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Between August 2025 and January 2026, PAEMA supported 11 Sudanese youth in producing stories sharing their perspectives on the conflict in Sudan, the impact it has had on their families and communities, and their visions for Sudan’s future. Through eight different stories, told in a diversity of mediums, Youth Vision for Sudan’s storytellers convey what they and their communities have experienced. These stories are told against a backdrop of upheaval, displacement, and loss, but they emphasize the resilience, creativity, love, and hope that have sustained Sudanese families and communities throughout the conflict, and which continue to empower them today.

The storytellers of Youth Vision for Sudan are men and women between 18 and 30 years old from across Sudan, representing a diversity of ethnic backgrounds and levels of education. Some are still living in Sudan and some have been displaced to other countries in the region. Many of the storytellers are involved in community-organized responses to the conflict, including providing basic services and efforts to raise awareness about how the conflict is manifesting in different parts of Sudan.

As part of the program, they met regularly with each other, PAEMA’s support team, and expert storytellers. These included professional poets, photographers, documentary filmmakers, and journalists specializing in social media and online storytelling. The experts, most of whom are Sudanese, shared their experiences and knowledge and provided individualized professional advice and feedback to the cohort members.

The program emphasized the well-being of storytellers throughout their process. From beginning to end, storytellers retained ownership of what they shared and with whom. The program included sessions on managing stress and the psychosocial impacts of telling one’s own story, and every program session held space for processing emotions raised by the subject matter. Several cohort members shared at the end of the program that this continuous support, coupled with PAEMA’s emphasis that storytellers should guide and have ownership over their stories, was what made the program successful for them.

In keeping with that principle, the stories created by PAEMA’s Youth Vision for Sudan cohort are shared only with the consent of the storyteller(s). A summary of the stories, along with the medium in which each is told, is included below.