CAFOD’s Press Secretary, Nana Antto, told Radio Easter that CAFOD has been working in South Sudan for nearly thirty years through Catholic Church partners.
She said the organisation was coming back after independence and hopes to support the communities returning home from the north.
Ms. Nana said CAFOD is working with Catholic Church supporting access to water projects like repairing and building boreholes, helping people start livelihood in the new nation by giving them tools and seeds.
She added CAFOD will also intervene in peace and reconciliation programs in the country, and appealed to the people of South Sudan to live in peace in order to realize sustainable development.
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Yei alerted that many South Sudanese face many challenges, with the poor going hungry every day. He expressed this concern while meeting a delegation of Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) in Yei.
Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe added that many South Sudanese still lack clean water, and do not enjoy basic infrastructure, such as roads. He encouraged people to be generous to one another and share the little they have with destitute families, especially in this Lenten season.
He appealed to International NGO’S and the Church to help in reaching out the suffering people of South Sudan with food.