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see these power poles here they had lights on them but everything's been ripped out of them and stolen to sell people really need money here so they'll do whatever it takes we had to land on mud Runway there destroyed planes and helicopters lining the sides of the runway this compound was actually hit by Rockets I've been told that there's quite a bit of crime around here mainly robbery and things like that this girl here is wearing rubber gloves for shoes big house that had bullet holes and the roof had been bombed we're actually below the waterline now and they're building d big mud piles on the sides of the flood waters to stop it coming in the oneing here they are protecting
in case of any criminality how many people live in this room 10 people 10 people but this toilet facility here can account for up to 50 to 100 people how does the sewage work there's no sewage see this dke here sometimes people come and try to break it let the flooding into flood people's homes are there days where you're unable to buy food on the market sometime he's not able to sell any one of them and then from there day he can live without food nice to meet you so we're here with the lady Yan Nas here she was in a car crash you can see they've used wood here and fabric to wrap it up two brakes this used to be a road you can see the power lines would you like one day to go to America you can see they're platting the fish
there's actually venomous snakes in these Waters this lady was bitten by a snake now she has to go to the hospital South Sudan the world's newest country only gaining independence in 2011 and after gaining that Independence plummeted into Civil War South Sudan's Civil War ethnic based violence 400,000 died 4 million were displaced that Civil War has now led to the near collapse of the country although fighting has died down in some areas of the country it continues to rage on in others hunger and malnutrition R throughout the country South Sudan is the world's most dangerous country for an aid worker South Sudan is the most violent place in the world for Aid workers with humanitarians constantly being targeted tribal violence occurs every single day
flooding has absolutely ravaged the country the people who live here have never experienced anything like this my house is still underwater vast areas lie underwater I've wanted to go to South Sudan for a long time this trip has been 2 years in the making the world's youngest country is tearing itself apart Civil War has torn the world's youngest country apart I can live and die here like rapid descent into Civil War has broken but there isn't much the or Allies can do your name my name d the near collapse of the country nice to meet you fighting each other this is where it gets very dangerous how are you're good hello and welcome to ventu in North South Sudan that flight that you just saw one of the most crazy flights of my
life there was lightning bolts right next to the plane could see the lightning bolts just outside the window there was huge turbulence and then we had to land on mud runways we made three stops on the way from Juba to here which normally should be about an hour or so flight but took 3 hours we had to stop in these random airports we were sinking in to the mud on landing and takeoff the pilot was even saying himself he didn't like it there's destroyed planes and helicopters lining the sides of the runway these are actually shipping containers here and this is where I'm going to be staying while I'm here in the north this base has guards all around it you can hear in the background there's a helicopter flying overhead
there's lots of military activity around here this compound was actually hit by Rockets a few years ago they went right into the containers sasu recently experienced the worst flooding it has in 60 years we're actually below the waterline now and they're building dikes big mud tiles on the sides of the flood waters to stop it coming into this compound and the rest of the camp majority of the people are living in makeshift camps that are actually protected because they're fearful of being killed what sadly has been tearing apart South Sudan for many years now has been tribal violence many of the people living here have fled where they live out in other regions they come here for fear of their own lives but even here
yesterday somebody was killed another thing that's out to get people here is malaria one of the security advisers that I've been working with in South Sudan came down with malaria was rushed to the hospital two other people here were taken down with malaria and so you can see this environment is absolutely hostile everything's really out to get you just this crash plane here that's a the engine sitting on the ground a crazy environment just so Barren so many humanitarian Vehicles so we're basically on protected Land by piles of dirt essentially this is just this Wasteland
kind of place just with huge camps from people fleeing violence it's not a nice environment this is actually manned by the garan milit flooding has just absolutely destroyed this place and everybody is living below the water lines because of the mud dkes that Engineers are making all over the place so everybody's constantly fighting this uphill battle of staying above water so we've come to Ben New Town Center here you can see that big house that had bullet holes and the roof had been bombed that's actually from the Civil War so back in 2014 this place was Rife with armed conflict fighting on these streets most of the buildings were destroyed we went past supermarkets that had been burnt down most of South Sudan
