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Sudan Relief and Development Supplies Cost List
Posted: June , 2004 
The Darfur region of western Sudan has suffered sixteen months of armed conflict. About thirty thousand residents have been killed, over a million people displaced. The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) supports relief and development work in Sudan that meets immediate emergency needs and longterm recovery solutions. The United Methodist humanitarian agency is working through its ecumenical partner, Action by Churches Together (ACT).
ACT released an illustrative relief supplies cost list in June 2004. UMCOR invites church to use this list to encourage donations to UMCOR's Sudan Emergency, Advance #184385. The range of cost enables larger or smaller United Methodist congregations, groups, and individuals to choose the amount of their contribution. Combine education about this crisis and the church's response and an invitation to give in presentations in contexts such as youth groups, church school classes, and Vacation Bible School. As part of this appeal, you can distribute UMCOR's insert/flyer on the crisis in Sudan.
Sudan Relief and Development Supplies Cost List
| 1 drilled bore hole well | $7000.00 |
| 1 hand dug well | $1000.00 |
| 1 medical doctor for 1 month | $800.00 |
| 1 midwife for 1 month | $230.00 |
| 1 nurse for 1 month | $600.00 |
| 1 refrigerator (for medicines in clinic) | $200.00 |
| 1 child fortified for 18 months (supplemental nutrition*) | $108.68 |
| 1 pit latrine constructed | $30.00 |
| Seeds for 1 family | $20.00 |
| 1 plough | $6.00 |
| 1 pick | $3.00 |
| trowels (important for sanitation) | $2.50 |
Source: Action by Churches Together, June 2004
How to Participate in This Program
Your gifts to UMCOR's Sudan Emergency, Advance #184385 will support relief efforts. One hundred percent of your gift goes to humanitarian work in Sudan. United Methodists' generous giving to the One Great Hour of Sharing, part of their ongoing contribution to mission around the world, supplements the cost of Advance gifts. Give through your local United Methodist church or send financial contributions to: UMCOR, 475 Riverside Dr., Room 330, New York, NY 10115. Call 1-800-554-8583 to make a credit card donation.
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*Supplemental nutrition is food given to severely malnourished individuals. The food is above and beyond the daily ration alloted to displaced people in the camps. In the Darfur region of Sudan, ACT partners are giving biscuits fortified with vitamins, protein, oil, and sugar to malnourished children. The extra nourishment and calories helps children regain weight and health. In this cooperative humanitarian approach to the crisis in Sudan, the World Food Programme provides the basic food ration to camp inhabitants.