The high levels of food insecurity in South Sudan caused by years of conflict, drought, floods and food price shocks have led to high malnutrition rates that are above the emergency thresholds, with about 22% of children and about 23% of pregnant and lactating mothers being malnourished.

Inadequate access to safe food, water, nutrition services, poor primary health care and limited opportunities to protect, promote, and guarantee optimal infant and young child feeding are a lived reality.

Young children, pregnant, and breast-feeding women are particularly vulnerable thus the need to protect their nutritional status, prevent under malnutrition, and guarantee survival. In Jonglei and Lakes States, we run centers that screen and treat children for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), providing them with highly nutritious food or medical care in severe cases.

We also provide them with essential nutritional information on foods rich in nutrients and their preparation methods. We are engaging women in kitchen gardening as an additional way to overcome malnutrition.

We also support local health workers and communities to identify and manage malnutrition, as well as building the capacity of the Ministry of Health to prevent and address malnutrition.

Our nutrition projects seek to lower the incidence of malnutrition, avert mortality due to malnutrition and promote better nutritional status among populations in most affected communities at large. The specific objective of the program is to initiate and facilitate community-based nutrition actions targeting nutritionally vulnerable groups in humanitarian contexts