What is the history of CHF in southern Sudan?
CHF has been in southern Sudan since 2005. We currently have three offices and are soon to open two more. Our staff of 60 people is comprised mainly of Sudanese; we only have nine expatriates and most of these are from other African countries. What are the special challenges of working in southern Sudan? After decades of civil war, southern Sudan has virtually no infrastructure in place. It is a large geographical area with poor quality roads, especially during the rainy season when all the dust turns to mud. It is not uncommon for landmines, remnants of the war, to move during the rainy season: you occasionally find a road freshly blocked after a landmine has sloshed through the mud to a new home. Southern Sudan has virtually no industry, literacy levels are low and there has been very little return to agriculture since the war. All goods and skilled labor have to be imported from Kenya, Uganda, northern Sudan or another country – and this, in turn, means there are high transport cost
