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Youth Camp- A Different Life All Together
Imagine this: From the moment you get out of your bed; a heap rugs on a cold earthen floor , a heavy blanket of urine stench welcomes you. This is because of the broken sewer running outside your 6×6 square foot home. Your stomach growls for some food, since dinner was not available last night. To use a bathroom costs you at least Kshs.2, an amount you could use to buy a slice of bread or two; posing tough choices. And home; home is nothing like where the other kids, in an estate only a mile away, live. Home is a cardboard shanty, and if lucky, maybe a tin roof to shelter you from the rain. School is the place to look forward to as people of goodwill in the neighborhood take you in to teach and feed you on porridge and lunch.
While this is merely your imagination, it is the reality for Sam Muthonga; the life he lives.
Read more >Snake Bites in South Sudan
Who would ever imagine that a country as dry and as famine ridden as South Sudan would find the downpour of rains a curse? Yet the rainy season from May to October is both a blessing and a curse to many residents, every year. While the rains enhance agricultural activities with various food crops thriving, thereby improving food security, other life threatening occurrences are also rife.
Apart from accidents such as drowning, this season sees an increase in the number of life threatening snakes and scorpions. Each year, numerous patients visit Christian Mission Aid (CMA) run health care facilities with snake bites and scorpion stings.
Read more >Making bold steps towards a better life
More than two decades of war denied millions of Sudanese basic amenities, and encumbered development in South Sudan. Juaibor, located in Jonglei State, is a remote area where Christian Mission Aid (CMA) is working to improve livelihoods, enhance self-sufficiency and promote peace through the program, Sustaining Peace and Enhancing Livelihoods in Southern Sudan (SPELS). Some of the core activities under SPELS are: small scale agriculture; fishing; distribution of goats and micro trading. In just under two years of SPELS activities in the area, CMA is already noting great progress. We share a few success stories.