MSF’s group psychosocial sessions in the camps included activities such as bracelet-making, drawing, singing and dancing. The team also encouraged people to maintain the social bonds many of them had already formed, such as playing soccer or talking to friends over coffee or tea sessions.
When people’s movement is restricted within densely populated displacement camps, psychosocial activities become a lifeline, providing a means to relieve stress and grief and help people collectively address trauma.
People in conflict-torn South Sudan continue to live with the catastrophic, wide-ranging consequences of violence, ranging from death and life-affecting injuries to post-traumatic stress disorder and loss of livelihoods, infrastructure and health care systems, to displacement from home and having to leave everything behind.
Between January and July 2022, MSF conducted more than 11,500 individual and group mental health consultations in seven projects located in different parts of the country.