Isoke Central Boma Women groups, in Lomohidang north Payam at Ikotos County, Eastern Equatoria State, have rescued the residents from depending on row mangoes and papaws to survive hunger.
Kasimiro Lukas, the Boma chief, told Radio Emmanuel that the women groups started investing the little money from their membership fees to buy grain at the peak of food scarcity in the area to save the lives of the people.Mr. Lukas said that it was a blessing to the people when the women started selling 50-kilogram bags of maize at 50 Sudanese pounds to hunger stricken residents who survived on mangoes, papaws and at the mercy of God.
The Boma chief added that the people in the area had resorted to eating row mangoes and papaws due to food crisis following a three-month draught in the last crop season.
Mr. Lukas said a 15-year-old boy died in the area after falling from a mango tree early this month, in an attempt to search for fruits to beat hunger.