Awadeya Mahmoud

"When I arrived on the first day of the sit-in, I didn’t find human beings, I found lions determined to fight for their rights."

"Do anything to help, even if it’s just chanting and clapping against the regime."

"None of the existing workers unions defended us because they cared more about working with the government than speaking for regular people."

"I am optimistic because, unlike in the 1985 revolution, all of Sudan is participating. The new president will have to be fair with men and women."

"The war displaced my whole family and my children never healed from the horror they felt."

"What WFP is doing is not easy. It's what we need the most in Sudan because you’re mobilizing food around the world for people."

"They confiscate our belongings and take them to the police station, they make us pay a fine and then a week later they do it again. It’s because we’re not socially acceptable. They don’t want to see us on the streets."

"The people at the sit-in were like our children. We had suffered severely under the last regime, and we had hopes for change."

"Their families are still hoping that they’re alive. They don’t want to believe they’re dead."