Friday, November 28, 2025

A South Sudanese woman rising above adversity through strength and learning

Meet Alic, a strong South Sudanese woman who overcame adversity, from childhood illness and domestic violence to devastating floods. Through participation in the 2025 Disaster Risk and Preparedness Training, she gained vital skills to protect her family and community. Her inspiring journey highlights the power of empowerment, knowledge, and hope in transforming lives.

World Vision’s mobile clinic targets 50,000 people in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State

The communities in Upper Nile State’s Fashoda and Manyo Counties have been classified as in a state of emergency with 16% of the population facing food...

New UNICEF Representative Hamida Lasseko urges more forces to join fight against malnutrition

The new UNICEF South Sudan Representative Hamida Lasseko recently visited World Vision’s nutrition site in Munuki Primary Health Care Center in Juba, met...

Mothers despair as hunger and malnutrition rise among South Sudan’s children

“I cannot afford to feed the children anymore”, says Viola Woro, a 37-year-old mother of six and a guardian to two children. When her younger sister...

A South Sudanese mother's anguish: "My children's hunger breaks my heart"

The UN recently raised the worsening hunger crisis warning in South Sudan as it launched the 2021 South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan. “South Sudan is...

SSHF, World Vision and CCM launch emergency response in Greater Tonj counties

The recent South Sudan Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) on Food Security Report has projected that starting April 2021, an estimated 7.4 million...

South Sudan: 5.9 million without access to clean water

The weather was scorching hot in Juba. One can only wonder how people can endure the heat. People would pitch beds fitted with mosquito nets outside due to...

Reviving children's hopes: Home-based distance-learning program amid COVID-19 in South Sudan

An estimated 3.4 million South Sudanese children, 51 percent of whom are girls, lack or have inadequate access to education services this 2021, according...

Over 32,000 IDPs depend on WFP and World Vision’s food assistance in the Juba PoC

The World Food Programme (WFP) supports World Vision’s implementation of the Food Assistance Project supporting 32,117 people in the PoC.

As classes reopen, three schools and one orphanage in Juba receive learning and sports materials

Thousands of children in South Sudan are excited as schools reopen in April 2021. When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the schools were closed as part...

Facing the odds as a woman leader in South Sudan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Being a woman humanitarian leader in a male-dominated environment is challenging enough. If you add this along with the Covid-19 global pandemic, it adds...

Joyce inspires fellow South Sudanese mothers to join nutrition campaign to protect children

“It was a tough decision to serve my people during this difficult time of COVID-19 to help South Sudan. I will continue to work for my community, reach out...

Safe grazing environment frees South Sudan’s young pastoralists from danger

“As a pastoralist for many years, I was fearful when the dry season comes. We take the cattle to other villages in search of greener pastures and water and...

Giving South Sudan’s children the best start in life through early childcare development

“The early child care activity has contributed to my brother’s recovery from malnutrition and his general wellbeing”, 15-year-old Mayen Ngor Kuol shares...

South Sudanese mother of 12 advocates for maternal health and safety in childbirth

“Giving birth comes with a lot of complications and responsibility, especially for mothers who deliver from home”, shares 38-year-old mother of 12, Gracia...

Keeping babies safe as mothers in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State leave traditional birthing behind

"Delivering a baby at home can be a life-threatening experience for many women in South Sudan,” shares Nama Samuel, 33. The mother of nine had no idea of...

Savings groups in South Sudan encourage rise of women entrepreneurs even amid COVID-19

“My life was so difficult before the project came. I thought my family will not survive from hunger,” shares 35-year-old Yar Laat Goljok. Yar was then...

A South Sudanese’s father's joy: "No child will die of measles and other common diseases in my village"

“I vow not to lose another child to measles again”, says Joseph Anthony, 35-year old father of 12 from Western Equatoria State’s Nzara County. He has also...

Vegetable gardening improves lives of 780 women-farmers in South Sudan’s Twic County

“In the past, I had to beg for assistance, but today I can get what I need from my garden”, says Akuac Aguer, a 34-year old widow and mother of six living...

Refugee children in South Sudan campaign for awareness to protect fellow children from COVID-19

"We could not stop the conflict, that’s why we are here as refugees. But we can help stop the spread of COVID-19 in the camp,” shares Esther, 9. Esther was...

Boma health workers in South Sudan’s Ezo County help save lives of over 18,000 children

Every morning in Banduguyo Boma in Ezo County, a part of Western Equatoria State, mothers wake up, go to the farm, some to the market, and others take...

Focus in building a bright future through education, Joseph urges former child soldiers

In 2016, an armed group abducted 11-year-old Joseph* while on his way to his auntie’s place in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State. “We were walking in...

One man’s passion shines saving children from polio in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State

“I will continue to use my skills to help the community in the fight against polio and see to it that the virus is driven out of South Sudan”, says Anthony...

Over 49,000 farmers in South Sudan’s Warrap State stop hunger through improved farming skills

“We were subsistence farmers before World Vision introduced us to large scale agriculture that helped improve our skills,” says Atong Reec Athian, 34. The...

Charity urges fellow South Sudanese: “No woman should endure and die from abuse in silence”

“In the early years of our marriage, everything was sweet. After a few years, it was filled with sorrow”, Charity, 38-years old says. The mother of seven...