WOCO ROLLS OUT CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM TO STRENGHTEN STAFF CAPACITY

11 months ago

This comes after an exhaustive process of assessing both organizational and staff capacities. The training is tailored to the needs of the organization and the staff capacity gap...

WOCO STEPS UP EFFORTS TO REDUCE THE SUFFERING OF PEOPLE WITH IMPAIRMENTS

11 months ago

With increased humanitarian challenges affecting many of people in South Sudan, a huge toll is on the people who are living with physically impairments. In the restive region of ...

WOCO trains Women on soaps making in Kodok, Fashoda

1 year ago

Women in Kodok can now make both liquid hand soap and bar soap. In a three days training conducted in Kodok targeting 23 women, the learners were introduced to the basic skills in ...

WOCO’s response to crisis in Fashoda County

1 year ago

The conflict which erupted in Fashoda County between September and October ,2023, displaced thousands of civilians in multiple locations. An inter-agency assessment team led by OCH...

Ojwol finally gets wheel chair

1 year ago

When I visited Malakal PoCs in August 2022, Mutahakit Ojwol had to scroll from his place to CFS which is about 100 meters away. This struggle continues amidst various challenges; t...

SSWOCO trains staff on Gender and disability inclusion in projects in Kodok, Fashoda

1 year ago

South Sudan Widows and Orphans Charitable Organization has conducted a training to project staff in Kodok Fashoda on gender and disability inclusion in programs. The two days trai...

WOCO ORGANIZES TRAINING FOR SSJR PARTNERS’ AAP OFFICERS

1 year ago

As parts of its mandate, South Sudan Widows and Charitable Organization SSWOCO organized a training on data collection, entry and analysis aims at strengthening the capacity of Acc...

The effects of war on children

1 year ago

Experiencing armed conflict during childhood and adolescence poses serious mental health risks and threats to a child&'s development. Exposure to different types of violence, ...

SSWOCO provides Child Friendly Spaces to promote MHPSS for Children in emergency.

1 year ago

During emergencies, children are often exposed to injuries, exploitations, abuses and other dangers. SSWOCO’s created Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) in Malakal PoCs and Kodok u...

SSWOCO Uses Community dialogues to Strengthen response to aids service.

1 year ago

South Sudan Widows and Orphans Charitable Organization SSWOCO, uses community-based dialogue to cultivate connection and deep learning through exploration of critical and contentio...

SSWOCO launches new project for 2023

1 year ago

South Sudan Widows and Orphans Charitable Organization SSWOCO has launched a new top-up project for 2023 targeting some 1.4 million of people in need of aids in Upper Nile State. ...

WOCO joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women Day in Malakal UN PoCs and Kodok

1 year ago

This year’s celebration calls on everyone to #EmbraceEquity and acknowledge that, true gender equity manifests itself when all are included in actions that affects them. Hun...

Menstrual hygiene encourages girls to attend schools in rural areas

2 years ago

For girls of reproductive age to attend schools regularly without fear of being caught up in the middle of their monthly cycle, WOCO supports girls with hygiene kits to encourage t...

Vulnerable women generate more income using locally sourced products

2 years ago

Susana Ayeng Anei aka Nyathow sits in her tea shop in Kodok, the Fashoda County head quarter attending to her clients. The twenty four year old mother of one is one of many women ...

Psychosocial Support- Children gain senses and recover from conflict triggered trauma

2 years ago

Hundreds of thousands of children in South Sudan suffer unthinkable distress due to armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. They are forced to flee t...

Community dialogue and Engagement at the center of WOCO’s intervention

2 years ago

In areas where WOCO pushes for humanitarian assistance to most vulnerable members of conflict affected communities, community dialogues comes at the center of every intervention. W...

WOCO distributes more hygiene kits to flood affected teenage girls in Kodok

2 years ago

At least twenty seven children of school going age have received hygiene kits as part of WOCO’s support to crises affected people. The package contains sanitary pads, washing...

Why Children Psychosocial Wellbeing Matters- WOCO does it right

2 years ago

Among the most noticeable games that the children enjoy in these centers is the jump rope. WOCO supports Jump rope as one of the games in Child Friendly Spaces. In this games one o...

WOCO and War Child Holland provides assistance to children fleeing fighting in Upper Nile State

2 years ago

Widows and Orphans Charitable Organization and War Child Holland provide nonfood items to the newly displaced civilians at Malakal PoCs in Upper Nile State. The aids target some o...

“What has he come to do here, why is he taking my picture? Will he take me away from here?”

2 years ago

Like any other children at the protection civilian site (PoCs) in Malakal, Mutahakit Ojwol finds his way to the Child Friendly Space, CFS run by Widows and Orphans Charitable Organ...

I am better now; I can buy food and clothes to my children

2 years ago

Mary Chol, 28 years old mother of three is among many women who bear the brunt of war. She is the resident of Odar Village located north of Kodok Payam in Fashoda County of Upper N...

A time to celebrate- 17 years old Francis Tipo breaths sigh of relief

2 years ago

Driven out of his home in 2014, Francis Abraham Tipo was just eleven years old at the time. With intense fighting in Upper Nile State where Kodok, a county where Tipo lived, was se...

WOCO provides psychosocial support to victims of flood Aburoc IDPs site and the surrounding areas

2 years ago

As part of its psychosocial support intervention in Aburoc, WOCO is providing Child friendly space to war affected children in Aburoc IDPs camp in Fashoda County, Upper Nile. The s...

WOCO provides a child friendly space for children to practice life skills games in Malakal PoC

2 years ago

At least sixty children in Malakal POCs have participated in games that were designed for emotional response and anger management. The games and the plays were part of the ps...

WOCO launches distribution of hygiene kits in Aburoc to support adolescent girls and women.

2 years ago

At least one hundred girls and women of reproductive age have received dignity kits containing washing soaps, sanitary pads, slippers, body lotions, pair of scissors, solar powered...

WOCO endeavors to improve lives through business support training in Income Generating Activities

2 years ago

WOCO through its field based staff conducts business skill training to selected beneficiaries in Aburoch IDPs camp in Fashoda county upper Nile state. The training is to enable mem...

WOCO strives to boost Food Security, and Household Nutrition

2 years ago

In an effort to tame the growing food security and nutrition concerns in families, WOCO with the support from War Child Holland, distributed vegetable seeds to IDPs in Aburoc IDPs ...

The Pain of Losing a Mother After Child Birth

3 years ago

The above grandmother lost a daughter as a result of complications on delivery. Inaccessibility, inadequatematernal health care services coupled with lack of trained health person...

“Never give up you are stronger than you think”

3 years ago

I am 15 years old a returnee from Kakuma refugees camp in Kenya. I am a class eight student I was in one of school run by an NGO in Kakuma refugees camp. My mother came back to Sou...

Reaching the most affected children and families in the flood affected areas

3 years ago

The heavy rainfall which began in July 2020 to end of November caused tragedy to the people of South Sudan. According to the report of UN Office for Coordination of Humanitar...

Effects of Child Abuse on the displaced children

3 years ago

Every child who has experienced abuse, violence and exploitation will respond differently to the stress and trauma. While some children have long-lasting effects, others are able t...

Ramadan Success Story

7 years ago

Ramadan is a vulnerable 13-year-old child living together with his parents and two siblings a brother and sister in Aburoc. Ramadan is mentally impaired. This problem is not only w...

Reunification after 3 years of separation

7 years ago

Nyapach Ojang is a 45-yearold a mother of 7 children, she was a government employee in Malakal and was staying peacefully with her family before war erupted in Malakal. In 2013 the...