Story type: Story

 

South Sudan: united we progress

In the local Lotuko language Ituba means ‘united we progress’. It is also the name chosen by a group of 30 women in Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan for their one-month old village savings and loans (VSLA) group. A statement of purpose and of hope.

 

South Sudan: a life reduced to fourteen rusty cups

Stacked neatly in a pyramid fourteen rusted metal cups represent all that is left of 11-year-old Regina’s life. Belongings carefully guarded and transported some 2,000 kilometres back from Khartoum, Sudan in 2011 - to mark the family’s new life in the nascent country of South Sudan - have all been destroyed.