does not have paved roads that's why it takes so long to get anywhere there's only 2 to 300 kilm of paved roads in the entire country when it rains it turns to Mud so you're just stranded in random places this is Extreme living here okay so I've met a young man called Sala Salan yes my name Salan Sala and how old are you Sala I'm uh 19 yes young man yes right and how is life here life is good no problem it's good no problem yes last year we have a flood but now no problem where do you live in a camp no I'm living here in B town but most people live in camps right yes were you here during the crisis and the war yeah I was here what was that like but now it is alhamdulillah we get a pieace is it easy to find food and
things here or does some people have problem finding food some people have the problem but the problem will never be permanent it will be tempy okay you're very positive man yes so this is your shop yes this is my shop I'm working here do you get much business here yes I'm working here something like uh 3 years spent 3 years working here I get something like $100 it's $100 a month yes it's pretty good right yes this is American rappers 69ine yes American rapper yeah you like him yeah I like him I like to watch the videos on YouTube even okay do you watch a lot of YouTube yes and do people like to buy shirts with 69ine on them here 69ine DRS okay even uh Justin Bieber this brown I used to listen to you like Justin Bieber
yes okay man nice so you really like American culture yes I really like would you like one day to go to America I want to be but there's no process yes too hard yes thank you for your time Sala have a good one cheers okay so we're here with David and you're uh showing me around B you right yes yeah and so have you lived in bentu your entire life yes so you've seen fighting and War and everything yes and what's life like now here in bentu uh the life in benu now is not as it used to be before okay because of flooding and also because of Reon conflict so it's hotter now yes it is hot now because we cannot access the root that can supply bent you okay the food crisis you're going to have to help me with the pronunciation of your
name again uh your name we are surrounded by water are not easy with us here in term of business our business is not going well because all the root that connected V and uh that supplied B are not cut off by the water basically you're cut off from the rest of the world here everything that is we are selling here comes through air and it's very expensive thank you very much okay so we've come along this long road here and it just ends up at this you know reinforced with sandbags d here and this is more of what we're seeing this is surrounding the town but you can see this used to be a road you can see the power lines the floodings just completely engulf this whole area people
are walking through these flood waters sometimes for days at a time to collect wood that they'll bring and make into charcoal and they'll sell it that's how people make money here you can see a lot of the buildings flooded over there in the distance and a lot of the buildings we went past they were actually fled during the war my guide here David he had to abandon his house during the war he's never been able to return since so thousands of houses were burnt down and completely destroyed and now it just looks like flat grass so there's actually venomous snakes in these Waters and sometimes they bite people and it can be very dangerous so this lady was bitten by a snake one
month ago she's carried on working in the water and now it's become increasingly infected now she has to go to the hospital which is in this town even though she's come from across the water in another flooded Village so you can just see the amount of hardship in this area is I there's nothing I can really say so people will collect piles of wood here and they'll walk out you can make out in the distance people walking miles and miles out through the flood waters to just find wood and bring it back try and sell it so you can see there's a man walking through the water here looking for fish nice to meet you your name William oh nice to meet you I'm nick name H Nick yeah hey you're from bentu B
okay so one of these piles they can get approximately 1,500 south Sudanese pound can take multiple hours to pick this up and they'll come to the shores here and sell it and then we're going to go and see where they burn it and make it into charcoal so here's the charcoal here and they bag it up this will sell for 5,000 sanes pound is business good is it enough to survive if he managed to sell two this where you can be able to buy 1 kg of surum or M and if the pry also went high he need also to sell more than that are there days where you're unable to buy food depend on the market sometime he's not able to sell any one of them and then from that day he can live without the food it's highly dependent on the
business if you can eat dinner every day yeah depend on the market and the business also sh yeah thank you sir thank you so this is some fish that they've caught and the flood waters there then they'll hang it up here wait for it to dry and then they plat it you can see they're platting the fish and then they'll sell it the one living here protecting the community so they sleeping here yeah they sleeping here and what are they protecting from they are protecting in case of any criminality or whatever they can be able to see and go and rescue so we've arrived at the PO Camp p means protection of citizens and you can see the flood waters you see this dke here sometimes people come and try to break
