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Moses Mapuor is a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for Mercy Corps South Sudan.
Location:
juba, Rumbek, South Sudan
Why I support Mercy Corps:
To improve the life of people MC serves
I am passionate about the following issues:
people affected by all kinds of disaster e.g.( war, famine, rampant poverty, flood, lack of skills/technology to improve living standard etc.
Recent Posts
Sudan July 5, 2011 10:15AM
An uncertain future for Nyan-man Ajiing and her children
Moses Mapuor
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, South Sudan
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"I’m a returnee from Khartoum and now a displaced person from Abyei," 30-year-old Nyan-man Ajiing explained.
Nyan-man Ajiing, 30 years old and the mother of seven-month-old triplets, has had to move twice in the last eight months, and is now struggling to survive in a displacement camp. Photo: Moses Mapuor/Mercy Corps
Nyan-man, the mother of triplets — two boys and a girl — had been in Khartoum during the long Sudanese civil war. In December 2010, she returned to her ancestral home in the city of Abyei, along with other thousands of returnees who came back to South Sudan in anticipation of independence, which was set in motion with a referendum vote on January 9, 2011. Southern Sudanese like Nyan-man also feared how would be treated in the north after the south secedes later this week, on July 9.
According to Nyan-man, being a returnee from Khartoum was difficult — but it was better than being an internally-displaced person (IDP) from Abyei with three children, all aged just seven months old. While she was living in Abyei, she made and sold tea to purchase powdered milk for her three kids, as her milk alone wasn't enough for three hungry babies. But now, living in displacement, she has no opportunity to sell tea, and so there is no way she can raise any money for milk for her children.
South Sudan May 25, 2011 9:31AM
Realizing South Sudan's food potential
Moses Mapuor
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, South Sudan
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Mercy Corps is helping increase agricultural knowledge, food security and sustainability in Sudan. Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps
"Agriculture is the only way of eradicating poverty in South Sudan." — Kawac Deng Kawac, Awiel East commissioner in address to the Agriculture Trade fair organized by Mercy Corps
Many people are aware of the oil wealth in South Sudan but it is less well known that my soon-to-be-independent country is incredibly fertile with huge agricultural potential. Yet many of the population suffer from constant food insecurity as the legacy of civil war leaves few people with the knowledge to engage in anything more than low level subsistence farming.
Sudan imports large amounts of goods from Kenya and Uganda, but has the potential to be a regional breadbasket and — as the commissioner noted above — can alleviate poverty in the process.
