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Sudan: Remix a Nation
Additional Information Update: September 2008“Remix a fence” We press into our continued fundraising campaign for the Sudan Training Center project. Lots of work to do; I pray for your efforts as you help us rebuild Sudan and their people with your fundraising ideas and events! As suggesed, we will be working hard to provide real time project updates regarding SuDANCE contributions
Most needed
$ Amount
Item
Description
1
$1,500
Aggregate
7 Tonnes
2 $1,200 Sand 7 Tonnes
3 $1,500 Cement 44 Bags of 50kg 4 $800 Transport Transport, Accomodaton and food on Site for 1 technician
for 7 days.5 $5,000 Transport Transport Material from Kenya to site. 6 $1,000 Transport Transport Materials from Juba to Kenya 7 $100 Visa to travel Visa to travel to Sudan for one technician-Elija Mumo “Remix the life of a child” Because we now have two hundred children attending our school, sponsorship is our most pressing need. The $30 monthly contribution provides the basic needs for one child: one meal each day and school fees to attend our school. The meal that the children receive at school may be the only meal they receive the whole day. While it is important for us to construct school buildings, the health (mental, physical and spiritual) of a child is more important than the physical buildings. Our goal is to provide every child with a nutritious meal, a quality education, spiritual development, and love and care.
Most needed
$ Amount
Item
Description
1
$30/month
Sponsorship
school fees, supplies, one meal/day
“Remix a school” Desks, textbooks, and workbooks are the top three needs for the school. Desks are most important as the children currently work on the dirt floors of the classrooms. Each desk purchased will seat three children. Text books are second on the list. At present there is one text book per class so the teachers instruct the entire class from that one book. And finally, each child needs a workbook where they can write the lessons and practice their schoolwork.
This is the first school established in this region after the end of the twenty-one years of war. Classrooms have recently been built where the children now meet. A handful of generous donors including students from Azusa Pacific University have worked to raise the money for the roof and walls. However, as the school year began in April, we realized there is a great need for an additional classroom and for floors. Cement floors are very important to have installed in each classroom because the torrential rains during the rainy season in Southern Sudan (November through April) cause the dirt floors to become muddy. This makes it difficult for learning as the children have no desks or chairs to sit on.
The fifty acre piece of land where our SuDance partners ELI are located is currently open to stray animals from surrounding villages. The Dinka tribe grazes their cows wherever they can. Since any kind of greenery is sparse in this region, these animals eat and destroy any crops or greenery they can find. In the past, a group of goats wandered into our garden and ate seventy-five of the newly planted mango trees that were being cultivated for our “Remix our Skills for Life trainings”. We want to plant more vegetables to feed the children, but we first need to make sure they will not be eaten by animals. This is why a fence is needed to surround the land. The fence that would surround the land would need to be metal because termites in Southern Sudan are aggressive; wooden posts would be destroyed within a year. Instead of replacing the wooden posts every year, it would be more cost effective to use metal posts.
The needs of the school are listed below with the most needed items listed first:
Most needed
$ Amount
Item
Description
1
$6,000
Desks
one desk ($90) seats 3 children
2
$2,500
Text books
3
$9,900
Classroom
floors (aggregate/small stones & sand)
walls
wood trusses
corrugated iron sheeting
windows
4
$4,500
Pit latrines
boys, girls, and staff
5
$3,000
Fence & Termite Resistant Posts (metal)
$10/ten feet
6
$350
Sports equipment
soccer & netball equipment
7
$1,500
Chairs
for classrooms and staff room
8
$3,000
Uniforms
9
$1,500
Teachers’ tables
”Remix Emergency Health Care” Every day, people in the villages suffer due to sickness or injury. There are very few clinics in the area - the closest clinic is in Padak, which is an hour away and is mainly used for serious injuries. Children living in cattle camps are being injured by cows. One child in particular had his mouth ripped open up to his nose by a cow’s horns. A simple scrape can turn into a serious infection. Flies can lay eggs in open wounds and then hatch maggots. Malaria can cause people to become very sick. There are no antibiotics or antiseptics readily available and the immune systems of malnourished children and adults are low since their diets consist of only milk and millet. Currently, ELI Sudan Director Stephen Reech spends significant amounts of time and money taking children and adults to the clinic. This fund will provide emergency funds to help transport and treat people at the nearby clinic in Padak as well as have some medications on hand.
