Hungry Children and Self-Reliance

Finding something to eat -- Photo by Akol Akol Deng

Finding enough food to eat is a chore for children in Sudan if they have parents.  Orphans often don’t make it.

Orphanage Food Self-Reliant

Southern Sudan Humanitarian (SSH) has been supporting an orphan care program in Akobo, Sudan.  The orphan care program is run by local volunteers, with SSH providing funds for one meal a day, pay for local teachers,  and some supplies.  We have also helped with some of the costs of materials for a four room school of traditional structure style built by local volunteers.

The volunteers asked us for help with items to help the orphans and volunteers to become more self-sufficient.  We responded with nets and hooks that they asked for to catch fish in the river that runs past the orphanage.  We also provided funds for a diesel powered grain grinder.  The women volunteers don’t have to hand grind the grain for the meal that they cook for the orphans since they got the powered grinder.  They can also use the grinder to generate income for the orphanage by grinding grain for other villagers.

Expanded Garden

We are working with the orphanage to help them to grow a three acre garden.  We are starting a fund raising effort to buy tools, an irrigation water pump and solar panels to power the pump.  Stephen Biel, a Sudanese man now living in the USA, and Bart Tippets are heading up the fund raising effort. The garden will help with nutrition and self-reliance for the orphanage.  Read a letter from Stephen Biel explaining the situation at: http://southsudanhungerproject.wordpress.com/hunger-in-akobo-sudan/

Donations can be made on line at our website www.sudanhelp.org.

Claron

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