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A boy walks through an important dike shielding Pibor town. Regardless of the effort put in by the community to fortify the dike it broke and several areas of the town were flooded.A child tries to avoid getting her dress wet in the floods.'We make sacrifices to bring our children to safety using bucket' Nyalong Wal, 36, carries her daughter, Nyamal Tuoch, 2, to dry landYoak paddles his canoe across the flood to his old home where he will begin dismantling his destroyed home'I am destroying this flooded house so I can make a house in a dry place for my children' Nyachuana Lok tries to dismantle her destroyed home.An entire family works into the night trying to scoop out flood water that gushed into their land just a few hours ago when a dyke brokeThe end of a long day trying to drain flood water from her land.Men work in the mid day sun to urgently reinforce a dykeNyanong trying to build a dike to protect her home from flood waVolunteers in Old Fangak work all day in blistering heat to build a dike high enough to prevent the flood water from inundating the market.'The dikes usually break at night, so when it broke that night I couldn't do anything because it was dark and my children and I were alone at home so we just went back to sleep. We slept on the top of the bed even while the water came inside the house'.A cow eat's the remains of a collapsed roof in the floods. Cattle have suffered greatly in the floods and often become ill after eating grass in the water. They have little choice.Families live on isolated man made floating grass islands to survive three years of continuous flooding.Nyadiang Gak, 50, from Lakabang Village, stands beside her destroyed maize crops after losing for two years in a row her much needed harvestNyaruot Gatluak plants rice at a community rice paddy. Growing rice is an innovative idea to alleviate hungerVolunteers from the flood affected community stand beside the rice paddy that they planted that day. They are adapting by planting rice which grows well in the flood