Khartoum’s daily fighting between the military and Rapid Support Forces started in April. The Mygoma orphanage is in the heart of the fighting, making it too dangerous for doctors to visit any sick children. Power and water cuts, and 43C temperatures, have caused 67 children to die of starvation, dehydration, and infections. Transporting 400 children and babies was a huge logistical challenge, but there was no alternative. A handful of locals organised an evacuation in minibuses. On the front of the first minibus was a bedsheet with a message to the militias - ‘There are children on board’.