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 who struggle to raise income for their family. Nyathow husbands went to Sudan and never came back, now she is living with her mother in Kodok. She has been in the tea business for two years now.
South Sudan Women and Orphan Charitable Organization SSWOCO, supports and promotes women led income generating activities in order to increase their house hold incomes through livelihood diversification to alleviate poverty.In May this year, Nyathow and many other women like her have received a cash support from WOCO with support from Warchild Holland to improve their businesses.At least USD 6,000 cash has been transferred to women in Kodok and Aburoc to help them expand and boost their businesses through income generating activitiesas well as entrepreneurship skills development and trainings.For generations, South Sudanese women have supported their families and communities by engaging in entrepreneurial activities, however their progress has often been constrained by a mixture of prevailing social norms, institutional impediments, and insufficient access to education, training, business services, and access to financing.“My husband went to Khartoum for treatment and has never come back. I live with my mother and my child. I am the one who take care of them” Nyathow narrates.