The Lasting Effect of Conflict on South Sudan’s Education System

JUBA, South Sudan/GENEVA, 8 February 2012 (LWI) – There is a hunger for education in South Sudan that is obvious wherever you go.

Young people will travel hundreds of kilometers to attend school or university. Old people in the most impoverished areas will ask a visitor for food, but young people will ask for scholarships.

Mental Healthcare in the Wake of Conflict in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan/GENEVA, 7 February 2012 (LWI) – January the 16^th was like most other days in the town of Duk Padiet in Jonglei State, South Sudan. Achol Agol had walked through the heat and dust to the borehole to collect water for her three children, her brother and her father. The family lived together in a small compound close to the center of the town.

LWF Meets Immediate Needs while Addressing Causes of Poverty in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan/GENEVA, 3 February 2012 (LWI) – There is a general rule that a person can live for three minutes without air, three days without water and three weeks without food. In disasters where people have lost everything, this rule of “three” governs emergency relief priorities.

The Story of Manyok and His Family in South Sudan

BOR, South Sudan/GENEVA, 30 January 2012 (LWI) – Manyok is the father of a Dinka family living in Jonglei State, South Sudan.

He married his wife Rebecca two years ago and they have a one-year-old child. Rebecca’s father died many years ago, so when Manyok married her, he took responsibility for her, her sister, two brothers and mother.

Influx Increases Diakonia Work for Lutheran-led Ecumenical Program

JÄRVENPÄÄ, Finland/GENEVA, 22 December 2011 (LWI) – People seeking a better life flock to the autonomous province of Vojvodina in the Republic of Serbia.

It is the most prosperous region of the country, but it has experienced economic woes since the end of the Yugoslav federation.

More Help Needed to Prevent Humanitarian Disaster

JUBA, South Sudan/GENEVA, 25 January 2012 (LWI) – Humanitarian organizations, including The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), have added emergency aid programs to their ongoing work in South Sudan in response to inter-ethnic fighting there.

Twenty Years on: Insecurity, Violence and Poverty Persist

GENEVA, 24 January 2012 (LWI) – The Salvadoran Lutheran Church has welcomed government celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the peace agreement that ended the country’s civil war but called for a new agreement that will return the country to peace and justice.

LWF Supporting Peace Process Launched by Sudan Council of Churches

JUBA, South Sudan/GENEVA, 23 January 2012 (LWI) – Ask almost anyone in South Sudan today what the key to peace is and most will have the same answer–youth.