Ethiopian refugees continue to cross into Sudan but at the border they get little support and humanitarian aid.
![Tsgay, a 35-year-old Ethiopian woman and her four-year-old daughter Dalina, who fled Ethiopia's Tigray region, sit in the Hamdayet Reception Area on the Sudanese side of the border on February 14, 2021 [Courtesy of MSF] She shared with MSF teams: “The food that we eat doesn’t contain any nutrients, but we have no option, we have to eat it in order to survive.” “When we fled from Tigray we had some money. We used to buy sorghum from the market. Now we spent [all our money]. Now we are forced to take the wet portage and mix it with the little amount of flour we have and use it to make injera.”](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/MSB53702High.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Jason Rizzo
Jason Rizzo is a project coordinator who has worked with MSF since 2017 in Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya and as part of MSF’... s search and rescue mission for refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Most recently, he spent five months in Sudan managing MSF’s emergency response for refugees arriving at Hamdayet border crossing from Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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