South Sudanese Activists in Sudan Support, Educate Poor Families on Coronavirus

South Sudanese youth activists in Khartoum, Sudan form initiative to support and educate vulnerable communities during these uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Khartoum, June 1 — A group of youths from South Sudan in Khartoum the capital of Sudan undertook a voluntary awareness initiative called “The Winners Charitable Initiative.”

According to their announcement, they are targeting the people of South Sudan in Sudan.

In a statement to Ubuntu Times, the spokesperson of The Winners Charitable Initiative, Yar Dutt said that they are a group that was established on the twenty-third of April and started its activities from Khartoum. She explained that they are a large group with multiple committees led by Chuang Wat Yang, explaining that since the virus appeared with the policy of closure, many families who were working to earn food were affected by their manual work, which was stopped with the policy of closure in Khartoum.

In our question to her about the funding, “Dut” said that as volunteers, they depend on their own potential, explaining that why their support came late, indicating that they made a fund to collect their donations first, and later, compassionate hearts joined them.

“Yar” revealed that they have now visited a number of families in the local market and provided food items, later they will go to other places around Khartoum, and the neighborhoods where families from South Sudan live in poor conditions, revealing that the conditions of refugees inside the camps are better compared to those in the neighborhoods.

Yar, who talked on behalf of the initiators, explained the needs of the families in Khartoum after conducting field surveys for foodstuffs, tents, hand sanitizers, masks, and soaps. She added that besides all these, they educate families and give them a message that includes how to protect themselves from the Coronavirus.