Caritas, working alongside Congolese authorities and other international agencies, has helped in the fight of Ebola by operating social and psychological assistance and food distribution programs.

Address: Juba-Paleka Compound, P.O. Box 258, Juba-South Sudan
Telephone: +211 918344623 / +211 921005555
Email: director@caritassouthsudan.org
www.caritasouthsudan.org
Caritas South Sudan was founded in 2011 following the independence of South Sudan and is the official organisation of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sudan. In their first year of operation the agency has witnessed significant growth and many notable achievements. These include considerable strengthening of systems and organisational development of the national and the diocesan offices, as well as humanitarian activities and responses through the Caritas Emergency Appeal.
Caritas South Sudan solidarity with the poor and commitment to serve the human person in love and dignity are the underpinnings to the agency’s initiatives. Programmes that include capacity building for sustainable development, campaigns advocating for peace and national reconciliation, prevention methods to curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic and disaster preparedness and humanitarian relief to deploy a prompt response to a country prone to regular disasters, both natural and man-made, such as droughts, famines and conflict.
Caritas South Sudan’s main office is in Juba and has a staff of around 15 employees. The national secretariat is entrusted within the task of coordinating the 6 dioceses in the implementation of their activities.
Caritas South Sudan is a member of Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Africa. The agency collaborates with Caritas partners to facilitate their initiatives, such as a project in 2012 with Catholic Relief Services USA to provide shelter, water, capacity building, sanitation and hygiene promotion
Updates from South Sudan

In January 2017 we met South Sudan refugees who are living in Bidi Bidi in Uganda. 18 months later we've returned to the refugee camp to see the difference Caritas programmes are making to people who live there.

East Africa and the Horn of Africa are confronting a humanitarian crisis that may worsen in 2018. Armed conflict and severe drought are causing extreme levels of hunger. Up to 35 million people are in need of urgent food assistance across the region.

East Africa faces a massive humanitarian crisis. It threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Severe drought and violent conflict fuel food insecurity. Caritas is striving to respond to enormous challenges across the region. Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan are suffering from severe drought. Areas such as central and southern Somalia ...

“People can’t afford to buy food, they can’t grow food and aid agencies can’t deliver enough food to keep them alive,” said Sebastian Kämpf, who supports Caritas in Wau, South Sudan. “People are already dying with the worst still ahead.” The first famine in 6 years was officially declared by the UN in parts of ...

“We are overstretched and as we speak we are receiving more patients,” said Dr. Mohamed Dahir, who as a medical doctor in Somalia is struggling to cope with high levels of malnutrition. There is a massive influx of people into the region of Gedo in South Central Somalia where he works. They are fleeing drought. ...

Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe, President of Caritas South Sudan and Bishop of Yei, will be in Rome from 21 March for a meeting of South Sudan experts to discuss the worsening crisis in his country where famine has been declared in the midst of civil war. “We anticipate very difficult times ahead in the coming ...

Parts of South Sudan face famine due to an ongoing civil war, collapse of law and order and drought. William Okot de Toby is the managing director of a diocesan Caritas, Caritas Torit, in the south-eastern part of the country. He answered our questions.

Following the declaration of famine in Unity State, South Sudan this week, the country’s Catholic bishops have issued a powerful pastoral letter condemning the country’s civil war and labelling the famine as “man-made”.
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