it let the flooding into flood people's homes destroy people's homes so these guys keep an eye make sure nobody does that also any possible Intruders because majority of these people that live here are fleeing from Untold insane violence from other regions not too far from here is armed fighting regularly so you can just See For Miles houses and Shacks 120,000 people in this Camp specifically but there's many camps like this the majority of people that live in this city live in camps similar to this
so you can see the stagnant water here obviously that's a great area for mosquitoes to breed this causes a lot of diseases this is where people shower here then the water go straight out the back there but there's no shower right you just take a bucket and pour over yourself so this toilet facility here can account for up to 50 to 100 people you see these scattered around the camp but just complete lack of facilities for these people David how does the sewage work there's no sewage when it is full they just close it and then they uh dig another one oh so they just bury it's right next to this water so the sewage will run off into this water right yeah this one is for only shower
and then the water from uh this one and then can get into the drainage yeah so this is what happens when the toilets fill up they put tape around it you're not allowed to use it cuz it's completely filled with sewage uh then they'll bury it and then they'll move the frame and dig new holes so they're just constantly moving the toilets here I've been told that there's quite a bit of crime around here mainly robbery and things like that you can see this girl here is wearing rubber gloves for shoes just going to go in this house here behind the kids you can see as soon as the camera cuts out the kids want to be right up P pretty funny you like that hello how many people live in this room David 10 people so we're
here with the lady Yan she was trying to flee this area to go to Northern Sudan and she was in a car crash she went to the hospital to get it treated you can see they've used wood here and fabric to wrap it up I can see the bone through the leg this one has a two broken two braks and this one is one oh so femur tibular and fibia I wish you good luck thank you their vill was burned during the conflict and did they lose any family members yes yeah people lost their life when they were coming and I've noticed it's mainly women and children here are there men during the conflict many men joined
the army others were kill a lot of these women's husbands are fighting right now yeah some of them are in fighting others also choose to go and walk outside they suffering a lot others lost their husband and they have nowhere to go to take their children so they are here just only to survive here's a homemade football here so it's just PL stuffed with fabric and plastic and then they kick it around and have a good time right ready your name my name is mat Matthew yes nice to meet you I'm Nick Manchester United yeah so you can see these power poles here they had lights on them but everything's been ripped out of them and stolen to sell people really need money here so they'll do whatever it takes so this boat here goes and picks
up Goods that can come as far as Juba and they bring the goods to the camp here and the entrance you can see to the camp but the Dyke is again stopping all this water what kind of goods are they bringing here David food mainly yeah mainly put yes okay David there was a murder yesterday right yes you knew who the guy was yes we heard about it yesterday is that common yes normally common here and how does that make you feel uh it's not easy because uh as uhan workers and you are there to support the community unfortunately you can be targeted that is not easy and also ending the support that we are giv South Sudan's actually the most dangerous place in the world to work as an aid
worker humanitarians are often targeted all these guys will go as far as they can on the boat so they can get to the places where the foods and things come from so not only are these people running from violence and then often they're targeted and they're too scared to even leave the camp cuz they're scared of being attacked they also are starving and they're cut off from the rest of the country so the supplies struggle to make it here it's an absolute horrible night nightmare situation for these people to be in so here is the charcoal here that we saw earlier so it'll come in here and this is how it's sold as well in these smaller bags and the guy who's selling it just said this is how we survive 200 South sudin pounds for one
bag having a look at another house here there's a child on the floor here what's wrong with him he's sick and he's not talking he's sick yeah and so he just lies on the floor he just lie on the floor like this he's disabled cannot walk also so he doesn't move from this position move from place to place he doesn't move is it a girl or a boy no she's a girl how old 9 years old yeah and has it been like this the entire life six years on this situation so what is your plan for the child here there's no way of taking him her to treatment because there's no money whatever she came here during the 2013 conflict she's not able to go back to she's not yeah ever very difficult for them to go back what kind of things are happening in where she comes
from her belonging were burned and everything was looted and Minal also were killed during the conflict sh thank you thank you we were walking along and that's just the second house by chance that we've chosen to visit both the houses the first house we went into there was a woman you saw with three broken bones in her leg it was infected and then the second house that you see we just come into there was a 9-year-old girl on the floor who is disabled and they can't afford to do anything with her so she's just literally laying in the dirt with flies all over her and saws and cuts everywhere so if that's two houses we've chosen we've seen two stories like that in this particular
