Karak Mayik Denyok is a South Sudanese humanitarian who working to help women and street children in South Sudan. On her Facebooks page, Karak posted series of videos about over 20 South Sudanese children who were homeless on the streets of Rumbek Centre. Since 2005, Karak has been working with women but when the war broke out again 2013, the number of orphaned peaked and many of these kids became victims. Some of them were being physically abused as they were termed as thieves. In her first interview with SBS Dinka, while she was in the USA, Karak said that girls suffer the most because many of them are being enslaved and later forced to marry at young age. Another video shows women being given bicycles. Karak is the founder of Diar for Rehabilitation and Development Association. In a short biography posted on the website
As a survivor of war in Sudan, Karak Denyok saw firsthand the extreme suffering of women and children in Eastern Africa. Karaks determination to alleviate these desperate circumstances led her to create Diar for Rehabilitation and Development Association. Diar means woman in Dinka, Karaks native language. DRDA started in 2003 as an indigenous non-profit, social and humanitarian organization dedicated to advocate for womens and childrens rights and serve Sudanese women in displaced camps and in war-torn zones in the then new Sudan liberated areas.
Here is the interview on SBS Dinka
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