Secondary School in Sudan

Benjamin Akol, Northern Illinois University

Time    TowardGift of Alleviating Poverty

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Commitment Information

  • Type: Student Group
  • Target: International Challenges
  • Focus Area: Alleviating Poverty
  • Hours Committed: 10 hours/week

We are committed to building a secondary school for boys and girls in Wau, Bahr El Ghazal, Sudan, where some schools are for primary students. There is very little for the secondary level students. We will make a not for profit to help us to raise money.



Goals

We want to achieve the goal of building the secondary school for the boys & girls to be educated like we have been. We will build a small school first, support the teachers, keep adding classrooms, and then make soccer fields. The UN & the USA gave us our education, and now we can do anything. We learned if another human being was there to help us, then we will help other children the same way. The US kids know that education is a basic human right that all people in the world must get.

Plan

We will raise money to build a school by sharing our story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. We can continue to speak to kids in schools, people in churches, & to the college & university students. We will sell t-shirts to make money too. We will work with our American friends to build a better website so school kids can go there to see pictures of the progress of the Wau school they helped to build. The US kids will see they are so lucky to have a good education that their own parents and teachers gave them. We will ask Samuel Anei's relatives in the government in So. Sudan to ask the people of Wau for a donation of land, where we can build the school. We want to buy a brick making machine, so the people in Wau can learn how to make bricks to help build the school. They will feel like the school is really theirs if they build it. Samuel Anei will go to S. Sudan from the US to supervise the building of the school. We will also buy a corn grinding machine, so the girls will not have to stay home and work. We want girls to be educated too, so they will not be poor all their lives.

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