Ankur Desai

In the last two months, this has expanded to 30,000 people with this place taking refuge there.

And up the river, there's another 25,000 people in a nearby village.

And what we saw is a population really in very bad shape.

We met a mother called Nyawat, and she was eating leaves from the

tree under which she was sitting for sustenance.

She had a small baby in her lap, but as she was running away from her village, she had lost her five-year-old son, Garwish, because he had been abducted, and she just looked gaunt and

just completely devastated by losing her son.

We then went to another place called Weai, about an hour away by plane, and there everything had been looted.

The health center, the water point had been destroyed.

It's one of the 26 health centers that we know have been destroyed during this fighting.

So it's not just the civilians that are paying the price, it's the civilian infrastructure on which they depend that has also been destroyed.

destroyed.

Luckily, there's some very good actors on the ground that are responding, local NGOs, international NGOs, the UN agencies such as UNICEF, but much more is needed.

And particularly, I would imagine for children, the immediate disaster perhaps of fleeing one's home, but it's been quite hard historically to get kids into school in South Sudan in the best of times.

Now with so much displacement, I imagine many children will be missing out on an education.

The schools are closed.

I mean, in the country as a whole, even before this crisis, more children were out of school than in schools.

And this is further impacting their education.

None of the children displaced are in school.

In Jongle, we're doing some early kind of learning and play activities, but it's not a substitute for education.