Men, women and children of Guffa, a remote village of the Upper Nile State, surround a bucket filled with river water.

Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes due to the conflict that has convulsed Sudan’s border states since South Sudan became an independent country. 

SIMaid is working alongside locals to provide vital access to safe water in order to
provide overall wellbeing and long term development.

The water team is committed to do whatever it takes to ensure that the communities around Doro have a safe source of drinking water. This involves addressing the reality that that within the region there are a number of bore holes that have stopped working

Over the past few months pro- ject staff have been focussed on repairing some of the community boreholes....