Behind every number is a life changed. In 2025, your support helped protect children, expand education, and strengthen communities across Sudan and South Sudan.

Aluet lost her mother at just four years old and grew up facing the harsh realities of poverty and instability in South Sudan. After finding safety and opportunity through Lift Up the Vulnerable, her future looked bright—until a deception by relatives nearly forced her into marriage. This powerful story shows how timely intervention, education, and community advocacy can protect girls from exploitation and give them the chance to finish school and shape their own future.

Child and forced marriage remain widespread global human rights violations, closely linked to poverty, conflict, and human trafficking. In regions like Sudan and South Sudan, economic instability and displacement increase the risk of early and coerced marriage. This blog explores the data, the overlap with trafficking, and how prevention-focused, community-led solutions are protecting vulnerable girls before exploitation occurs.

LUV Day is a reminder that love is something we do. Through Fill the Truck with LUV, we’re delivering food and essential supplies to children in Sudan and South Sudan — protecting them from hunger, exploitation, and instability before the rainy season cuts off access.

Agape love isn’t passive — it shows up. This Month of LUV, Lift Up the Vulnerable invites you to see how food, faith, and action come together to protect children in Sudan and South Sudan from hunger and harm.

In conflict zones like Sudan and South Sudan, war and instability fuel the rise of human trafficking. At Lift Up the Vulnerable (LUV), we’ve seen how violence fractures families, disrupts education, and creates the perfect conditions for traffickers to exploit the most vulnerable — especially children. But there’s hope. Through locally-led efforts focused on protection, education, and leadership development, LUV interrupts this cycle and empowers communities to build a safer, more resilient future. Learn how we’re transforming lives—and how you can help.