LEER – At least 1500 flood victims have received food and non-food items in Leer County of oil-rich region of South Sudan’s Unity State.
The food assistance includes wheat flour, soap, bean and rice. The items were distributed last week by Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) and Samaritans Purse in Naak, Thornyor and Leer.
James Door Mathiang Kai, the Director of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission in Leer County, stated that they began the distribution process in Naak, Thornyor.
“The three stations are Naak, Thornyor, and Leer. The Naak station serves the Tuoi Reak community and Adok, while the Thornyor station serves the Thornyor community and Yang,” Mathiang said.
He said each individual wheat flour, soap, small rice, small beans, and mosquito net or plastic sheet.
“The benefiters express happiness for the assistant, say their venerability will not end unless the government should construct the dyke and everybody must cultivate independently.”
One of the beneficiaries, Chabijah Makuer, stated that she receives assistance, but it is limited because it is shared with others who are not beneficiaries.
“We get assistants from organization and when we come here, we thought that we will get something good but now the food we got is very small,” said Makuer.
She expressed hope for receiving more substantial support in the future added that “We just leave our activities for nothing better to go and collect water lilies.”
Angelina Nyakong Tap, another beneficiary expressed her gratitude to the organization for its assistance and requested that a second opportunity be given to those who have not benefited.
“I receive three Malou of wheat flour, soap, cooking oil, gallon of bean, some cups of rice and two backet,” said Nyakong.
“We should thanks to Samaritan Purse, they give us food even though small this one is good, but problem are our sisters who did not get this, they should be given chance to receive like us,” she said.
For over five years, relentless seasonal flooding has displaced more than half the population across Leer and other counties in Unity State.
Homes, grazing land, and farmland have vanished under water, forcing entire communities onto shrinking highlands.
The severe floods have hindered access to farm and basic services in Bentiu town.
