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. 8

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