USAID MOMENTUM
MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience South Sudan
Sarah Wala, 26-years-old, during a consultation on family planning on the 7th of June 2021, in Gurei PHCC supported by MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience, near Juba, South Sudan.
Sarah is living with a physical disability since a traffic accident when she was young. She had two children from different fathers, that wouldn't want to marry her because of her disability.
When she came to receive counseling and family planning methods, she felt stronger. "When I explain these things to people around me, some try to discourage me," she says. "They think if I give birth the child will have disabilities, but me, it has not affected me!" She now sells a local food called Tamia to earn a living and has more time to take good care of her daughters.
"Even with the implant, I still protect myself from HIV, but I feel good knowing i cannot fall pregnant, I feel free of everything. i can decide my own things. Now I can give better to my children, when one is sick, or need money for school. I did not go to school but always talk to my children so they can get educated. I say: look at me. You don't want to go through what I went through. Take care of yourself, protect yourself."
Photo credit: Adrienne Surprenant/IMA World Health
MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience South Sudan
Sarah Wala, 26-years-old, during a consultation on family planning on the 7th of June 2021, in Gurei PHCC supported by MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience, near Juba, South Sudan.
Sarah is living with a physical disability since a traffic accident when she was young. She had two children from different fathers, that wouldn't want to marry her because of her disability.
When she came to receive counseling and family planning methods, she felt stronger. "When I explain these things to people around me, some try to discourage me," she says. "They think if I give birth the child will have disabilities, but me, it has not affected me!" She now sells a local food called Tamia to earn a living and has more time to take good care of her daughters.
"Even with the implant, I still protect myself from HIV, but I feel good knowing i cannot fall pregnant, I feel free of everything. i can decide my own things. Now I can give better to my children, when one is sick, or need money for school. I did not go to school but always talk to my children so they can get educated. I say: look at me. You don't want to go through what I went through. Take care of yourself, protect yourself."
Photo credit: Adrienne Surprenant/IMA World Health