Providing safe water to South Sudan's returnees - in pictures

Maduany transition camp on the outskirts of Aweil town in South Sudan. Transition camps have been established to provide temporary convergence points for people returning from the north to the new state Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund Photograph: Layton Thompson/Action images The influx of people into South Sudan has put great strain on water points. At the Maduany transition camp, women have to queue for hours to collect water Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund On the outskirts of Aweil town, which is under stress from the number of returnees from the north, Marianna Awan leads home a group of women from the Maper host community after collecting water Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund People gather water in Omdurman, a community in the district of Aweil East. Tearfund maintains the borehole Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund Omdurman also hosts returnees from northern Sudan. Shown here is Peter, a Tearfund health worker, examining a small child in the clinic. South Sudan has little infrastructure; there are few schools or hospitals and not much in the way of sanitation Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund The child and his mother make their way by ambulance to a hospital in Aweil town. The boy was bitten by a dog, raising concerns about the risk of rabies Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund A health education session is held for the benefit of a community near Omdurman, which sits in a flat landscape of scrub and trees. Tearfund, through its partners in South Sudan, is working to provide health services in communities Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund A new shallow well is installed in a village near Omdurman Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund Under the direction of maintenance committees, local communities are taught how to manage and care for the wells Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund A rainwater harvesting tank in a village near Omdurman. The tanks collect rain, which can then be used by locals Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund Tearfund is training locals in building techniques so that they can construct public latrines as well as toilets for their families. The organisation says about 80% of people in South Sudan do not have access to any kind of toilet Photograph: Layton Thompson/Tearfund