Rescue Displaced Families in South Sudan

Your gift brought clean drinking water and latrines to South Sudan. Thank you!

Many women in South Sudan walk hours a day to fetch water for their families. Without wells, they are forced to get water from anyplace they can find it, whether it’s clean or not.

Elizabeth is one of those women. “Before World Concern came to repair the well, we would get water from ponds which were dirty. The animals would take water from the same place,” she says. “We would get sick all the time due to the dirty water. It’s all we had. But since World Concern improved our well, we don’t share the same water with the goats. They use the runoff water and that’s much better.”

Because of you, Elizabeth and her neighbors can fetch clean drinking water from their own village well. Now their families can drink clean water that is making them healthy and strong. 

But clean drinking water is only part of the equation. In one area, your gift also trained 123 people in proper hygiene and water protection. 

Angelo, a young man who participated in the training, explains, “When World Concern came for the hygiene training, they taught us the importance of building toilets on our homesteads. Before building the toilets, we would go in the bush.”

Using latrines stops human waste from getting into the water supply. This keeps the water clean so people don’t get sick from intestinal worms and other diseases.

Your gift is rebuilding lives! Thank you so much for giving!

Two, healthy twin boys giggle and play with each other next to their mother, Treza.

You wouldn’t know by watching them that only a few months ago, Treza’s twin boys were extremely malnourished.

It’s thanks to your gift of emergency supplies, including nutrition vouchers, that her twins and other children are now happy and healthy!

Where Treza lives in South Sudan, the ongoing violence and lack of water are contributing to a severe food shortage. And with five children at home, Treza did not have enough food for her little ones.

“When the children are hungry, they are unable to sleep at night . . . I kept wondering where to get food,” Treza worried.

But you stepped in at just the right time!

Your gift helped feed hungry families like Treza’s with nutrition vouchers so they could buy food to survive.

Nutrition vouchers are life-changing for a mom like Treza, who was without a way to feed her babies. Families are able to exchange these vouchers for nutritious food, helping to feed their children and maintain a sense of dignity and independence.   

Your gift is life-saving to moms like Treza who were in desperate need of food to help their children survive.

Today, Treza’s children, including her twins, are growing stronger and healthier every day. Their futures are changing because of you!

Your compassion and generosity are making a powerful difference in the lives of families in South Sudan. Thank you for bringing hope and health to Treza’s and other families in need!