On Saturday, July 9, the Republic of South Sudan officially became the world's 193rd country. Even as people celebrate their independence, a massive humanitarian crisis continues. An estimated 170,000 people fled the north prior to the split and have arrived in the south.
A sharp increase in the number of people arriving in already strained host communities has resulted in severe food and water shortages. Refugee families are facing an immediate, critical need.
We’re working in areas that are scrambling to register people and provide them with emergency food, water and cooking supplies. We’ve already been able to feed about 6,000 people, but we need your help to do more.
You can provide a month’s worth of sorghum, beans, oil and vitamin-packed peanut butter for young children for $50. These rations will help a family survive until they’re stabilized in this new area.
The situation in South Sudan is chaotic and confusing – especially for those who fled their homes, leaving everything behind.
Read the story of one family we're helping.
We’ll be in South Sudan long-term, helping the people of this new nation rebuild their lives and develop sustainable communities. Your help will begin the process of healing.
Please help us reach those who are suffering with life-saving food and supplies. Donate now.
When violence broke out in May of 2011 in the disputed border region of Abyei, thousands of displaced people began arriving in the areas of South Sudan where we work. We've been able to provide emergency rations of food, including:
World Concern has been working in South Sudan since 2005. In addition to food security, we're helping establish local economies through vocational training, education, small savings groups, business development and child development.
We plan to walk alongside the people of South Sudan as they resettle in new communities and rebuild their lives. Our programs will help create economic opportunities and teach people to support themselves in this new country.
In 2011, the people of South Sudan voted to secede from the north and form their own country. Since the referendum, hundreds of thousands of people have returned to their native land in the south, but are finding little or no infrastructure and few employment opportunities.
In May, more violence broke out in the disputed border region of Abyei, causing nearly 100,000 more people to flee. They are arriving in already strained host communities that have no means to support them.
Sudan has been recovering from a 20-year civil war, which destroyed the country’s social, political, educational, medical and economic infrastructure.
World Concern is a Christian global relief and development agency whose supporters’ faith compels them to extend opportunity and hope to people facing the most profound human challenges of extreme poverty serving in Africa, Asia, and Haiti.
Learn more about us at www.worldconcern.org.
