Like we don’t have enough problems.
While driving back into Juba (from Mundri), saw a cholera
treatment center - white tents,
health-workers in white overalls and gumboots, tanker trucks – I assume with
chlorinated water – (I’d spent the past few days talking to health-workers
about cholera- transmission, protection against, and management but I don’t
think it had really hit home until I got to Juba.)
Went out to dinner with some friends, and everyone around
the table was like, uhm, ya don’t bring any salads, actually anything uncooked…
Knowing Juba, and how swampy it is during the rainy season –
I live in Tony Piny, there’s standing water everywhere – and the overall lack
of clean drinking water, the really poor sanitation standards - one understands
how dire the situation can potentially get.
Like we don’t have enough problems.
There are also cholera cases in Jonglei State.
Add to that talk of half of the country’s population on the
brink of starvation. Half. And it really makes one wonder where we are headed.
Perhaps this is what defines a failed state. Some of us are
despairing of the state of affairs – months after all this has started, we seem
to lack direction, ideas of how to move forward, or anything that one could
grasp at.
