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Child Protection

Children in South face a lot of challenges and child abuse because of wars and on-going inter-communal conflicts within the country, this has led to widespread internal displacement and which has exposed the children the dangerous environment. recruitment by armed forces and armed groups where thousands of children below the children of 18 years, child marriage, 52 percent of all girls are married before the age of 18 years, gender-based violence is widespread and thousands of children are separated from their parents leaving them vulnerable to violence, abuse and exploitation and lack adequate adult care or support.

To ensure the needs of the children and challenges of children are addressed, Gefass will lobby and advocate with different stakeholders, partners and donors to continue to provide support for the children. GEFASS will also be at the fore front in fighting children marriage its area of operation through encouraging girls to remain in school, awareness creation to the parents on the importance of child protection.

Health and Nutrition

It is estimated that about 56% of the population in South Sudan do not have access to public health facilities some of which have been destroyed or are not established. This gap in the health service provision affects women and children who are the most vulnerable. There is very high mortality rate and rampant SRH which is further exacerbated by the cultural norms of early and forced marriage and the poor state of hygiene.

The situation is further worsened by the post-independence crisis that culminated into population displacement and destruction of traditional forms of livelihoods such as rearing of livestock for food thus negatively affecting the nutrition status of the communities which has led to high malnutrition rates of the children that has led to low immune levels in the children thus exposing the children to the to both communicable and non-communicable diseases. With her experienced and professional medical staff, hygiene promoters, peace building actors GEFASS is and will continue intervening into the mentioned thematic areas especially in regard to the vulnerable members of the community.

In a nutshell, to ensure the effective humanitarian service delivery, GEFASS is will continue to collaborate with the local government authorities, multinational agencies, grassroots members such as PMCs and the general stakeholders, NNGO and others to identify maternal, new born and maternal infant and young children nutrition and malnutrition , a common phenomenon in poor countries like South Sudan where resources are limited to a few individuals that have enriched themselves at the expense of population.

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WASH

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and especially in education is another one of GEFASS’s thematic areas of intervention. This is because school children have a right to basic WASH facilities such as improved latrines, safe drinking water and hand washing facilities in the schools and provision of dignity kits. This is because when these facilities are available and functioning effectively, children can learn better and bring concepts and practices in respect to sanitation and hygiene back to their families.

In all rural villages, water, sanitation and hygiene are the most prominent causes of a variety of diseases affecting the population. Due to poor sanitation and hygiene, there is prevalence of diarrheal diseases affecting both children and adults. Girls drop out of schools because of poor sanitation and hygienic environment. We as GEFASS advocate for WASH facilities both in schools and at home and are therefore geared at strengthening WASH in Health.

Environmental conservation question

GEFASS views the environmental question with great concern and therefore brings groups of women and the youth together to discuss issues pertinent to the environment such as deforestation, a forestation and reforestation. GEFASS promotes the ideal of sensitizing women in the ideal of using fuel saving stoves while training them on how to produce cheap fuel in form of charcoal briquettes from charcoal dust, saw dust and biomass.

Apart from serving as an income generating initiative, these activities of domestically producing their our cooking fuel, protects the women from gross GBV abuses mated to the women as they go out to look for firewood and have also positioned the women at fore front in the communities as ardent advocates of environmental protection and conservation.

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GBV (Addressing issues of Gender equality and general protection)

GBV is refers to any harmful act perpetrated against a person’s will and is based on socially ascribed roles, and Gender equality refers to the absence of discrimination on the basis of sex. Ideally gender equality is when one sex is not routinely privileged or prioritized over the others and where all people are recognized, respected and valued for their capacities and potential as an individual and members of the society

Furthermore in gender equality, girls, boys, women and men have equal rights and are obliged to receive opportunities to security, good health, available livelihood avenues, dignified work opportunities, participatory caring of homes and dependent family members and taking active part in public and political life, learning and participating in the relevant educational systems and living a life free from violence. GEFASS therefore advocates gender equality in all aspects of life in South Sudan and shall take the lead of ensuring that the fight for gender equality shall be a prerequisite to the service provision in all their thematic areas.