UN Refugee Agency or UNHCR on Tuesday launched nearly three billion Dollars’ appeal for South Sudanese refugees.
UNHCR spokesperson Charlie Yaxley in Geneva, Switzerland commended the generosity of host countries in keeping their borders open to South Sudanese nationals.
‘In Sudan, some refugees and their host communities have to survive on just five litres of water per person per day, inevitably leading to tensions’, he explained.
‘Schools are lacking teachers, classrooms, and educational materials leaving half of South Sudan’s refugee children out of school. Health clinics have insufficient doctors, nurses and medications’, Yaxley explained.
Priorities for UNHCR include the promotion of programmes for refugees and their hosts ‘to ensure the ongoing viability’ of both communities living together is vital that both communities are helped,’ he said.