© action medeor Info © action medeor South Sudan: Aid continues! Close-up Despite the great need, reporting on South Sudan is getting quieter and quieter. Help us to ensure that the people on the ground are not forgotten! Urgent need: Health aid The healthcare system in South Sudan has been devastated by years of conflict. Mothers with sick children often have to walk for hours to get medical help. 75 percent of all child deaths are due to preventable diseases such as diarrhea, malaria or pneumonia. This makes the aid deliveries by action medeor, which have been helping to save lives for years, all the more important. In action since 2012 For years, action medeor has been delivering aid packages containing rescue medicines and medical supplies to trusted partner organizations in South Sudan. In recent years, we have been able to tell you encouraging stories of energetic helpers time and again. For young and old: At Comboni Hospital in Wau, the doctor and nun Dr. Marianna Santin is fully committed to caring for her patients. Trainee midwife Regina Bangireago accompanies expectant mothers and their babies here. The hospital is dependent on regular aid deliveries. Sister Gracy Adichirayil has been providing healthcare aid in Wau since 1998. She has built up the Mary Help Hospital from a small health station - with an operating theater, a laboratory and a small pharmacy. Father Shyjan from the Salesians of Don Bosco looks after the needs of internally displaced people. The Salesians offer free medical assistance in several health facilities. Overview: Developments in South Sudan and the aid provided by action medeor 2017: The civil war that broke out in 2013 spreads to three more states. A third of the population is displaced. action medeor sends more than 66 tons of medicines to eleven hospitals and refugee camps. 2018: After five years of civil war, the parties to the conflict conclude a peace agreement, which has still not been fully implemented. Our deliveries go to the Comboni Hospital in Wau and to the Salesians of Don Bosco. 2019: The life-saving aid continues: action medeor delivers 11.1 tons of relief supplies to Comboni Hospital in Wau and to the Salesians of Don Bosco in Gumbo and Juba. 2020: Due to the global spread of the coronavirus pandemic, action medeor sends masks and disinfectants. 2021: We supply the Comboni Hospital in Wau and the Salesians of Don Bosco with relief supplies. Late 2021: Severe flooding destroys roads, fields, houses and schools. 900,000 people are affected, water and health services are impaired. 2022: The Comboni Hospital in Wau and the Salesians of Don Bosco receive shipments weighing 18.5 tons. Late 2022: Two thirds of the country's eleven million inhabitants have too little to eat - the highest level since the state was founded. Around 1.5 million people are still displaced within their own country. 2023: We deliver more than six tons of medical supplies to Comboni Hospital in Wau at the end of February. A further delivery to the Salesians of Don Bosco is in preparation. How your donation helps - worldwide: Dr. Marianna Santin, Father Shyjan, Sister Gracy Adichirayil - they are all facing the crisis with great commitment and unwavering humanity. To ensure that they can continue to provide adequate care for the needy and sick, they are absolutely dependent on further support.