PORT SUDAN: In Sudan, volunteers risk death and arrest daily to serve a starving and uprooted population, vital work that made their network one of the top contenders for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Known as Emergency Response Rooms (ERR), the group tirelessly distributes food, rebuilds homes and organizes evacuations in the country ravaged by more than two years of war that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
“We are part of the population, we come from wherever we operate,” said Dia Al-Deen Al-Malek, a volunteer coordinator with the emergency response unit in the capital Khartoum.
“We are doctors, engineers, students, unemployed people, accountants.”
The network is located in all regions of the country and brings together thousands of volunteers, mostly young people.
