TO SAVE AND BUILD LIVES IN WAR-TORN SOUTH SUDAN
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job that would interest me enough.enough. Here in South Sudan, some weekendsends suck but I’m spending most off my waking hours working and lovingving my job.”
South Sudan is suffering a man-manmade humanitarian crisis, withwith nearly four million people displacedced and more than six million facinging acute food insecurity.
Devastating f loods at the endnd of last year affected an alreadydy vulnerable population and,d, combined with f ighting andd humanitarian access issues, theree is a risk of famine in some areas.
In 2018, UK aid supportt prov ided l i fesav ing food assistance to more than 221,000 people, over 100,000 children withwwi nutrition support and moremmo than 142,000 people with ememergencym water, hygiene and sanitationsasan help.
AnnaA has been living in Bentiu – oneon of the worst-hit areas of the civil war.
HerHe role sees her travelling the countrycount to access need and offer assistanceassist to displaced people mainly living outside of the camps. As wellw as being constantly vigivigilanlant against the threat of violence,violenc Anna was transported to a hospithospital in the country’s capital, Juba, lastlas year after falling ill with suspectedsuspecte malaria.
She said:sa “I looked grey for about a week andan but it turned out it was just flu.
“South Sudan is a funny place for someone like me to live because I am a bit of a hhypochondriac. I was always
“I always say to my friends in Scotland I wish I could wear a GoPro on my head for a day, just so people could see what I see every day.
“The levels of poverty are staggering. You see people walk for two days just to get food – and that’s part of what they do every month.
“Most of the remote locations we go to, a school is a teacher who is a volunteer, teaching under a tree, with children sitting around on the ground.
Sunday Mail