Kapelebyong district has experienced extensive amounts of rainfall that have affected various aspects of life ranging from livelihood, infrastructure, sanitation, access to water for consumption, and medication, mostly expectant mothers.

Kapelebyong has been experiencing threatening rains over a couple of months, and as of now, nature has intensified, forcing thousands of people to vacate their homes seeking shelter. While crops are rotting in gardens, grass for animals is covered with water.

People from over 54 villages are knocking heads trying to see where they can find food for their families, shelter, medication, and bridges were cut off by the waters hindering the movement within and across to areas to access goods and services due to the floods that hit the area on August 20, 2024.

According to Hellen Beatrice Aujo, a Woman Councillor of Acowa sub-county who expressed a life threat to her people that are suffering from floods in Acinga Villages, the villages are surrounded by waters just like highland. Therefore, increasing water levels have destroyed all crops.

‘’Flooding waters in our villages have destroyed cassava, potatoes, sim sim, and groundnuts. Houses and bridges are all broken, causing no access to medical care, which has mostly affected expectant mothers, and to make matters worse, the area has not had a health care facility; we have been leaning on the neighboring districts,’’ Ajulo said.

Aseri Amuko, a councillor for Akoromit sub-county, said that floods covered the recently constructed road from Akore town council to Oditei trading center, adding that animals have no clear access to pastures, while houses are collapsing every now and then, and pit latrines are all destroyed by waters, more especially in parishes of Kobuin, Oleka, Amito, Akore, Akuworo, Ometua, and the northern wards.

‘’Continued absence of pit latrine use in my villages is likely to cause alarm on outbreak of diseases, malnutrition due to lack of access to food, animals may die if re-allocation delays, and tomorrow’s commissioning of the health center III is likely not to happen due to absence of a road to connect to the facility,’’ Amuko said.

Floods are a nature that arises unexpectedly; however, due to the government’s commitment to resolving situations, district officials are now compiling a comprehensive report aimed at giving a long-lasting, better impact for the entire district.