South Sudan at Heart

  A Tale of Cruelty and the Urgent Need for Change By: Abraham Daljang Maker Renk, a small town nestled on the banks of the Nile River in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, is where you would never wish to be a donkey if at all one chooses what you should be. Curelity treatment of donkeys is everywhere despite the town's seemingly peaceful façade. Here, donkeys, once considered noble and hardworking creatures, endure unimaginable suffering and cruelty. In a place where empathy seems to have faltered, their existence has become synonymous with pain and neglect. Every day at the break of dawn, the streets of Renk come alive with the sound of hooves pounding against the muddy ground. These donkeys, their spirits broken and bodies burdened, carry heavy water carts to fulfil the basic needs of the town's inhabitants, who heavily rely on buying water from the river Nile where Donkeys are used to fetch water. It is in this task that their agony unfolds as they face relentless b