Southern Sudanese Children’s Literacy Foundation

Since 2002, the members of the Southern Sudanese Children’s Literacy Foundation have been working hard to try to address the issue of Literacy in their original home town of Chukudum and other areas in Southern Sudan. So far, they have managed to contribute a considerable amount of money that is now used to build Primary School in Ngatuba-Budi County in Southern Sudan.

Donations

Donations can be made payable to:

Southern Sudanese Children’s Literacy Foundation
#177, 104 - 1240 Kensington Road NW
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 4X7

Contact

If you would like additional information or if you wish to volunteer, donate or assist our Society in anyway, please contact us at:

Jilasio Lokwuawii, president
Jilasio@shaw.ca
(403) 286-1540

Augustino Lucano, board of directors
(403) 453-3524
alonyia@hotmail.com

Background information

Sudan’s civil war is the longest uninterrupted Civil war in the World.

The United Nations estimates that over 2 million people have lost their lives (most children)

There are over 4.5 million Sudanese that are displaced within their own Country.

The government of Sudan (GOS), through the “Scorched Earth Policy”, is displacing many more Southerners daily from the oil fields. This is a policy designed by the GOS to displace local people from the oil fields and resettle GOS loyalists, a group dominated by people of the Arabic origin. An additional report from the United Nations said 400,000 plus Sudanese have fled as refugees to neighbouring Countries. There are untold and visible inter and intra tribal conflicts. Air raids from the GOS are very common in most small towns in the South.

Infrastructure and public social service facilities are lacking in Southern Sudan. Where they are available, they are in a very poor state and require total rehabilitation. The whole area is geographically isolated from the north and people rely heavily on services from neighbouring countries. The transport network is no-existent and no there means of communication except by person to person.

Many people, especially young men and women, have spent the greater part of their lives fighting in the Civil War. They have had no access or time to attain basic education. That is where we come into help.

The NYSA

Ngatuba Young Students Association (NYSA) was formed in 1987 in a Kenya Thika Refugee Center. This group is made up of young students from Southern Sudan, who fled the country in 1986 due to the civil war. In 2002, NYSA consulted with various parties finding ways of helping the suffering Southern Sudanese children: through this, Southern Sudanese Children’s Literacy Foundation was formed, in Calgary, Alberta.