Women uses cash grants to open tea shop in South Sudan
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Nyamuoch Reath serves tea to her customers in her small tea shop in Akobo, South Sudan.
Displaced by fighting from her home in Malakal, she lived for a while in a protected area of the United Nations base there. After her husband was killed in the conflict, she fled to Akobo where she had relatives. With two small cash grants, she bought what she needed to open her small tea shop in a bombed out building she rented from a local church. Her business has gone well, and besides having money for health care and her children's education, she has used her profits to purchase six goats. She hopes peace will prevail, as she says it's good for her business.
Reath received the cash grants from DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, which is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security at a time when the arrival of many newly displaced families increased competition in the community over scarce food resources. It carries out its programs in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization.
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- Paul Jeffrey
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- Life in Akobo