Friend - Meet Cecilia, an Oxfam emergency team leader in South Sudan. This week, for World Humanitarian Day, we're honoring the unsung heroes in crises around the world: Cecilia and the thousands of women humanitarians like her.

This is Cecilia's story, as written by her in May 2018:

"I've seen a lot in my job. As an emergency responder, I am usually close to the front line and the people who have fled from it.

I have seen people shot as they collect drinking water from a river and people giving every last drop of energy to save others. I saw the country start to climb to its feet after independence in 2011, and I've seen it torn apart by conflict since 2013. I've seen the best and worst of the people of South Sudan...

In this conflict, in which everything often seems out of the control of us ordinary citizens, it is a rare feeling to know that you can have large and positive impact. But I have that. I lead a big team of people with even bigger hearts wherever I go: water engineers, latrine builders, health promoters, teacher trainers and community protection specialists. Together, we help save lives and keep people going."

Friend - with your support, Oxfam and humanitarians like Cecilia are helping create lasting change. Read more about Oxfam's work across South Sudan and around the world. >>
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"We've just come back from two remote villages called Buong and Weichjol, where thousands of people arrived after fighting came to their towns last year. When our team arrived, the needs were huge.

There was no clean running water, so people were drinking and washing with swamp water. Diseases had spread and with few medical facilities in the town, things were quickly getting worse.

My team drilled new water points and repaired broken ones. We showed people how to treat and prevent eye infections that were by then endemic in the town - and which would cause blindness if untreated. We helped people pay for their loved ones to travel to a health clinic if their sickness was life-threatening. We trained teachers to make sure all those newly arrived children don't lose their education as well as their homes.

We made a difference... but there is always another emergency we must respond to.

Before we go though, I make sure the needs of the people in each place are heard and that the organizations that will continue our work know exactly what they must do. I see it as my duty to make sure they are not forgotten."

Friend - on World Humanitarian Day and every day, we celebrate the work of humanitarians like Cecilia. She and others like her work on crucial projects - like providing life-saving clean water in South Sudan - that promote the health and well-being of communities in more than 90 countries around the world. None of this would be possible without you.


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