00:01People from a Kwak community of South Sudan battle daily to keep their heads above the water.
00:07Each day water is literally encroaching on their land on a channel off the river Nile.
00:13Each day they rebuild river defences using clay and papyrus,
00:17but increased flooding driven by recent climate change has made their homes even more vulnerable to flooding.
00:24The reason why this water is coming out is that the soil underneath is not compacted well.
00:28So there are spaces through which the water can come up because it is something built by hand.
00:35So it will be maintained like the work Anyethe is doing there.
00:39He will put some soil on top of it and compact it.
00:44To build the islands, we start by spreading grass where we want to raise the ground.
00:50Then we go and cut papyrus and we level it on top of the grass.
00:54And then after that, we put soil on top.
00:56This is how to make the ground stronger and higher.
01:01South Sudan is considered the seventh most vulnerable country to climate change globally according to the United Nations.
01:07This year alone, over 375,000 people were displaced by flooding in the East African nation according to the UN agencies.
01:15We are doing this every year because we are staying in a lowland.
01:19So whenever the water rises with the flooding from the Nile or from rainwater,
01:23we have to do this to protect ourselves so that we are not chased away by water.
01:27But the past couple of years have been extremely testing and the local authorities estimate 2,000 of their quark people are persevering on the islands.
01:40Fishing is central to the community's existence.
01:43It feeds families and livestock.
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