United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or UNHCR provided 351 family non-food items, including blankets, plastic sheets, kitchen sets, Jerry cans, buckets, sleeping mats and mosquito nets.
In a statement CRN obtained on Friday, the agency also gave a generator for operation at Kangai Way Station, fire-wood for cooking, clean water, soaps, communal cooking utensils, cleaning materials for wash rooms, and torches to displaced people who fled from Moyo District and disputed border areas.
It added that UNHCR was facilitating with medical referral of sick individuals to Kajo-Keji Civil Hospital and identifying unaccompanied children to facilitate their reunification with family.
It reported that 11,903 South Sudanese fled the unrest from Uganda border area of Moyo District, villages of Limi, Litoba and Abaya in the disputed border areas to Kajo-Keji County of South Sudan.
UNHCR said majority returned home with little or no personal belonging and that about 60 percent or more proceeded on their own to stay with relatives while the rest mostly women and children are staying at the former UNHCR Kangai Way Station and local schools.
UNHCR’s intervention is done in partnership with local authorities, the South Sudan Commission for Refugee Affairs, the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission and NGOs.