There are also children who are hyperactive and cannot stay still but are always creating trouble. You won’t realise this until you stay with them an… - Hellen Murshali

We are not getting assistance from the government and, in fact, some of the kids are brought here by the government because the facility they have always takes older children from 5 years of age and up, but we often get 10 newly born babies.

There are also good friends of the children who bring us food and non-food items, nappis, second-hand clothes and our good staff who are calm. When you see the children, you just have to take care of them because they are our children and South Sudanese children. “What the kids eat is what we eat.”

CCC was originally meant only for girls, touching issues surrounding young girls living on the streets, orphaned, unaccompanied, and those in dire need, but eventually, when statistics were carried out in the streets of Juba we realised that not only the girls but the boys were equally affected.