World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

WFP launched an operation to provide food assistance to tens of thousands of people uprooted by violence in Pibor County of Jonglei State in South Sudan. The operation is taking place in areas where the humanitarian community has been able to gain access into Pibor County, with distributions in Dorein and Pibor Town. These areas are difficult to reach, requiring the use of helicopters to airlift the food commodities.

The helicopter airlifts the food commodities out to the emergency area.

Assistance in difficult-to-reach areas requires the use of helicopters to bring the food commodities to displaced communities.

Clashes between government forces and insurgents as well as renewed violence between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities have forced many women and children to seek refuge in forest location.

WFP plans to provide assistance to 60,000 through to December as aid agencies gain more access to more people displaced by the violence in Pibor County.

Many families say they have gone for months without a proper meal. The food assistance is a welcome support.

A woman carries a bag of sorghum on her head and heads to the area where her family has sought refuge.

A member of the displaced communities in Dorein smiles as he lifts a 50kg sack of lentils from the area where it was unloaded from the helicopter to the distribution point.

A woman in Dorein sits next to the food assistance including a sack of sorghum and a tin of vegetable oil she has just received from WFP for her family. The assistance also includes salt and lentils.

A helicopter departs after airlifting 2 metric tons of food assistance from Bor the state capital of Jonglei to Dorein, one of the locations, alongside Pibor Town and Labrab which humanitarian groups have been able to gain access to in South Sudan’s Pibor County.