{"id":178903,"date":"2024-08-20T15:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-host-families-are-sheltering-millions-of-sudanese-but-we-need-more-support\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:33:53","slug":"sudan-host-families-are-sheltering-millions-of-sudanese-but-we-need-more-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-host-families-are-sheltering-millions-of-sudanese-but-we-need-more-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Host Families Are Sheltering Millions of Sudanese &#8211; but We Need More Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Kassala, Sudan \u2014 &#8216;I definitely cannot meet all of my guests&#8217; needs.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">When I was growing up, my father had a building in our house that was just for guests. It taught me something valuable: that it is very normal for Sudanese people to host, feed, and support others; that solidarity is a central part of our cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Many years later, my country is at war and I am now a host. From a humble house in the eastern town of Kassala, I am supporting 12 displaced people, all of them family&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408200004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kassala, Sudan \u2014 &#8216;I definitely cannot meet all of my guests&#8217; needs.&#8217; When I was growing up, my father had a building in our house that was just for guests. It taught me something valuable: that it is very normal for Sudanese people to host, feed, and support others; that solidarity is a central part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651159:356994f1fe51a399cbf6f3091cb2c240:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,9255,6937,7033,257,33636,254,4708,1613,7296,6096],"class_list":["post-178903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-families","tag-host","tag-millions","tag-news","tag-sheltering","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651159:356994f1fe51a399cbf6f3091cb2c240:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}