I have only a few weeks left on my mission in Bentiu. Numbers in our nutrition programme have decreased over the last few months, which is a good thing.
Kaderia* doesn’t know how old she is. As she tells me her story I try to guess her age, she looks about fifty but perhaps her difficult life has made her age quicker.
As seems to be the norm here in South Sudan there were a lot of different predictions going around about what the 9th of July, South Sudan’s first birthday would bring.
The clinic is getting busier all the time. Now we have fifty children in the inpatient centre and numbers in our ambulatory and mobile clinics continue to rise.