ALDO's livelihoods and food-security work is the foundation of everything else the organization does. In a country where more than seven million people face acute food insecurity, and where floods and conflict have stripped families of the means to feed themselves, restoring the ability to grow, store, and sell food is the difference between dependence and dignity.
Working directly with communities through its own trained mobilizers, ALDO supports collective land preparation and cultivation, facilitates the distribution of quality seed and tools, and helps households establish communal vegetable gardens that lift both nutrition and income. More than 500 households across three counties have taken part, and roughly 80 percent of those reached are women, the people who carry the heaviest burden of feeding South Sudan's families.
The approach is deliberately owned by the community. ALDO's mobilizers live and work alongside residents, so households themselves set priorities, organize the work, and manage shared resources. That ownership is what makes the gains last after any single project ends.
