What would you eat if there was no food?
This is the question facing your brothers and sisters in South Sudan.
Their answer? To pick and eat the leaves from the trees around them.
Crop failure means that Christians in South Sudan have no option but to pick and eat wild leaves that are not suitable for human consumption.
These leaves are not suitable for human consumption – but, says our project partner, “they have no alternative”.
South Sudan is widely considered to be the most impoverished country in the world. In this region, Aweil, food insecurity has been worsened by conflict and natural disasters, including the recent floods. Added to this is the strain on food supply caused by increased numbers of refugees from neighbouring Sudan.
Disease and malnutrition is now widespread.
“Many people are dying of starvation,” says a Barnabas Aid contact. “It is feared that the next generation in this region will be lost as children who survive severe malnutrition often suffer permanent physical and cognitive damage.”
Can you meet the needs of your desperately hungry brothers and sisters in Christ?
Right now your brothers and sisters in South Sudan have no alternative to eating wild leaves – but you can provide the alternative.
Barnabas Aid project partners are looking to reach thousands with urgently needed supplies of food, including the most vulnerable: young children, pregnant women and nursing mothers, and the elderly.
Can you donate towards this vital work? Can you pray that lives will be saved?
How you can pray
Lord God and Heavenly Father, please hear the cries of Your people in South Sudan. We pray that You will meet them in their need, providing them with the food that they so desperately require. Please strengthen them in their faith. Please bless this humanitarian work, for we ask it in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
How you can help
$28 could provide a 20kg bag of maize flour
$84 could provide a 90kg bag of sorghum, a staple grain in this region of Africa
$367 could provide twenty 10kg bags of lentils, a good source of protein and carbohydrates
