Impacts Of The Economic Hardship On S.Sudanese Community Empowerment for Rehabilitation and Development-CEFoRD, has released a report on the effects of the current economic crisis on the people of South Sudan. 13 February 2016
By Modi Gilbert YEI, 13 February [Gurtong]- CEFoRD carried out civic engagement through interviews since last month to respondents from Yei, Lainya and Morobo Counties. Declaring the findings, Mawa George Lazarus, the Executive Director for CEFoRD noted that 80% of the citizens are undergoing harsh situations. “From our findings we got that 80% of the population living around these areas live far below poverty line” he said “most respondents told us that they actually spend 10 pounds per day to earn a living and this is too far below, when you look into the rate of devaluation-a dollar is about SSP. 18 or more or even going to SSP.30” “About 70% of the respondents also told us that their income level is between 250 and 500 SSP; so when you take 250 and 500 this is very terrible, looking at how prices are going especially when you compare into buying food stuff. Now a bag of flour is more than five hundred pounds” said Mawa. The report also indicates closure of business entities in these three Counties. Most families, according to the report read by Mawa, are likely to not send their children to schools as they now prefer spending the little they have on food items. “The report also shows that most families are likely not to send their children to school. Most are saying that they are redirecting their expenses to food items; no body now thinks of buying scholarship materials, paying school fees because you can’t send a hungry child to school you need to feed the child instead of going, so I think this is so serious. Some thing is needed to be done about it.” The executive director adds that the finding also signifies a great number of the population living in extended families facing high consequences of the crises. “One person had to tell us that instead of providing the usual meal, these days, they even live on sweet potatoes for some of the meals” said the executive director. He there is fear of acute malnutrition if the economic hardship persists. “The adverse effect of these this change in terms of feeding habit is that most people are going to experience malnutrition because now the body doesn’t get food nutrients that it used to get. And we are going to see many people going sick and even we shall lose people to simple effects.” According to Mawa, citizens believe that the full and quick implementation of the August signed peace agreement is the only utmost solution to stop the suffering the people of South Sudan are enduring. He adds that the citizens also recommend reduction of taxes imposed on business people and subsidization of essential goods as one way to control the hiking prices of commodities in the markets. The director said that they are going to share the findings in the report with the policy makers as well as the international agents to come out with what to do The report is titled “I will never survive till next month.” -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oqzW%3D4gXnhDVMd179rwJBVd_%3DJkjowXQr8RQn3Z60HO7w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
