Health & Nutrition

Tuesday 19 June 2018

Not Educated, but Can Treat Childhood Illnesses

Save the Children trains hundreds of women who cannot read and write to treat childhood illnesses and malnutrition

Mother Lochin took her 2-year-old son Lokale* to a Save the Children-trained community health worker and has made a full recovery. Martin Kharumwa / Save the Children

Friday 26 January 2018

South Sudan’s Starving Children Turn to Beggars

Blog by | Tito Justin | January, 2018

"The only item that is in abundance is Ekamongo, small, bitter, wild green that are boiled, mashed and have to be mixed with oil and salt, it's - the only option for starving children in greater Kapoeta, South Sudan.

 Louis Leeson/Save the Children

Thursday 28 December 2017

Treating Our People is Our Pride

Save the Children South Sudan in Partnership with UNFPA and the Health Cluster ensuring survivors of sexual violence receive better treatment.

Thursday 30 January 2014

'I am here because of hunger'

Namana, 8, and her family have been struggling to get enough food for the last few months. The families crops were destroyed by floods last year and right now all that her mother is able to feed Namana and her three sisters are the wild fruits and leaves she collects from the bush.

Thursday 30 January 2014

‘All of my children have now been vaccinated’

Nyayalny, 36, lives with her husband and three children in Maiwut, Upper Nile state. She walked for two hours to bring her children Pagak, 3, and Duolduet, 6 months, to the health centre supported by Save the Children in Paga

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