Local relief organizations calls for exerted efforts to render humanitarian services in South Sudan
October 27, 2015 (PAGAK) – A faith-based local relief organization, the Evangelical Covenant Church of South Sudan (ECCSS), has called on other local humanitarian bodies to step up their efforts to deliver the badly needed basic services in the war-ravaged Upper Nile state.
In a statement issued on Monday, the director of projects and development programme of the relief organization, Reverend Matthews Jok Moses, said their doctors have been treating patients from various ethnicities in the country, as well providing non-food items to the needy.
He however explained there was need for coordinated efforts between international and local relief organizations in order to identify and provide the needed services to the most affected populations.
The local non-governmental organization applauded a US-based Evangelical Covenant Church and its relief wing, the Covenant World Relief (CWR) for sponsoring their activities in a number of health centers in the two counties in Upper Nile state.
Reverend Jok pleaded for internally displaced persons (IDPs) whom he said had been stranded in locations in Maiwut county, urging for immediate support.
“The IDPs who have remained in helpless circumstance in those health centers are desperately looking for immediate supports to save their lives. They lack most of their basic needs,” he said in the statement extended to Sudan Tribune.
Most of the IDPs who flee from the interior part of the oil-rich Upper Nile state find their way at the bordering county with Ethiopian, with some crossing into the neighbouring country as refugees.
There are over 250,000 South Sudanese refugees who crossed into Ethiopia after the December 2013 violence, according to the United Nations, with majority of them being from the Nuer ethnic group.
(ST)