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Unity State: Leer county women raise funds from small businesses

By Bonifacio Taban Kuich

December 21, 2010 (BENTIU) – More than thirty of women line up most days in Leer county market competing to sell fresh milk to people to earn money to support their families.

Ms. Nyariak Chuol pours a mug of fresh milk, which she sells for 1 SDG (<doc8084|right>.4) to customers in Leer Market. Dec. 20, 2010 (ST)” title=”Ms. Nyariak Chuol pours a mug of fresh milk, which she sells for 1 SDG (<doc8084|right>.4) to customers in Leer Market. Dec. 20, 2010 (ST)” class=”caption” align=”right” />Local woman, Nyariak Kuol, Chuol told <em>Sudan Tribune</em> on Monday that she uses the milk she sells to buy sorghum so she can feed her family.</p>
<p>Sometimes she has to wait for hours for customers in the market but she earns around 17 Sudanese Pounds (SDG), around $7 a day. However, Chuol said her business of selling milk is better than being idle. </p>
<p>She said that she is not the only milk seller in Leer, with many other women starting up businesses with her over the last year and a half. She said they supply the entire whole town with milk.</p>
<p>Chuol came to Leer town from Bathjoop cattle camp located 30 kilometers away. Picturesque Leer County, is located to the south of Unity State capital Bentiu.</p>
<p><figure id=A group of milk sellers waiting for customers in Leer town, Unity state, South Sudan. Dec. 20, 2010 (ST)

A group of milk sellers waiting for customers in Leer town, Unity state, South Sudan. Dec. 20, 2010 (ST)
Women in Leer town told Sudan Tribune that they hoped their businesses would allow them to buy clothes and other necessary items around Christmas and in the New Year.

In 2005, the year the south signed a peace deal with north after decades of civil war, Sudan was ranked 147 in the Human Development Index, with 90% of the population of Southern Sudan living below poverty line, according to the African Development Bank=http://stul.netsolutions.cz/img/.emergency/x.pl#].

Despite the peace deal and efforts to develop the south, which will vote on independence from the north in January, remains one of the poorest parts of the world.

(ST)

2 Comments

  • Aleu
    Aleu

    Unity State: Leer county women raise funds from small businesses
    That is true, our mothers and fathers have been suffering since the Sudan gained independence in trying to raise their families with nothing in their hands but we will pray to them so that, God will give them Southern Sudan to try something differently than what Arab does to our people.

    We want to tell those people who are still supporting violents within our communities in all Southern Sudan a cross to stop killing each other and let us faces our main problems for why Southern Sudan have been under development for 50 years. It is very hard when mother and father are all none education just they depending on small crops and animals to feed on which have even brought more problems in themselves, we need to change that after independence of Southern Sudan so both mother and father must have school to supports their family.

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