Juba, 17 September, 2021 / 12:41 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) in South Sudan have reached out to hundreds of women and children with “food assistance”
Realized through a partnership with the U.S.-based development arm of SDB, Salesian Missions, the nutritional initiative has benefitted some 230 people at the Don Bosco Gumbo camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) located in the country’s Archdiocese of Juba.
In a Wednesday, September 15 report shared with ACI Africa, SDB members involved in the distribution of the food say, “Those who received food assistance and other supplies were orphans, widows and widowers, households headed by children, the psychologically stressed and depressed, and other vulnerable groups.”
Each beneficiary, the Salesians report, “received 44 pounds (20kg) of ground flour, 2.2 pounds (1kg) of salt, 3.17 quarts (3 liters) of cooking oil and 11 pounds (5kgs) of beans per month. They also received soap and other hygiene supplies.”
“The food support is important because the prices of cereals and pulses are at record highs—up to 400 percent compared to the average cost,” Salesians say in their September 15 report, and further explain, “The decline in oil price has crippled the government’s social services sector and negatively affected the population.”
