Nyirol County where this project was implemented has been affected by the conflict in the neighboring Counties. there has been massive displacement from the neighboring counties into Nyirol due to the fighting between the two warring parties and displacement within the county due cattle raiding from the neighboring Murle tribe. These have deteriorated the health conditions with communicable diseases such as Malaria, acute respiratory infection (ARI) and diarrhea causing significant morbidity and mortality among this population especially children under 5 years (Health Cluster February2017 report) with malaria accounting for 30% of consultations followed by ARI at 19% and diarrhea at 17% and malnutrition have already skyrocketed at 29.2% as indicated by the SMART Survey conducted by MEDAIR during the post-harvest period of Feb 2017.

Children Aid responded to this emergency with funding from South Sudan Humanitarian fund, the objective of the project was to Improve access and scale up responsiveness to essential health care by focusing on the major causes of mortality among U5C (malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia)