SMARD_ORGANIZATIOn

16/01/2025

For God has chosen us to serve His People.

This morning SMARD received an art photo gift, portraying trauma aware and resiliency family.

This impactful gift is not only showing our footprint in serving our communities but also encouraging us and increasing our passion for our work.

We are thankful to God, the provider and the people that God has used to support SMARD_ORGANIZATIOn more especially the UNDP South Sudan's PaCC project in Wau County, western Bahr El Ghazal State.

27/11/2024

We are pleased to join our partners (especially in Protection Cluster) in the launch of this Year’s commemoration of 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Based Violence in Wau, Western Bahr El Ghazal State.
This years’ theme is to End Violence Against Women and Girls in South Sudan.

With support from the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), SMARD will undertake a series of advocacy campaigns in support of the national theme, with specific focus on ‘Reducing teenage pregnancies’ beyond the launch through December 10th.

Through our Community Advocacy Team (CAT), we will continue to reach out to the youth in the different locations in Wau County through community engagement and radio talk shows.
We are grateful to the Embassy of Canada to South Sudan for the support.

26/11/2024

Western Bahr El Ghazal state, like other states of South Sudan has experienced violence conflict since 2012 when the government decided to relocate Wau County headquarter to Bagari Payam. The war was catalyzed by the power struggle within the ruling party(SPLM) in 2013.
These wars and conflict left the people of Wau in distress and potential traumatic experiences.
For this reasons, solidarity Ministries Africa for Reconciliation and Development (SMARD) in Partnership with UNDP-funded Peace and Community Cohesion (PaCC) III project, supported psychosocial support activity that aims to provide psychosocial and mental health services to the displaced persons, returnees, refugees and host community in Western Bahr El Ghazal.

As part of implementation strategies, SMARD held a 1-day inclusive consultative workshop with local leaders, chiefs, women, youth, CSOs, FBOs and IDPs on 22nd November, 2024 at ATM Hotel, Wau, South Sudan .

The purpose for the consultation is to inclusively identify and form 30 Psychosocial Community Volunteers (PCVs) in Wau County (Bagari Jedid, Bazia Jedid, Baselia, Wau North, Wau South Payams and The camps.)
The local leaders successfully identified 30 individuals after attentively listened to the presentation on to the selection process/criteria/requirements/qualifications and formed them into Psychosocial Community Volunteers (PCVs) team in Wau.

These PCVs will undergo 5-day Trauma awareness and psychosocial support training and thereafter, will be commissioned to deliver counseling sessions, facilitate trauma awareness and psychosocial first aid trainings in the communities and refer cases to other services providers.

28/10/2024

SMARD_ORGANIZATIOn is thankful for being reconsidered by the Embassy of Canada to South Sudan to implement the local initiatives which has and still impacting the lives of grassroot communities. We believe that the support given to us will positively contribute to the transformational development of South Sudanese society.

Congratulations to our latest group of Canada Fund for Local Initiatives partners! We look forward to working with you and seeing how your projects make a difference in your communities. 🇨🇦 🇸🇸 # .

South Sudan Human Rights Defenders Network, SMARD_ORGANIZATIOn, INTREPID-South Sudan,