Its hard to imagine living in a land where there is only one trained doctor for every 100,000 people, where more than half of all children in Sudan don't attend school so will struggle to find employment in a country where so many don't work and where a quarter of a million people are living in refugee camps along the Chad border.

Water is also a serious issue for children in southern Sudan in particular where small boreholes are the main source of water with people walking miles, then queuing for hours to get supplies of untreated water resulting in many suffering from bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever ~ all water related. Many children die from these diseases and those who do live have a life expectancy of just 52yrs.

It is against this background that many children in Sudan are severely traumatised; the scars in society are not a brief period in Sudan's history, for children they are history, no other normality have ever been experienced.

The recent referendum for independence for the south of the country may make a difference, but until that new country is fully established successfully and peacefully many are still wary about the future. This video explores the humanitarian intervention work being undertaken with children in the Sudan to help alleviate the pain and build a better future.