Feeding the Hungry: South Sudan

10-year-old *Tamaya’s family fled fighting in Sudan in May 2024, escaping across the border into South Sudan, moving from place to place in search of food and shelter.

In mid-2025, staff at Thurlith School found Tamaya, her mum and four siblings, begging in a nearby marketplace. “They were suffering from acute hunger, and at high risk of disease,” say our partners.

Thurlith School, run by Global Care’s partners, the Anglican Diocese of Abyei, is in a desperately unstable part of South Sudan, which is itself one of the most fragile countries in the world.

The area struggles with internal tribal conflict and is also home to thousands of refugees and returnees from the war in Sudan.

Thanks to Global Care and the team at Thurlith, Tamaya and her siblings are now able to access food and medicine, as well as returning to education for the first time since their lives imploded.

*Tamaya is standing on the far left, the only barefooted child.

Tamaya is one of 150 children at the school supported with extra feeding by Global Care last year.

Previous investment by Global Care meant that the school became eligible for feeding through the World Food Programme (WFP), but numbers at the school kept rising – there are now 450 pupils – and the initial WFP distribution was not enough to feed everyone.

Food supplied by Global Care – at a cost of £3,805 from our emergency funds – paid for three months feeding for 150 children, plugging the gap until the next WFP distribution could be made, and providing essential nutrition for some extremely vulnerable children who would otherwise have gone hungry.

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Children's names are changed and their photographs obscured for reasons of protection.