Sanitation Solutions Youth Initiative Organization

13/08/2026

From reducing plastic waste to recycling and keeping our communities clean, every responsible action counts.

What may seem like a small habit today can become part of a bigger movement for a cleaner and healthier tomorrow.

So, what sustainable habit have you adopted recently? 🌱👇🏽

Share yours in the comments and inspire someone else to make a difference.

Nature’s Care is our Care.

12/08/2026

🌱 A CLEANER SOUTH SUDAN STARTS WITH WHAT WE DO WITH OUR WASTE.

Join us and let’s turn plastic waste into value. Instead of throwing plastic away, collect it and give it a purpose.

When you have gathered enough, call SSYIO we can pick it up, or you can bring it to our location.

Together, let’s build communities where waste becomes a resource, pollution becomes opportunity, and every small action creates a cleaner South Sudan. 🇸🇸♻️

Nature’s Care is our Care.

12/08/2026

Marol Market: Another Reflection of Bor’s Sanitation Challenge

Recently, we shared the sanitation crisis affecting Lew-Dier Market, drawing attention to the growing waste-management challenges in Bor Town. Today, the same issue appears to be a pattern across our markets.

These images from Marol Market tell a similar story plastic waste scattered across the market, stagnant and polluted water, blocked drainage channels, and poor sanitation around areas where traders sell food and serve the community.

This is no longer an isolated problem. It is a growing sanitation challenge that requires collective action.

Through SSYIO, we believe the solution must go beyond cleaning. It requires awareness, proper waste collection, recycling, and innovation including transforming plastic waste into eco-friendly bricks, pavers and interlocks.

Marol Market is another reminder that Bor needs a sustainable waste-management system and SSYIO is ready to be part of building it.

📸: Wetchol Junior

10/08/2026

Bor once stood among the cleanest towns in South Sudan.

But years of neglect from citizens themselves to local leadership and government authorities have allowed poor sanitation to become increasingly visible across the town.

Plastic bottles and plastic bags, which make up a significant portion of the waste, have particularly overwhelmed public spaces and markets such as Lew-Dier and Marol.

This is where the Sanitation Solutions Youth Initiative Organization (SSYIO) comes in. Our role is not only to raise awareness and encourage responsible waste management, but also to promote practical innovation that turns waste into opportunity.

We are already working toward transforming plastic waste into eco-friendly building materials, including bricks, pavers, and interlocking blocks giving discarded plastic a useful second life while contributing to a cleaner environment.

Bor can be clean again. But achieving that requires awareness, innovation, collective responsibility, and action.

10/08/2026

Recent images from Lew-Dier Fish Market in Bor went viral, drawing public attention to the poor sanitation conditions surrounding one of South Sudan’s important fish markets.

Lew-Dier is more than a marketplace. It supports livelihoods, serves communities, and connects South Sudan’s fish trade to markets beyond its borders.

But behind the trade is a sanitation problem that can no longer be overlooked.

This video takes a closer look at the reality on the ground and why Lew-Dier deserves better.

Voice-over: Wetchol Junior

09/08/2026

Read below our Full interview on Poor waste management that was conducted on RADIO JONGLEI 95.9 FM

Good morning, Journalist Deng Panchol, the team at Radio Jonglei 89.9 FM, and all our listeners across South Sudan.

My name is Wetchol Junior, also known as Chol Kuer Chol, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Sanitation Solutions Youth Initiative Organization, SSYIO.

SSYIO is a youth-led organization committed to addressing plastic pollution and poor waste management through environmental action, recycling innovation, and sustainable solutions.

Our vision is to contribute to a cleaner, greener, and more sustainable South Sudan by transforming plastic waste into useful and environmentally friendly products, including Sudd-Eco Friendly Bricks, Pavers, Interlocks, Tiles, Ceiling Boards, and other construction materials.

Our message is simple, “Waste is not waste until we waste it.”

