“You can see the distress associated with a 12-hour journey by foot or a 24-hour bus ride. You can see the emotions of what it means to feel internally displaced in your own whenua – your land,” Bashir said.
“Within the first 72 hours, more than half of the hospitals in Sudan were non-functional and that only the first 3 days so you can imagine what 365 days plus has yielded.”
An in-depth timeline of the war takes up one wall of the exhibit.
The war has displaced more than 8.7 million people in Sudan, with 3.5 million children under the age of 5 experiencing acute malnutrition.
Save the Children has warned about 230,000 children, pregnant women and newborn mothers could die of malnutrition in the coming months.
Bashir doesn’t want the statistics to dilute the human aspect of this crisis.
“It was very emotional putting it all together because every statistic or data that you reference is impacting a certain group of people or country.”