| When Sister Emmanuelle arrived in Khartoum in 1986, following 15 years in the slums of Cairo, she was horror-struck. Many children from the South, especially boys, had fled from the war and famine ravaging that part of the country to seek refuge in the North where they hoped to rejoin an imaginary relative. But all they found was the same abject poverty.
To survive they organize themselves in street gangs, begging, stealing, prostituting themselves and dabbling in drugs to forget their loneliness, the pangs of hunger and ill-health.
Sister Emmanuelle told us: “The poverty of my slums in Cairo is nothing compared to that of these children. Our first priority must be to save these children without families!” Our activities in Sudan stem from Sister Emmanuelle’s first meeting with the street children of this country.
Since that time our activities in Sudan have continued to increase and develop.
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