Juba, 18 March, 2021 / 5:55 pm (ACI Africa).
In an effort to provide Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) with opportunities and skills that are efficient, adequate and acceptable for socioeconomic environment, Catholic Nuns in South Sudan are providing rehabilitation and community reintegration programs for those living in camps in the country.
Speaking to ACI Africa on Wednesday, March 17, the Country Director for Society of Daughters of Mary Immaculate and collaborators (SDMIC), Sr. Jeny Maila, said that members of her Religious Congregation are focusing more on a recovery approach than the food security program that was the previous focus.
Beneficiaries are people who have been driven out of their ancestral homes and are now living at the United Nations’ (UN) Protection of Civilian (PoC) camp in Juba.
“Over the years, the SDMIC have been supporting the people with relief materials but now we want to see that they get back to their places and start doing everything on their own, becoming self-sustainable and expect nothing from others,” Sr. Maila told ACI Africa.