Benjamin Lokoya, Education officer,  UNICEF South Sudan

My name is Benjamin Lokoya. I am the education officer for UNICEF.  I was in Leer last week and, when I went there, I found the situation was horrific.  I found people struggling to get food. There was no food. Women and children starving, people were surviving on water lilies. 

The women were telling me that they were worried about their children because there was nothing for them to feed the children on. They had no hope. They had malnourished children. They have sick children. Nobody was there to attend to the children.