Telling the ECSA Story

Angelina Nyabany in her backyard garden in Mayom County, Unity State. CARE South Sudan/Kenyi Evans In Mayom County, South Sudan, conflict, flooding, and economic instability have pushed thousands into the grip of severe food insecurity and malnutrition. Families face a relentless struggle to survive. According to reports, South Sudan's Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) levels remain alarmingly high, with 46 out of 80 counties, including Mayom County, exceeding the WHO emergency threshold of 15%. Women and girls face heightened vulnerability across all aspects of food security, including availability, access, utilization, and stability. Women like 50-year-old Angelina Nyabany Wadar, a mother of three, faced impossible choices: skipping meals to feed her children, scavenging for wild foods, and watching helplessly as malnutrition threatened the lives of her little ones. Angelina was displaced by flooding that submerged her home and crops in Loath. Angelina's life took a dramatic tu...

Nyakoang Khan, 45 Nyakoang Khan, 45 –mother of five (3 boys and 2 girls) is a resident of Bhang, one of the villages in Koch –Unity State. Nyakoang lost her husband in Bentiu in 2013 during the South Sudan crisis between the government and opposition. As a widow and bread winner, Nyakoang used to walk miles in search of firewood to sell during the dry season and she would also cut grass to take to the market and buy food for her family. Out of her little earnings, she saved up to pay fees for her four children who are currently in school. “Life hasn’t been easy since my husband was killed in the Bentiu conflict in 2013. Everything was destroyed by the war. I used to walk to the bush to collect firewood and sell it so that I can be able to buy food for my children. I also cut grass for thatching huts to support my children.” Koch, where Nyakoang stays, has suffered the impact of the 2013 conflict, coupled with displacements and floods which has significantly affected livelihoods hen...