Read our 2018 annual report
Concern's objectives, activities and achievements in 2018 can be found in our new annual report.
Read the reportWhy are we in South Sudan? South Sudan gained independence in July 2011 and has experienced a long history of conflict, displacement and deepening humanitarian needs. In response to the growing needs, we are providing emergency, resilience and long-term development programming.
Over two million South Sudanese refugees have fled into neighbouring countries and another 1.74 million are displaced within South Sudan. Many of the internally displaced people are living in Protection of Civilian sites. Hunger and food insecurity are extremely prevalent. In 2017, famine was declared in some parts of the country, and currently, 59% of the population – or 6.1 million people – do not have sufficient access to food. The humanitarian response plan for 2019 estimates that seven million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
“It’s hard to cope with what you’re seeing because people have nothing. It was two days wandering around the camp before I saw a child with a piece of paper. There are no toys. Nothing.”
Programme impact
Concern reached over 400,000 of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in South Sudan through health and nutrition, water, sanitation, food security, and shelter programmes.
Emergency response
Building NGO capacity
Irish artist Brian Maguire travelled with Concern Worldwide to a Protection of Civilian camp in Bentiu in 2018. The site is home to 120,000 people who have been displaced by war in South Sudan. His ‘HUMANITY Site Unseen’ exhibition is inspired by the people he met there. His works bear witness to a crisis so vast, it's sufferers have been rendered anonymous by scale.
We're working hard to respond to the growing needs in South Sudan through emergency programming which includes activities around health, food security, and water sanitation and hygiene.
