South Sudan SOS Fund

The FAM Foundation’s SOS Fund supports local organizations responding to major global emergencies, such as conflict zones, climate disasters, and humanitarian crises. By enabling rapid, targeted assistance, the Foundation helps mitigate impacts and deliver critical relief to affected communities, including recent support for operations in South Sudan.

Through its SOS Fund, the FAM Foundation is supporting critical humanitarian efforts in South Sudan, where the security situation remains volatile despite the establishment of a unified government and a formal peace agreement.

Despite the signing of a peace agreement and the formation of a unified government, the security situation in many parts of South Sudan remains fragile and unstable. In this video, we share the impact of the FAM Foundation’s supportthrough its SOS Fund, highlighting the essential humanitarian work carried out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on the ground—bringing lifesaving medical care to communities facing ongoing conflict and displacement.

The following video highlights how FAM Foundation’s SOS Fund is supporting Médecins Sans Frontières in delivering lifesaving medical care to those most in need.

Context of the South Sudan crisis

In addition to recurrent conflicts, the country continues to suffer from concurrent emergencies, including severe flooding, food insecurity, and disease outbreaks. According to the United Nations, two-thirds of people are in need of humanitarian assistance such as food, water, and healthcare.

Work of the Medecins Sans Frontieres in South Sudan

MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres) teams provide a range of services, including general healthcare, mental healthcare, and specialist hospital care. MSF mobile teams also provide health assistance to displaced people and remote communities in eight of the country’s 10 states and in two administrative areas. In addition to responding to emergencies and disease outbreaks, MSF also carries out preventative activities, such as vaccination campaigns, seasonal malaria chemoprevention, safe drinking water, and non-food items distribution.

MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres) run one of their largest assistance programmes worldwide in South Sudan, responding to the many health needs resulting from ongoing conflict, extreme weather events and disease outbreaks.

MSF since 1983 in South Sudan

01. Conflict and displacement	02. Acess to healthcare	03. Infectious disease outbreaks	04. Neglected tropical diseases
05. Climate change and floods	06. Access to clean water and sanitation	07. Supporting the health system

Help of FAM Foundation to South Sudan

Medical care is practically non-existent for people living in remote areas in South Sudan. Thanks to FAM Foundation the teams of MSF were able to provide medical assistance to people in need, fleeing from violence. The teams form MSF run hospitals and clinics and supports existing government-run facilities, in particular with maternal, paediatric, neonatal and surgical care, and mental health support. MSF is also training community healthcare workers and run outreach and preventative activities, such as vaccination campaigns. 

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