S. Sudan’s Red Cross pledges to support returnees in Bor
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June 22, 2015 (BOR)- South Sudan’s Red Cross (SSRC) has pledged to
support many South Sudanese families from Jonglei state who are now
returning homes from the internally displaced and refugee camps to
enable them get resettled in their homes.
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A South Sudanese boy has a MUAC test, designed to detect malnutrition
(Photo: ACF-South Sudan/T. Frank)
SSRC distributed non-food items to families who returned mostly from
the neighbouring Lakes state’s Mingkaman displaced camp after one and
half years.
The director for SSRC in David Gai said distribution targeted the most
vulnerable 750 families in Bor town, and would soon be scaled up to
cover 650 more families.
Each family, he said, receives emergency shelter, including kitchen
set, plastic sheet, jerry cans, washing soap, blanket and mosquito
nets to foster their resilience.
“We will also continue to assist the most vulnerable people who are
returning. With this situation of the rain, many families are
returning with their children and they don’t have shelters, their
shelters were destroyed”, Gai told reporters in the state capital,
Bor.
He further said SSRC and its partners would still require continued
support enable it meet the rising needs of families arriving and
assist them with the much-needed items.
The state relief and rehabilitation commission coordinator in Bor
county, Jok Alier, had called upon the humanitarian agencies,
including World Food Program(WFP) in May, to increase emergency ratio
in the state.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) had halved the food ration
given to returnees in Jonglei. There was general public outcry
regarding the reduction of unconditional food ration from 100 per cent
to 50 per cent, which gave each person 250 grams of cereals a day
totalling to 15kg of cereal a month per person, a half of the WFP
ration.
Aluel Ajak, one of the returnees from Uganda, stressed how urgent they
needed food.
"We come from Uganda without ratio cards. We are hungry now, no food”, she said.
The situation, most returnees told Sudan Tribune, would only improve,
if WFP continues providing them with unconditional food support up to
next year.
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