Food or health care? In South Sudan, some mothers make life-defining choices as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens.
She goes to bed hungry in hopes her children won’t have to work or beg like many others in South Sudan, a country only a decade old and already ripped apart by civil war.In South Sudan, lives are built and teeter on the edge of uncertainty. A peace deal to end the civil war lags far behind schedule. Violence erupts between ethnic groups. Corruption is widespread. Hunger haunts more than half the population of 12 million people.
To meet this new reality, some South Sudanese children even younger than 10 were sent to work or to panhandle. Girls barely in puberty were married off.Beda told herself she wouldn’t allow her children to become part of what some see as a lost generation of South Sudan, entrenched in poverty without education. She found a job and commutes an hour each way to an office in the capital city of Juba — a rare move for a woman in parts of this largely conservative country.
Juba was a refuge of sorts. Beda could stay home and raise the three children she had before the twins, thanks to her husband’s pay and the humanitarian food aid supplementing it. South Sudan’s health centers weren’t prepared to deal with an outbreak as widespread as COVID-19. They’re seeing infections rise as Africa grapples with a wave of increasingly dangerous cases. Overall, the country has had over 10,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. That’s likely an undercount because of low testing. Oxygen, ICU beds and supplies are scarce. And the country has received a fraction of the vaccines it needs.
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