Restoring dignity - Terekeka, South Sudan

About 6.6 million, over 50 percent of the population are experience high level of food insecurity with chronic vulnerabilities worsened by frequent climate-related flooding and dry spells, macro-economic crisis, lack of peace and low agricultural production. 

Today we met a group of 15 women that have gone from nothing to be producer of food in their community. Through the project run by Africa Life Aid together with NPA, they have learnt sustainable agriculture. They produce their own seeds, and grow different vegetables with 3 harvests a year, and transport and sell their products at the local market, but mostly in Juba where the prices are higher. 

I will always remember their words: 
We had nothing, not even any worth as a human being
Now we have food to eat,
can send our children to the school, 
and we have clothes like normal people. 

This is a journey from starvation to become heroines.