rights

We stand against harmful practices and work toward a future where all women and girls can thrive. Our efforts include:

Shelter and Housing Advocacy

We help displaced families rebuild their lives by:

Setting up temporary housing for refugees.
Building permanent homes using sustainable, locally sourced materials.
Collaborating with international organizations for housing solutions.
Running Nafeer campaigns to fund and build homes for displaced families.

Food Security and Clean Water Advocacy

We want every Sudanese family to have nutritious food and clean water. Our initiatives include:

Ensuring Access to Healthcare

We advocate for policies that improve healthcare accessibility by:

Vision

To create a replicable philanthropic model that empowers disadvantaged families and their communities to use their local resources for the betterment of their lives.

Mission

Our mission is based on our belief that the growth and the development of a disadvantaged family requires dedication, compassion and a holistic approach.
We believe it takes a community to lift a family out of poverty therefore we engage disadvantaged families and their communities as interdependent units.
We follow a three-pronged approach: Empower families to embrace change, engage their communities as partners and our enlightened youth as facilitators.
We equip our enlightened young people of Sudan with the needed tools and means to educate and guide our poor families to embrace our mission and bring about change in their households and communities.
Our family-centric holistic approach leverages the potential of all members of a disadvantaged family.

Partnerships

We recruit and partner with any nonprofit that believes in our vision and mission of fighting poverty and marginalization.

We allow independent philanthropic groups to use our tools and means to transform the lives of their chosen families and communities.

At Forces for Change, we believe change is possible. Families, communities, and advocates can unite to create a fair and just society. We aim to support Sudan’s vulnerable people through our programs. We focus on creating lasting chances for growth and stability.

Our special focus is on the needs of Sudan’s indigenous people:

Indigenous populations in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, and Blue Nile State have endured decades of social and economic injustices. In addition, they are disproportionately affected by the ongoing war, facing displacement, violence, and humanitarian crises due to ethnic and political conflicts.

Darfur: The region has been the scene of prolonged instability and conflict, with ethnic and political tensions. The conflict between the government forces and indigenous populations in 2003 resulted in a genocide. Currently, the conflict between the former government allies destroyed hundreds of villages and drove millions of indigenous tribes into displaced people’s camps and across Chad into refugee camps.

Nuba Mountains: The Nuba people of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state, have faced violence and displacement. The Nuba Mountains have been a site of conflict, with the Sudanese government and Arab militias targeting them in their mountainous hideouts.

Blue Nile State: The war particularly in the Blue Nile region, has had a devastating impact on indigenous populations, leading to displacement, food insecurity, and a breakdown of essential services, with 40% of the state's population affected.

Sudanese women and their children are the most impacted by the violence and chaos.

Impact of war on women:

Sudanese women displaced by the conflict are at a higher risk of experiencing gender-based violence, including sexual violence, which negatively affects their reproductive health.
The conflict has resulted in a shortage of skilled healthcare providers, inadequate medical supplies, and limited access to emergency obstetric care, leading to an increased risk of maternal mortality and morbidity.
The conflict has negatively impacted pregnant women’s mental health, increasing stress, anxiety, and depression.

Impact of war on children:

Currently, 50 per cent of the total population - more than 24.8 million people, almost 14 million of whom are children, need humanitarian assistance.
Sudan has an estimated 5 million children who have fled their homes since April 2023, including nearly 1 million children across borders particularly to Chad, Egypt, and South Sudan.
Children have endured two years of uncertainty, trauma and violence. The situation is especially dire for children areas affected by direct conflict, insecurity, and lack of protection.
An estimated 3.2 million children in Sudan, under the age of five, are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in this year. An estimated 770,000 of these children will suffer from severe acute malnutrition; Recurrent disease outbreaks, including measles and malaria.