Some extended families in Torit town say they are facing more difficulties to provide basic needs due to the current economic crisis.
The women say most families find it difficult to put food on the table, Radio Emmanuel reports.
Sofia Valentino is a teacher by profession with 4 children.
She complains that feeding the family has become very difficult as her husband is in prison since 2015.
Valentino says the current economic crisis is a lesson to many South Sudanese to stop the culture of dependency and learn to work hard.
She complains that things are very expensive, including exercise books.
Valentino adds that without supporting the children in school, they will not pass.
A widow of 50 years old mother, Jovina Idwa Luis, has 10 children.
She says she has to over work herself and feed the family because her husband is dead.
Luis says her older children help her in brewing alcohol to pay the school fees of her children.