One of Timpir’s board members, Tash Elsley’s lecturer is currently volunteering with MSF in South Sudan. The situation in parts of South Sudan is dire. The communities in Northern Bahr el Ghazal which Timpir supports are fortunately currently not being directly impacted on, but our thoughts are with the more than 1.5 million displaced, and all those who are being affected by the current conflict.
https://www.voanews.com/africa/un-humanitarian-chief-warns-major-humanitarian-crisis-south-sudan
via the Refugee Law Project (RLP) “Roughly 3.5 million South Sudanese people – at least one – quarter of the entire country’s population – have had to leave their homes
This is exactly why Timpir is working so hard to keep girls at school. Education empowers young women to have more options for a brighter future. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/06/south-sudan-child-prostitution-rise-201462881543120146.html
https://www.facebook.com/SBSWorldNewsAustralia/videos/1466109020075409/ “We are facing a tragedy.” More than $4 billion is needed by the end of March to help nearly 20 million people who risk starvation in Nigeria, Somalia, South
