South Sudan

Population: 10.9 million
People in Need: 8.9 million

Our Impact

People Helped Last Year: 1,191,678
Our Team: 282 employees
Program Start: 1985

The State of Hunger in South Sudan

Three in four families in South Sudan face severe food insecurity. Food insecurity is the highest since the country gained independence in 2011. South Sudan is vastly underdeveloped, lacking basic infrastructure for education, health systems, safe water, functioning markets, or paved roads.

About 80 percent of the population live in rural areas and rely on livestock and subsistence farming to survive. Conflict and climate disasters, including extreme flooding, has destroyed homes and food sources and driven families to flee, often with few resources to survive.

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How We're Helping in South Sudan

In hard-to-reach areas of South Sudan, Action Against Hunger is often the only organization providing lifesaving health and nutrition services and access to safe water. We’re helping hundreds of thousands of people impacted by extreme flooding, including building a new waterway for people and supplies, teaching rice farming in flood-prone areas, and more.

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59%

Of People Lack Access to Clean Water

Achoc and her one year old daughter Atong receive care at an Action Against Hunger nutrition center.

1.6M

Children At Risk of Acute Malnutrition

Meet Paguir's First Doctor

Paguir is a remote area of South Sudan that humanitarian workers can only reach via a 2-hour flight followed by 4 hours by canoe, and then 6 hours trekking through a swamp. In 2019, we opened Paguir’s first health clinic, where Dr. Paulino treats dangerously malnourished children and provide health services to families.