The project focuses on ten communities in Maban county in Upper Nile State, one of the country's poorest and most remote regions. Oxfam is providing clean water, supporting the building of household latrines, and promoting safe public hygiene practices to improve community health and reduce the risk of water-related diseases.

Oxfam has been supporting conflict-affected communities in Sudan since 1983, helping both displaced and host communities by improving water and sanitation, and enabling people to rebuild their lives and livelihoods. We have been working in Upper Nile State since 2003 and have built a good relationship with communities and government authorities. which we will continue to strengthen with this project. This is part of Oxfam's wider public health, livelihoods and humanitarian programmes in South Sudan that aim to reach over 165,000 people.

Project aims

• Improve the availability of safe, clean drinking water by constructing new water sources and repairing existing ones.
• Reduce the incidence of preventable diseases by supporting the building of latrines and promoting improved community hygiene and sanitation practices.
• Ensure that water sources can be maintained and managed by local communities in the long term.

Yunes Nyajiath has been a trained village health promoter since 2007. One of her jobs is to visit homes to talk to families about how they can avoid common hygiene-related infections and diseases such as diarrhoea and trachoma. She encourages families to dig their own latrines, use soap, have a closed rubbish pit and use a rack for drying kitchen utensils.

Yunes Nyajiath, Malou village, Maban county, Upper Nile state

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