Adam Youssef fled his Darfur home after an attack by Arab militia, but aid agencies fear they won't have the cash to feed and shelter him as donors tire of funding a crisis entering its third year.
More than two million Darfuris have been driven from their homes into camps since fighting erupted in Sudan's remote western region in early 2003, sparking a humanitarian crisis which at its peak claimed 10,000 lives every month.
One of the world's largest aid efforts last year, coordinated by the United Nations and carried out by humanitarian groups, helped bring the crisis under control.
But as the fighting continues and peace talks falter, humanitarian workers say donors are becoming more reluctant to pay for a never-ending emergency and are starting to reduce aid, a development some fear could further destabilise the region.
"I'm very worried this will cause a lot more instability," said Canada's special Sudan envoy Mobina Jaffer.
"People go hungry so there's more fighting over less resources." Narinder Sharma, a UN official in Darfur, said aid agencies were already phasing out their activites and any decrease in funding would spell disaster for millions of people. "All our work would be undone," he said.
"I just could not bear to see the children go back to that state." The United States, which pays for more than half the Darfur aid effort, plans to cut its contribution next year, he added.