Joy Falatiya said her husband kicked her and five children out of their home in March 2024 and that she fell apart after that.

Homeless and penniless, the 35-year-old South Sudanese mother said she thought of ending her life.

“I wanted to take my children and jump into the river,” she said while cradling a baby outside a room with cracked mud walls where she now lives.

But she’s made a remarkable recovery months later, thanks to the support of well-wishers and a mental health clinic nearby where she’s received counselling since April.

She said her suicidal thoughts are now gone after months of psycho-social therapy, even though she still struggles to feed her children and can’t afford to keep them in school.

The specialised clinic in her hometown of Mundri, in South Sudan’ s Western Equatoria State, is a rare and endangered facility in a country desperate for more such services. Now that the program’s funding from Italian and Greek sources is about to end, its future is unclear.

• An AP report