Highlights:
· More than one million people – 20 percent of them children under the age of 5 – have now received life-saving assistance from UNICEF, WFP and their partners in South Sudan through 82 joint emergency missions to communities hardest-hit by conflict. As the long rainy season begins, UNICEF and WFP will continue to reach remote communities. The agencies are also working to establish or reopen, wherever possible, permanent humanitarian services to communities who are without access to food, healthcare, nutrition, education and clean water.
· During the reporting period, UNICEF and partners rehabilitated five boreholes in Aweil North and Aweil East (Northern Bahr el Ghazal); four in Koch County and Bentiu town (Unity); eleven in Wau town (Western Bahr el Ghazal); and six in Yambio County (Western Equatoria). Thirteen new boreholes were drilled in Yirol County (Lakes State) and 5 in Kapoeta East County (Eastern Equatoria). These boreholes will provide safe water for 22,500 people.
· Family separation has affected over 36,000 South Sudanese children in South Sudan and neighbouring countries. Of these, 12,471 children have been identified within South Sudan of whom 3,928 have been reunited with their families. If new funding is not identified by June 2016, most new reunifications will not be possible and children will need to remain in their alternative care placements.