Emergency Shelters Issued To Bor Families
The most vulnerable communities especially the returnees from Sudan have received humanitarian assistance including temporary shelters from the South Sudan Red Cross Society in Bor. 29 April 2013 The Red Cross society gave assistance to vulnerable families in Bor town after their assessment targeted seven areas in the town.[ Jacob Achiek Jok] By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 29 April 2013 [Gurtong] – The Jonglei Red Cross Director, David Gai Deer has said that they give assistance to vulnerable families in Bor town after their assessment targeted seven areas of Bor town. Gai said that distribution started on Saturday and was targeting 1,000 households but the assessments in seven areas identified 900 households which they have given assistance. He said that they are giving emergency shelter, including kitchen set, plastic sheet, a jerry can, washing soap, blanket and mosquito nets. He said that they mapped the community and they know exactly what the returnees from Sudan want as they are always registered by Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) and they always take part of the registration. He said that theirs is a continuation process to help vulnerable people as borders have now been opened and they expect more returnees to come from Sudan. A 48 year- old woman who identified herself as Yom Malual Kuot has said that the registration team came to her house and told her that they had a shortage of registration papers. “The registers came to me and told me that they will come back at evening hours because of having no registration papers but they didn’t come back again,” Kuot said. Another woman identified as, Kuer Kuot Guet told Gurtong that it was the first time she received the Red Cross assets since the time she ran from her payam due to insecurity three years ago. Kuer has a disability and stays with five children at Paliet of Bor town. She urges the Red Cross society to continue helping vulnerable people. However, Gai said that they work within their policy and mandate as they carry out assessments of those in need. Posted in: Home, Health, Humanitarian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
