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Since 2014, the ICRC has evacuated more than 5,000 patients from across South Sudan for life-saving surgery, often aided by South Sudan Red Cross volunteers drawn from the communities they serve. The system that supports them — the aircraft, the medics, the multiple wards — is stretched thin.
Casualties are increasing. Medical facilities are limited. Here is a crisis that draws little
South Sudan - Despite not having a university degree, John’s experience and potential were recognized and he was recruited as managing director of his current company, which provides agricultural and extension services. There, John manages an initiative to rent tractors to local farmers at a very low cost – “we are thinking like [this is] giving back to the community” – allowing the farmers to clear and cultivate land more efficiently and raise local agricultural production.
I plan to take action.” —John Ladu Simon Jacob, managing director of an
South Sudanese officials estimate that the number of refugees and returnees in the country has hit the devastating milestone of a million, most of them transiting through Renk, which has struggled to cope with the influx amid poor infrastructure and limited resources.
Since December, it is believed that 150,000
