South Sudan

Number of people served in 2024: 75,281

More than two million displaced people live in South Sudan due to conflicts and violence within the country and its neighbour, Sudan. Of those affected, 2.3 million people are internally displaced, and 1.1 million are refugees from Sudan. As instability and violence continues, more are in need of protection and safety every day.

 

Our work in South Sudan

JRS provides various services in South Sudan. In Maban, JRS provides training for teachers; school materials; a daycare for disabled children; home visits; counselling; and emergency assistance. JRS Maban also coordinates social centres for refugee women, providing them with opportunities to learn tailoring and life skills and gain psychosocial support. JRS provides rehabilitation care through physiotherapy support to children and adults with disabilities, with those in need of assistive devices supported with various movement aid materials like wheelchairs and walking crutches. The project also provides pastoral care to the displaced population and runs the local parish. The project also organizes recreational activities for the youth that aid in positive coping mechanisms and appropriate behaviour development.

 

In Yambio, JRS provides education scholarships to vulnerable girls and boys attending secondary school; sanitary kits to adolescent girls attending school; essential teaching and learning supplies to schools; the construction of learning spaces; the training of school governing bodies; and certified teacher training in the Certificate and Diploma program. In Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, JRS provides counselling, distribution of dignity kits to marginalized adolescents and women, cash assistance to Persons with special needs, capacity building training to local protection structures (home visitors, care givers, protection groups, etc.) establishment and operation of Women and Girls Friendly Spaces, provision of core relief items and do referrals to other agencies for specialized services.  JRS also provides a community- and school-based peacebuilding initiative that uses mediation and workshops as well as involvement of Community Peace Ambassadors and Interfaith structures for encouraging reconciliation rather than violence. Overall, JRS Yambio supports refugees, IDPs, refugee returnees and vulnerable host community in Western Equatoria State.

See our work

Visit of Monsignor Ionut Paul Visit to Maban in 2022.
Child with special needs receiving equipment and support form JRS in Maban
Home visit of JRS team to beneficiary of a walking device in Maban.
Views of Maban
JRS therapists team visiting a hospital in Maban to other physiotherapy services to people in need.
Children attending our Day Care services in Maban for children with special needs.
Community Center for girls and women in Yambio offering games, leisure and vocational training.
the effects of the floods in Maban, 2022
Schools supported by JRS in Yambioa
Family led by a mother with mobility impairment posing in front of the house built by JRS in Yambio

Contact

JRS South Sudan Country Director

George Wesonga

southsudan.director@ear.jrs.net

Project locations:

Maban, Yambio, Renk

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