23 April 2023
Our hearts are with Sudan. This blog is a little different to what you have read on our site before…
Belle and Co. has built a strong bond with Sudan and its peoples through its work over the years. In fact, if our Alumni WhatsApp groups are anything to go by, we have trained over 150 creative and social enterprise leaders since 2019.
Creative Campus Sudan #1 (2019)
UpScale Social Enterprise Sudan (2020)
Creative Campus Sudan #2 (2020)
Creative Campus Sudan #3 (2020)
Creators Hubs Sudan #2 (2022)
Next Level Fariq Project (2023)
Through these rich and engaging interactions over the years, I have been privileged to meet some of the most creative and visionary leaders in all my experience to date. Despite years of oppression, loss of loved ones, a broken system of governance and being cut off from the outside world, here you have young people in their hundreds, with hope for a better future … that resulted in a revolution and the fall of a dictator. Powerful. And a small crack of hope was opening up. We were slowly building a better and brighter future – together.
It feels like all the work of the last few years since the revolution has come tumbling down. And it is heartbreaking. How much can the human spirit endure after years of torment?
Our thoughts and prayers are with Sudan. And to all the community builders, creative visionaries, passionate people that I have met, I love you and I hope that you and your family are safe and that better days will be here soon. You all have come too far to give up now, and we hope to be reunited soon.
Inshallah, Belisa
