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Active Women Arise Africa (AWA-AFRICA) walks alongside women, children, and youth in South Sudan’s most conflict-affected and hard-to-reach communities, combining protection, education, livelihoods, and peacebuilding into one continuous, locally-led model.

What We Do
In South Sudan’s hardest-hit counties, Unity, Upper Nile, Jonglei, and the Equatorias, more than a decade of conflict and displacement has left women and children without reliable access to protection, healthcare, education, or livelihoods. Gender-based violence, early marriage, and economic exclusion fall hardest on women and girls, and the services that should reach them remain thin on the ground.

We believe dignity, protection, and opportunity shouldn’t depend on how remote a community is. That’s why we built a model around four connected pillars, delivered together rather than as four separate programmes:

Protect · Learn · Earn · Unite

Our Model

Our Impact

10,000+

people reached with health and education services since 2019

800+

women and girls supported through GBV prevention and response

200+

women trained in vocational and technical skills, tailoring, soap-making, baking, and small-scale entrepreneurship


Multiple Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) formed and mobilised


Life-saving supplies, shelter materials, and protection services delivered across four major humanitarian emergencies in Upper Nile and Jonglei

Our Programs

Protect

GBV prevention, protection, and survivor-centred response.
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Learn

Getting and keeping children, especially girls, in school.
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Earn

Building pathways to income and economic independence for women.
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Unite

Restoring peace, social cohesion, and climate resilience.
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About Us

AWA-AFRICA was founded in 2019 by South Sudanese women, youth, and community leaders, after carrying out their own assessment of what conflict-affected communities actually needed. We hold both emergency response and long-term development in one model, support doesn’t stop once the immediate crisis passes.

Our Founder

“We were forged directly inside the crisis rather than stepping in afterward.”
Martha Nyakueka Reath, Founder and Executive Director

Our Story

Our Partners

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    We work with the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, local government authorities, traditional and religious leaders, and the network of youth, women’s groups, and community volunteers who sustain our field presence. We are actively building deeper partnerships with UN agencies, international NGOs, legal advocates for widows’ rights, and corporate CSR programmes as we scale.

    Whether you’re a donor, an institutional partner, or an organisation working alongside communities in South Sudan, there’s a concrete next step for you.
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