Most needed
$ Amount
Item
Description
1
$20
Medical treatment and transportation
$20 on average will transport and treat a serious cut or provide medication for common illnesses such as malaria, bacterial infections, or worms.
“Remix skills for Life Training” Empowering the lives of people is at the core of what we aim to accomplish in Southern Sudan. People are desperate for security and hungry for ideas that will improve their ability to sustain their lives through animal care and agriculture. Throughout the year, villagers are offered the opportunity to attend a week-long seminar that includes strategies on growing area-appropriate food through hands-on demonstrations and practical classroom sessions. There are usually three seminars a year. We expect close to sixty people at our next seminar.
A large group of people that attend the training sessions are pastors. Pastors are the natural leaders in their communities; villagers look to them to lead and take care of them. The pastors are pleading that we help them by teaching them ways to provide more food for their communities. We want teach them about faith, and give them practical tools and ideas on farming and planting during the rainy season as well as raising healthier animals.
$50 will help to provide the life-changing knowledge that is a hand-up and not a hand out, enabling people to become more self-reliant, healthy, and productive through food production and business skills.
Most needed
$ Amount
Item
Description
1
$50
Sponsorships
registration for one person to attend
”Remix the earth” (Trees) Deforestation is a growing problem in the villages of Africa. Southern Sudan has been especially devastated. Due to the war and the demand for trees for housing, heating, and cooking needs, Southern Sudan is described as “deforestation on a massive scale.” Most people cook and build with wood from local trees but do not replant them. Fuel and shade are becoming scarce in many villages and soil erosion then carries away any hope of growing good crops.
Stephen has built an area enclosed in chicken wire so that no goats or cows can penetrate it. In this area he has planted tree seedlings in tubes. Eventually these trees will grow large enough so that even if a goat stands or leans on it, it will not be knocked over. These trees will be used in the Skills for Life Training seminars to teach villagers and pastors how to plant and grow trees.
You can help grow a dozen trees, shrubs, or hedges in a nursery and provide support to our staff in getting them out to needy families in villages where they are greatly needed. Trees and bushes can be used as a “live fences” to keep goats and cows out of gardens.
Most needed
$ Amount
Item
Description
1
$15
Trees
$15 can grow a dozen trees, shrubs or hedges in a nursery.
“Remix the life of a child” (Orphanage) The war-torn country of Sudan has separated many children from their families; either the child does not know where her family is or her parents have been killed, thus leaving the child an orphan. Many of the children at our school live in cattle camps among thousands of cattle and survive off the milk and blood from the cows. They smear the ashes from burning cow dung onto their bodies to protect them from mosquitoes and tsetse flies and sleep on hides from the cows.
We are currently constructing the homes for the twenty-four orphans we will adopt. The orphanage walls, windows and roof are constructed, however, the rooms need floors. The prime time for construction is during the dry season, which is November through April. This time is best because it provides the best road conditions. The sand and stones used to make the floors are driven on large trucks from about 100 miles away. The cement used for the floors is imported from Kenya. In order to get these materials to our orphanage, the roads need to be dry.
Daniel Deng, his wife and children are on staff with ELI and live on the premises solely to take care of the orphaned children.
Most needed
$ Amount
Item
Description
1
$25,000
Homes
floors (aggregate/small stones & sand)
”Remix a village” (Water) Many areas of Southern Sudan are without reliable or clean water supply. In most cases, drilling a two hundred-foot-deep borehole with rugged hand pump is the best solution and changes the health and future of a village. This will bring clean water to many families in need.
This is lower on the priority list because of several reasons, the first reason being that we already have a borehole on our property. To install a new borehole would mean finding the right location and then making sure there is relationship built with the people of that community. Relationships need to be established so that once the borehole is installed, the people will maintain it and take care of it. We want to make sure that the borehole impacts the most people. Installing a borehole also requires us working with the company that drills the hole. We would be put on a waiting list and deposit half of the full amount. The holes are only drilled during the dry season (May through October). It can take up to a year to have a well completed
Most needed
$ Amount
Item
Description
1
$15,000
Install borehole and hand pump