World Vision South Sudan completes 1st Cycle of food distribution to 44,783 Malakal IDP’s

World Vision completes 1st Cycle of food distribution to 44,783 Malakal IDP’s

World Vision South Sudan has successfully completed the first cycle of food and non-food items distribution to the 40,112 internally displaced people (IDPs) at the Malakal Protection of Civilians (POC) site, plus 4,671 others who fled the camp on the night of February 17th when fire gutted it.

More than 4500 IDP’s fled the POC in Malakal town, while 40,000 others chose to remain behind, with neither food nor shelter.

In partnership with the World Food Program (WFP), World Vision kick started food distribution to the affected families on the 21st of February, and 8 days later has been able to distribute a total of 607 metric tons of food items to a total of 44,783 IDPs, both in the camp and those in Malakal town. 

Of the 40,112 beneficiaries reached at the POC camp, 8995 are children under the age of five. According to WFP standards, a single full ration of food distribution is supposed to last for 30 days.

‘’We are glad to have successfully completed this first cycle of food and non-food items to all the affected people. The need for food and other basic necessities like soap, basins, buckets was very high because these people lost everything they had. 

As a child-focused organization, our concern is always the safety and well-being of children so we are glad that we have reached out close to one thousand children with high energy biscuits and other Ready to Use Therapeutic Food,’’ noted Perry Mansfield, the World Vision South Sudan National Director

On the 1st of Feb, the World Vision Response Team finalized food and WASH items distribution in Malakal town to the population that fled Malakal POC.

“A total of 4,671 beneficiaries have been reached in town with 63 metric tons of assorted food commodities. The majority of the IDP’s in Malakal town are still living in open places like school compounds, public hospital compounds and markets,” added Perry.

World Vision has also managed to install a surface water treatment plant (SWAT) for the IDPs in Malakal town.  One SWAT plant is able to pump and store 30,000 liters of water per day. 

A generator through a pipe from the river Nile pumps this water, it is then taken to the treatment tank, cleaned and purified with chlorine and then pumped to various water collection points. 

The IDPs in Malakal town are now accessing clean and safe drinking water at several points. Other partners like IOM and Medair have also managed to put up temporary structures for the affected IDP’s inside the Malakal POC.

Assessments on where the second SWAT system will be installed are ongoing; this will be determined on various points where IDPs collect water from the River Nile. 

World Vision has also managed to secure space inside the POC where it intends to open up a child friendly space.

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