Plastic pollution is one of the environmental challenges affecting our communities today. We see plastic waste on streets, in markets, drainage systems, and around our neighborhoods.

For instance the Fish Market at Lew-Dier is badly affected by plastic bottles as seen from some of the photos and videos shared on our page.

But at SSYIO, we do not only see waste.

We see a resource.

Instead of allowing plastic to pollute our environment, we believe it can be collected, recycled, and transformed into products that create economic value.

This can help reduce pollution, create employment opportunities, support local industries, encourage innovation, and contribute to affordable construction solutions.

SAY NO TO WASAKA

Our campaign, “SAY NO TO WASAKA,” is a national call for citizens to reject littering and embrace responsible waste management and recycling.

We want to see a culture where people understand that keeping our communities clean is not only the responsibility of government or municipalities.

It is a shared responsibility.

We are therefore calling for stronger collaboration between municipal authorities, government institutions, development partners, investors, private-sector actors, communities, and young people.

We also believe that local authorities can explore practical approaches to discouraging littering while encouraging community participation in clean-up activities and plastic collection. Such measures should be developed collaboratively with communities, implemented fairly, and remain within the law.

The objective should not simply be to punish people.

The objective should be to change behavior, recover waste, and create a cleaner environment.

At SSYIO, we are ready to work with government, development partners, investors, international organizations, and the private sector to scale recycling and environmental innovation across South Sudan.

We believe that if we build the right systems around waste collection, recycling, and local manufacturing, we can turn an environmental problem into an economic opportunity.

A clean environment is not only good for nature.

It is an investment in public health, economic development, employment, and the future of our country.

I would like to thank Radio Jonglei 89.9 FM for giving SSYIO this opportunity to share our vision with the people of South Sudan.

To the youth of South Sudan:

Do not wait for opportunities to come to you.

Create them.

Protect your environment. Develop innovative ideas. Work together. Build solutions.

Young people are not only the leaders of tomorrow.

We are solution providers today.

To the Government:

Investing in environmental innovation is investing in the future of South Sudan.

By supporting youth-led initiatives, strengthening waste-management systems, encouraging recycling, and promoting public-private partnerships, we can create employment, improve public health, protect our environment, and strengthen our economy.

To development partners and investors:

South Sudan has enormous untapped potential.

By investing in local innovation and youth-led environmental solutions, you are not simply supporting a project. You are investing in sustainable communities, employment, innovation, and national development.

And I leave everyone with this message:

“A clean nation is a healthy nation. Every plastic bottle collected today is an investment in a better South Sudan tomorrow.”

Together, let us say:

NO TO WASAKA.
YES TO RECYCLING.
YES TO INNOVATION.
YES TO A CLEANER AND MORE SUSTAINABLE SOUTH SUDAN.

Thank you, and may God bless South Sudan. 🇸🇸♻️

08/08/2026

A few days ago, Sanitation Solutions Youth Initiative Organization (SSYIO) visited Lew-dier Fish Market in Bor Town, Jonglei State, where we documented environmental and sanitation challenges affecting the market and its surroundings.

The photos below show a significant accumulation of plastic bottles and other waste alongside an area where dried fish products are displayed for sale.

This is more than an environmental concern. Sanitation, public health, environmental protection, and economic activity are closely connected.

SSYIO believes these challenges require collective action and practical solutions.

Working together with the Bor Municipality Council, Jonglei State Government, local communities, market authorities, and development partners such as UNDP, UNMISS, NRC and UNICEF.

SSYIO believes that these challenges can be addressed through proper waste collection and disposal, recycling and separation of waste, youth-led environmental activities, community sanitation awareness, and stronger sanitation practices in public markets. Through these efforts, we aim to promote cleaner communities and encourage practical recycling solutions across Jonglei State and South Sudan.

We are not only here to expose the problem; SSYIO is coming with the solutions. From Bor Town to South Sudan, let us say no to Wasaka and yes to recycling innovation.

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06/08/2026

05/08/2026

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