(September 8, 2013) - The government of Jonglei State in collaboration with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission has distributed food rations sufficient for two days to flood affected people in Bor town.
Floods have displaced an estimated 70 families from their homes, they are sheltering in the town's Freedom Square as of Sunday.
The rations are an emergency response while the flood victims await intervention by other humanitarian partners, the Coordinator for Relief and Rehabilitation Commission in Bor County James Jok said.
"We are still in the process of assessing the needs of this IDPs and then we will send the report to the partners concerned but on our level as the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, Bor County, we have checked our stores and whatever we have in the stores we have given the IDPs now," Mr Jok said.
"We were only able to give cereals, two cartons of vegetable oil. This is just to sustain them for two days," he said.
"The actual humanitarian intervention will depend on the data collected."
The Chairperson of Jonglei State Flood Control Task Force, Gabriel Doup Lam has appealed to humanitarians organizations to intervene as soon as possible.