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South Sudan (Jonglei)

What LWF South Sudan Program

Local Partner LWF World Service -South Sudan

Where Twic East, Duk and Bor South county of Jonglei State

Who 23,681 people (16,577 Host community/local community Including returnees and 7,104 IDPs)

ALWS Action $600,000

Why our help is needed

Jonglei State is the least-developed region of Africa. Civil war, and prolonged floods and drought, threaten the fragile social system.

Our action together in 2022

• 2,000 children aged 3 - 6 now attend pre-school

• 22,000 children - 50% girls! - now attend primary and secondary level schools

• Provide assistive devices and accessible learning materials for children with disabilities

• Provide professional training for 180 teachers

• Train 450 farmers in climate-smart agriculture via 30 Field Schools

• Support Poultry production and market access for 200 women

• 740 youth engaged in income generating activities – training and support to establish solar energy business, training and support for ground nuts production and local processing/packing, fish production (Digging of pond, training and provision of fishing kits), and bee keeping (including training and provision of modern bee hives).

What we’re learning

In the current unpredictable weather patterns, there is need for increased adoption of climate-smart agriculture, adaptive livelihoods options, and enhanced community based psychosocial support systems.

Our impact

Due to agriculture skill developed, 90% (135 out of 150) of farming households reached by the project through skill training and inputs, produced more food that can help them to at least feed their households for 5-6 months within a year. The best farmers produced 400-500kg per hectare. School enrollment and transition rates were also up with an average of 96% transition across the three levels of education –early childhood education, primary and secondary.

Home and happy

Despite a peace agreement being signed in 2018, the situation in South Sudan remains challenging. Alongside outbreaks of conflict is the damage caused by major flooding. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has increased the already high prices for fuel.

Two thirds of people in South Sudan do not know where their next meal will come from.

At the same time, people still long to return to South Sudan to places where there are pockets of peace and stability. ALWS partner, LWF, is working to support refugees to return home, and equipping them to be self-supporting.

People learn sustainable farming methods like sack-farming and simple irrigation. They are shown how to start up Village Savings and Loans Groups, and equipped with vegetable and fruit seedlings like cow-peas, pigeon-peas, onions, tomatoes and watermelon.