Upon the independence of South Sudan from Sudan, many native South Sudanese are unable to return to their homeland, South Sudan. With limited money and resources, many are stuck on the border in makeshift camps. In addition to the financial struggle of those traveling, this developing region does not have adequate roads, thus limiting the transportation of individuals. Similar to those in refugee camps, those held up on the border of these two countries are faced with disease and malnutrition. Trapped in a “limbo”, the South-Sudanese have limited access to food and are living in low sanitation areas. Threatened by the severe rains of the area, the South-Sudanese are potentially surrounded by damp conditions and ultimately place a halt in their return home. A combination off all of these, damp conditions, inadequate living spaces, lack of food, serve as a dangerous recipe for contracting fatal diseases. Because Sudan and South- Sudan are developing nations, the opportunities are restricted and the availability of nutritious foods, sufficient health care, and sanitary living quarters are highly rare. In an attempt alleviate the hardship these people face, NGO’s such as UNICEF and other organizations are providing aid such as vitamin supplements and clean drinking water to the “refugees”, especially those most vulnerable, children. Moreover, these aid-relief organizations are helping the groups find a safe way to return to their homeland, South-Sudan. In hardships such as this, it is vital to provide aid to those in need to ensure the over-all well-being of individuals worldwide.
Refugees are a large part of those suffering on a global health scale. The supplies that are can be provided to the refuges in Sudan are limited. Sudan needs to find a way to let its refugees return home safely and escape their poor living conditions. Some help can be provided by organizations such as NGC and UNICEF but a lot of help needs to come from internal efforts from Sudan.
ReplyDeleteSome things to look at are that refugees, especially in this case, will probably never had adequate living space because in essence, they are travelers. They use makeshift homes because putting more resources into a home they're going to leave is a waste.
ReplyDeleteAlso, as it is constantly raining, getting supplies to the refugees would be extremely hard as the terrain around Sudan is crappy at best.
Sudan is already listed as the 4th major country of origin for refugees. Because the independence of South Sudan is very recent, just in July this year, it would be interesting to see how the barriers for South Sudanese, and Sudanese, to return home have increased. It would be interesting also to see if they were previously considered IDPs, and how their struggles change. Regardless, migration from one area to another is very difficult under the environments they have to endure.
ReplyDeleteAs the professor has talk about that clean water is one of the important issues for refugees. There might limit supplies for refuges in Sudan. People who in the makeshift camp, especially children, are the vulnerable to get disease and malnutrition. We should concern the issue how to reduce children get infected from disease in a makeshift camp. In order to support the development of children in South Sudan. We need to ensuring that children have safe places to play, as well as food, shelter, clean water, health care and education facilities.
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