Report on the Advocacy Mission to assess the situation of children in South Sudan
that children are being targeted deliberately.
Killing of parent and care-givers
9. The killings have left uncounted numbers of children parentless,
orphans and having to take to the streets. There are many
children in the Country separated from their loved ones and are
now living in camps without their parents or primary caregivers,
which make them more vulnerable to abuse and psychosocial
challenges. For instance, in the Tomping Camp2 the delegation
was informed that some children were traumatized and need
psychosocial support as they have observed their parents being
killed. This resulted in child-headed households to proliferate. The
crisis has swept child protection and humanitarian agencies into a
time consuming, expensive and interminable cycle of FTR (family
tracking and reunification), which has to date yielded limited results·
Displacement
10. Huge displacement of peoples, including children with or without
2 Immediately after the conflict in December 2013, it was reported that 25,000
IDPs were residing in Tomping PoC Site. Currently, more than 14,000 IDPs
reside in the compound. The delegation witnessed various challenges in the
Site including lack of sufficient child friendly space, lack of schools, health
and sanitation challenges including cholera outbreak.
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