We exist to bring

Service to humanity, in the place where we live.

A maternal and child hospital, a college of nursing and midwifery, and ten primary schools across the Diocese of Wau — since 2000.

Wau, South Sudan

Why we exist

Meeting people in their present need — and preparing them for a better tomorrow.

Mary Help Association is a faith-based organisation of the Catholic Diocese of Wau, founded in 2000. We provide humanitarian and developmental services to people in need, irrespective of race, religion, ideology or political affiliation.

35,000+

Children fed daily, across five states

480+

Cleft lip & palate surgeries to date

2,400+

Farming families supported each year

Figures current as of [Month Year].

Our ecosystem of hope

Connected. Compassionate. Committed.

Healthcare

Mary Help Hospital

Nursing

College of Nursing & Midwifery

Education

Primary Schools

Education

Secondary School

Boarding

Student Hostels

Nutrition

School Feeding Programme

in partnership with Mary’s Meals

Agriculture & Food Security

2,400 families each hunger gap

Emergency & Relief

5,600 displaced households

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Boreholes and protected sources

Peace-Building

Dialogue and reconciliation

The need

The need we were built to answer

Too few trained health workers

South Sudan has one of the world’s most severe shortages of nurses and midwives, and mothers in rural areas often deliver with no trained help at all.

Our answer: a College of Nursing & Midwifery, opened 2007.

The hunger gap between harvests

Each year families run out of stored food before the next harvest is ready. Children are pulled out of school, and the youngest show it first.

Our answer: seeds, tools and training for 2,400 families a year, and a daily meal for 35,000 children.

Care too far to reach

Jur River County had no health facility. For a woman in labour or a sick child, the nearest care was a journey most families could not make in time.

Our answer: a maternal and child hospital 10km north of Wau.

10

Primary schools

~300

Outpatients daily

5,600

IDP households reached

2007

Nursing college founded

See the work

A day at Mary Help Hospital

Numbers on a page only go so far. This is what care actually looks like in Jur River County — the ward, the surgical camp, and the families who travel to reach it.

Where we work

Wau, and outward from it

Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal
Our base, within the Catholic Diocese of Wau.

Jur River County
Mary Help Hospital, 10km north of Wau town.

Five states
Our school feeding programme reaches 35,000 children daily.

Stories of real change

Real people. Real stories. Real impact.

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Our partners

Caritas Germany · Mary’s Meals International · DORCAS International · CORDAID · Kindermissionswerk · German Embassy

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Your gift reaches South Sudan directly

Every gift is receipted. Read how funds are used in our annual reports.

$25

Feeds a child, one term

$50

Seeds and tools, one family

$100

A family through the hunger gap

$250

One cleft surgery [confirm cost]