Impact stories

Nyanyin Jek is tired and exhausted. She just walked for two days through the swamp of Uror county in South Sudan. She is seven months pregnant and hopes to receive medical support at CARE’s

Nicholas Kweri folds the large banner together, grabs an empty bucket and his gumboots. A quick discussion with his team, and then he leaves the CARE compound in Yuai,

“I have just come back after a long day outside the UN Protection of Civilian Area (PoC) in Bentiu. In the past months, we as CARE and other organizations were limited to work inside the PoC

Peter Bothi is a storekeeper with the CARE South Sudan team in Bentiu. He is in charge of maintaining the inventory records of the stocks from the clinic and office that were once in Bentiu town but which are now currently being occupied by soldiers and…

Simon Chol is a peace-building advisor for CARE South Sudan and former combatant in the fight for independence. Three years after independence for South Sudan, Simon asks what went wrong, and how the same mistakes can be avoided again.

Our “office” in Bentiu consists of nothing more than five desks. CARE occupies half a trailer and shares the tiny space with two other organizations, but others “camp”

“Sometimes when I give an interview, I have to turn off the part of my brain that analyzes what I’m saying. The implications of what I’m telling are too devastating: 64 reported cases of gender based violence in a protection area just within a week. I…

Nyakuic Tap brought her baby to CARE’s mobile clinic set up under a shade tree in the dirt yard of Bentiu’s Catholic church. Twelve-month old Giunb Tap alternately tried

PAGAK, South Sudan – Nyakoang Rieka set out from her village in the afternoon. Pregnant and with her elderly mother and three small children in tow, she walked several miles through the hot, dry South Sudanese countryside to get to the food…