Sixteen volunteers have been working for the last week under Caritas Juba preparing shelters in Kapuri area, near the Teachers’ Training Centre, for the returnees coming from Kosti.
Today, 700 returnees have arrived at the site.Caritas Juba Emergency Coordinator Agnes Serafino told CRN that the 16 volunteers were offloading building equipments provided by IOM, the International Migration Organization, and putting up shelters for 1,000 returnees.
She said the volunteers were happy because they were standing in solidarity with their people returning to the motherland.
Volunteer Gismallah Gift said he was working hard to make sure when the returnees arrive they will find a place to stay.
He said the volunteers were glad and singing while working because they were proud to welcome their fellow citizens back home.
The work to build shelters for returnees will last some more days.