Dollar Rate Skyrocketing in Juba, South Sudan
By Steven Deng Wol
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I am a GoSS employee who cannot survive this madness. This is a galloping inflation that will surely bring our economy down if no rescue measures are quickly put in place.
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My salary cannot take me and my family ten days into the month, no matter how hard I try (no more milk for my 1 year old whose mother can no longer breastfeed, no more “unnecessary” going to the clinic for “just fever” which might not be Malaria, breakfast for kids only, etc ).
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I am now trying to get any job with a foreign NGO that can pay me any amount in dollar. Even $300 a month is now more than my salary which was about $800 a month.
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When I look to my neighbors who are really suffering, yet I cannot borrow them any amount for taking their seriously sick kid to the hospital lest my own fall sick in future and I surely fail to treat them.
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This situation has changed our culture of good neighborliness. War is very expensive and must be stopped NOW.
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We are dying yet the “big men” who do not want peace have access to the dollar for their kids abroad.
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