Every day, survivors in the Nuba Mountains, Darfur, and the Blue Nile face war, starvation, and displacement. Kara Universal is breaking the cycle — one community at a time.
From digging wells to building schools, our programs empower survivors of war and genocide to build healthier, self-sustaining communities.
90% of households without water rely on women and girls to collect it. We dig wells and use solar energy to cut child deaths by up to 50%.
Action-oriented pedagogy that hones critical thinking and equips children to identify challenges and design their own solutions.
New models of care designed for local villages. Immunizations, psychological support, maternal and neonatal care.
Thousands of casualties flee the Nuba Mountains, Darfur, and the Blue Nile daily — risking everything to escape political persecution and lack of food and water.
Systemic ethnic cleansing through denial of aid, killings, torture, and starvation used as weapons of war. Over 5 million remain in displacement camps.
Camps at double capacity. Pregnant women, children, and torture survivors are crammed into makeshift tents with no food, water, or sanitation.
90% of respondents had no access to food or water. 97% had households go weeks without a single meal in the prior month.
Satellite images confirmed destruction of civilian homes and mass graves. Aerial bombardment continues across South Kordofan villages.
Your support provides opportunities for vulnerable women and young people in war zones. Every gift goes directly to projects on the ground.
Every day, thousands of casualties risk their lives to escape political persecution, lack of food, and lack of water in the Nuba Mountains, Darfur, and the Blue Nile.
The victims of genocide not only live under constant aircraft bombing for years without international intervention, but also live under an earnest lack of food, water, and medical care for decades.
The genocidaire regime of Sudan has always followed a similar pattern: denial of access to humanitarian aid, ruthless killings, detentions and torture of civilians, looting, and the use of starvation and enslavement as weapons of war.
The very same leaders currently under investigation by the ICC for genocide maintain critical positions of power within Sudan, allowing them to continue perpetrating crimes against indigenous communities.
Thousands of survivors — mostly pregnant women, unaccompanied children, and survivors of torture — have been abandoned in refugee camps. Camps like Yida have been at more than double their capacity for years.
The famine these survivors experience is not purely natural — it is man-made. Climate change has altered weather patterns, destroying crops. Casualties are mostly women and children who die daily.
Chronic understaffing and flawed screening have failed survivors. Teenagers and torture survivors are detained after authorities fail to recognize them as vulnerable. Nuba communities have been isolated since 2011.
Satellite Sentinel Project images confirmed destruction of civilian homes, schools, and the presence of thousands of mass graves in Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan.
Your donation provides immediate relief — food, clean water, and medical care — to survivors trapped in the war zone.
We incubate survivors of war and violence as the best resource to rebuild broken communities. A hand up, not a handout.
Of the more than a billion people worldwide living in extreme poverty on less than $1.00 a day, millions of survivors exist on the margins of society — internally displaced, denied refugee status, shut out of the formal market sector, and left vulnerable to exploitation.
Kara Universal was created in direct response to the needs of the most vulnerable victims of war: mostly women, children, youth, and the maimed. We are breaking the cycle of extreme poverty through education and sustainable job creation.
We dig wells and use solar energy to provide safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services to arid communities. Women and girls are freed from hours of daily water collection.
We advocate for girls and former child soldiers' right to free, safe, quality education. Our model combines traditional content with psychological, financial, health, and administrative skills.
Our clinics provide immunizations and psychological support. We provide menstruation kits, reproductive health, maternal and neonatal care services to women with no access to hospitals.
"To direct resources towards empowering the most vulnerable members of our global society."
"To eradicate extreme poverty and violence by empowering victims of war and genocide."
From digging wells to building schools, defending human rights to funding small businesses, our programs empower survivors of war and genocide to build healthier, self-sustaining communities.
Due to the lack of drinking water, women and children are forced to travel great distances in search of it. Many still lack access to safe water and face obstacles like discrimination and long droughts.
We address hunger and malnutrition head-on by helping small farmers in the war-torn South Kordofan increase production and sell more crops — the best way to combat global hunger and poverty.
Poverty and health are strongly linked. Health problems can plunge people into poverty or keep them from escaping it, and those in poverty are more likely to suffer disease for lack of treatment.
Access to clean water is fundamental to life, but it goes beyond what we drink. For many women and adolescent girls, having your period means being excluded from many aspects of daily life.