Camp 120,000 then you imagine the scale of the suffering here and that's just one area of South Sudan this kind of suffering has spread all throughout the country you can't comprehend the scale they got solar here so this is the church here and they're running solar to this huge battery here and then they're playing the key board they go to music and the kids are dancing these kids and these families have been through so much trauma the church and dancing and singing and things it's really positive for them right it helps them release some of the negative energy yes of course we've come to this local nutrition site here we're going to meet a young mother called Regina and her
beautiful baby unfortunately her child is severely malnourished to put it simply they put a sort of measuring tape around the arm of the child and there's varying degrees of malnourishment if you're in the green on the band the baby's okay if you're in the yellow then it's a bit more dangerous but if you're in the red then it's severely malnourished and unfortunately Regina's child is severely malnourished so let's go meet Regina and ab your baby is sadly severely malnourished what kind of feelings does that bring up when you see your child as very she's not comfortable when the child is not is not feeling well without these aref what would happen the child can suffer a lot child can suffer a lot this one is
very important because there is a ingredient inside this food and when it give to the child can improve easily how long have you lived in the camp for 20148 years and why did you come here fighting yes his uncle was killed Yeah by gun by gun yes when that incident happen she has nothing to say just to come and settle here to begin a new life because everything was left behind property were looted they come and settle here when they were there they depend on what they were doing by their own but when they came to this ID they depend entirely on humanitarian support right so in their old house they looked after themselves but here as they were ripped out of their environment against their world and they had to be reliant on
UNICEF to supply this rutf yeah and the food and the shelter and everything yes shelter PO is scholing do you have a message that you want to share about what's happening in South Sudan at the moment they have really been staying here for long and they suffered a lot if there is a peace we can get out of this place but we are suffering Shan thank you very much Regina and her family were living a normal life and then violence erupted they had to flee and they were destined to uh well a life at least for the foreseeable future in this camp and um you know they used toit look after themselves entirely and now they that's not possible and they're completely reliant on the help of Unicef supplying them with the rutf I'm
going to leave a link below if you would like to donate and help save lives like his beautiful baby there these children are in dire need and without UNICEF supplying them this Lifeline doesn't really bear thinking about what would happen I mean you've seen inside the houses you know what happens to people who slipped through the cracks here and get forgotten doesn't end well so just $10 will'll buy 30 of those packs can have a huge impact you can see the baby just chewing away on that food and it's going to bring back to life I've talked to doctors and I've talked to mothers who have seen these rutf ready to use th apeutic food which is basically it's a food and a medicine combined designed to
bring a child from Death door back to being a young thriving healthy baby again so you know just with $10 the impact that uh you know we can make together you watching this at home it would be beautiful you know many of us will spend that on a coffee and a sandwich if you are able you know obviously if you don't have the means but if you have the means and you want to help out just know that your dollar can save lives here so we've made it back to the compound and I want to show you my accommodation really interesting so these are all containers like I mentioned earlier and uh here we are inside the container we've got the mosquito net which is
absolutely a necessity more people we talked to today said that malaria is R here's the bathroom here has everything you need basically a military existence here seems like everything's out to get you in this place you know out of 120,000 houses that the two we went into had immeasurable suffering happening inside of them and I'm not being paid at all to promote the work here and fundraise for this life-changing work it's just something that I personally believe is very important it needs a light shining on it because this place is completely forgotten South Sudan's a relatively known country even the capital city you imagine you get out to these kind of remote areas there's nothing here you know there's just
suffering really it's sad to put it that way but it's a lot of suffering and you've heard it firsthand from the people vast majority of people are sifting through dirt and looking for anything that they can to make a dollar any Aid that we can give them so yeah $10 buys 30 of these I'll see you in the next video from more from South Sudan this country is like nothing I've ever seen it's a very unique place that's for sure and it's quite undocumented I appreciate you watching in case I don't see you good afternoon good evening and good night
