Women and girls in South Sudan are responsible for collecting water for use by their families. In doing so, they face heightened risks; of experiencing GBV, having a limited access to safe water and the risk of water-borne diseases.

At WART, our Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) department supports South Sudanese women and girls to easily access safe water through the drilling of boreholes, construction of water points, and the rehabilitation of broken water points.

Additionally, through our primary WASH partner UNFPA, we distribute dignity kits to girls to ensure that they are able to remain in school, even during their monthly menstrual cycle.

Our WASH teams also provide training to women on water-borne diseases and how they can be avoided through the consumption of safe and clean water. WART also provides training on water preservation and water treatment methods, to ensure communities are able to consume safe water.

As a result, our WASH trainings are able to be united components across all of our programmes, enabling an integrated and targeted response to aid and support in the overall wellbeing of the women and girls; and the communities we passionately advocate for.

In the past year, within Rubkona county in Unity State, with a donation from St Luke’s Methodist Church in the United Kingdom, we have been able to distribute dignity kits to over 1,000 women and girls.