We created innovative and effective pedagogical approaches alongside the community's own evaluation methods. This model combines traditional content with critically important real-world skills.
Our literacy strategies follow the approaches of fundamental education, selective-intensive functional literacy, conscientization, and mass campaigns to effect change in a non-violent way.
We provide books for our academic institutions and a safe, quiet space to study and do research. We also deliver computer literacy for access to scientific and technological information.
A holistic investment in education with critical-thinking exercises. Successful change-makers are connected to university scholarships to further their education and return to rebuild war-torn villages.
We give students from developed and developing nations a chance to interact through high school and university exchange, host families, internships, medical residencies, and volunteering opportunities.
We take an international approach to encourage women and young girls to pursue technical career paths, classes, or hobbies that address a social or environmental issue within their communities.
We promote respect for the rights and dignity of children, assisting them to alleviate the effects of armed conflict. We trace families across borders to reunite them with lost or captured children.
Beyond the conceptual notion of human rights, we raise voices in support of a dignified life for all. We address the indifference that causes much of the world's population to be forgotten.
Women and girls living in rebel-held areas of the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan, Sudan, have little or no access to medicine — exposing them to serious health complications and sometimes death.
We encourage conflict resolution and prevention with communities through conflict analysis and assessments, developing systems that monitor conflict triggers and trends to enable an early, appropriate response.
We offer support in slums, refugee camps, and villages to survivors of sexual violence — medical care, legal aid, psychosocial counseling, access to shelters, and vocational training skills.
Many survivors of war are disabled persons exposed to physical, cultural, and social barriers that handicap their lives without access to rehabilitation. We provide rehabilitation and integration services.
Among those living below the poverty line, women especially suffer from a lack of job and education opportunities because of traditional social values, with little access to public services.
We promote innovative policy solutions and reforms in villages by empowering women and youth with the skills to build businesses that have the potential to lift people out of poverty.
Our vocational schools are an effective device for training the youth of developing countries to enter the world of work. A flexible, trained workforce can greatly improve economic efficiency.
A microfinance program for high-impact small and medium-sized enterprises. The long-term goal is to promote self-sustenance opportunities rather than reliance on aid.
We seek ideas through education and benchmarking. We take pieces of practice or technology that we find and recombine them in novel ways to solve our community's problems.
Solar panels require almost no maintenance — a normal amount of wind and rain keeps them operating at near 100% of their rated efficiency. We harness solar energy to power villages.
We build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable development, and foster innovation. Infrastructure generates jobs, boosts economic growth, and improves quality of life for the poor.
Climate change has resulted in long droughts causing starvation. Green growth strategies can tackle these challenges without undermining growth potential, through reduced pollution and emissions.
Every contribution funds water, food, education, and protection for survivors of war and genocide.
Your gift helps us bring this work to the communities that need it most.
Innovating new models to empower victims of war and extreme poverty across the Nuba Mountains, Darfur, and the Blue Nile.
"Four years ago, after 14-year-old Hassina Soulyman, from Hadara village in Delami county, spent two days in labor at home, weak from loss of blood and falling in and out of consciousness — Kara Universal's clinic was the only hope she had."
War, long droughts, extreme poverty, and lack of health services contribute to severe malnutrition and death of over half of under-five children in South Kordofan. Many die of diarrhea, polio, and cholera due to lack of hospitals.
We empower women to participate in immunization campaigns, birth control, provision of sanitary towels, and prenatal and neonatal services — giving them control over their community's health.
We work directly with families and communities to build a comprehensive, sustainable, and dignified long-term strategy. By focusing on livelihoods, we directly impact resourceful mothers and youth.
Turning victims of war into breadwinners improves their status in the community, builds self-esteem, and enables them to pool resources to improve health, economy, and infrastructure.
Your support provides survivors of massacres a meaningful path out of the war zone, starvation, drought, and extreme poverty toward healing and empowerment.
Every dollar goes directly to projects. Your support provides opportunities for vulnerable women and young people in war zones.
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Kara Universal is a 501(c)(3) organization. All donations are tax-deductible.
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We partner with high schools to provide exchange programs where students from developed and developing nations interact to gain a wider view of our global community.
Connect with us →We work with universities to provide scholarships to students from extreme poverty and war-torn backgrounds to further their education and become changemakers.
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A humanitarian emergency in the Nuba Mountains has unfolded for decades, largely out of the world's view.
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