Tag: Health & Wellbeing

Emmanuel gives a talk about puberty to students at Wau, South Sudan.

07 April 2025

Puberty is not a crazy age; I am just growing up
For World Heath Day, an article spotlighting our groundbreaking health and advocacy project GLOW couldn’t be more appropriate. Emmanuel Loboka is the communications officer with the development office in...
Boy in Beirut, looks to camera in JRS Lebanon migrant centre.

18 March 2025

Food Appeal: Hunger Crisis in Lebanon and Syria
The dismantling of USAID has caused shockwaves among humanitarian and development organisations who face huge layoffs and funding freezes placing life-saving projects in jeopardy. So many aid workers find...
image shows Emmanuel in the radio sound booth speaking into the mic in front of him

13 February 2025

Radio Day 2025: Community Radio in South Sudan
Where satellite signal is rare and electricity unreliable,  for many communities in the global south, radio is the best means of communication for connection and staying informed about what...

06 February 2025

#StopFGM Youth Led Change
Today over 200 million girls and women worldwide are impacted by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) or cutting. FGM is the harmful practice of removing, cutting or injuring female genital...

02 December 2024

Let it GLOW
Mary Henry facilitates the GLOW Program in South Sudan – Girls Learn their Own Worth (GLOW). She graduated from the Jesuit Loyola Secondary School (LSS) in Wau following her...

01 December 2024

World AIDS Day: Save Lives this Christmas
Marked globally on December 1st – World AIDs Day is a day for advocacy and championing the rights of all people regardless of sex, sexual orientation or ethnicity. Since...
students of St Mary's Assumpta school in Adjumani wave at camera with teachers.

29 July 2024

New Latrines at St Mary’s Assumpta Girls Secondary School, Adjumani
Adjumani in Uganda is one of the poorest regions in the country home to largely displaced communities. St Mary’s Assumpta Girls Secondary School is a crucial support system for...
women receives food aid. the box has IJI and MASIR logos on it.

15 May 2024

International Day of Families 2024
Today marks International Family Day, a day to promote awareness of issues relating to families and to increase the knowledge of the socio-cultural and economic issues affecting families. Families...
Photo overlooking center of Kangemi slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

07 April 2024

World Health Day 2024: My Health, My Right
The theme of this year’s World Health Day is ‘my health, my right’ chosen by the UN World Health organisation (WHO) to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to...

22 March 2024

Together we can make sure this crisis cannot be forgotten
I’m in Renk, South Sudan, in what is known as the transit centre, an enclosed space that receives those fleeing violence in Sudan, a conflict that still rages on....

20 November 2023

Serving those furthest behind in South Sudan
As we get closer to Christmas, places like South Sudan lie heavy on my heart. As the youngest country in the world, getting its independence 12 years ago, it’s...
South Sudan Emergency Appeal

01 November 2023

Dreaming of home: Families flee Sudan
Christmas should be a time of peace and time spent with our loved ones. Of Christmas lights and markets and feeling cosy at home. Sadly, in other parts of...