Early in the morning in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan, a child wakes up, covering their head with a blanket. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.

Caritas South Sudan has been supporting the displaced, while at the same time officials of the diocese have participated in a mediation effort coordinated by the South Sudan Council of Churches, which includes the Roman Catholic Church.

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Boys roll bicycle wheels through a camp for for than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze

Eight-year old Adieu Anai cooks over a fire (photo: Caritas Internationalis).

A family shares a meal

Two-year old Jennifer Angel enjoys the last of her family's meal in a camp for for than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze

People waking up the morning

A woman dries cassava in a camp for for than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze

A peers through a hole in the gate around a church compound in the middle of a camp for for than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze