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 making soaps to improve their household income and support overall wellbeing of children in the family. The trainer conducted a practical hand on simulation with various soap making chemicals for making both liquid hand washing soap and hard bar soap.

WOCO is dedicated to creating new opportunities for low-income people, particularly women as part of income generating activities that will enable vulnerable women provide basic needs for their children. 

This intensive soap-making making training is to transfer skills that would enable them supplement household income and take care of their basic needs and promote resilience. 

Soap making is a common good that is usually used for washing and bathing and other types of housekeeping activities.

Its economically very viable, easy to produce and really marketable that makes it the quickest way of generating income.

 

 Women and children in Fashoda County are at the epicenter of humanitarian crises that stemmed from communal fighting and flooding due to climate change. 

The situation is aggravated by the current political crisis that triggered mass exodus of South Sudanese from their refuge in the Sudan. Many South Sudanese were displaced in the Sudan between 2013 and 2016 due to the conflict that broke out in the country that time.