Orphan for Orphans – Education and Books – Refugee Initiative
As an orphan who had been a refugee for over 20 years in the displacement and refugee camps in several counties of asylum from 1992 to 2014, James Ayuen Buol came to recognize the necessity of education and literacy toward the attainment of self-sufficiency with a path to sustainability.
A strategic objective of this initiative is to achieve self-reliance and empowerment of returnees (refugees returning from the refugee camps in neighboring countries) through gainful education and literacy.
Present goal
Orphans and other groups of children currently inside South Sudan
are still experiencing civil war and hunger. A goal of this initiative is
to assist South Sudanese refugees, former refugees and other disadvantaged South Sudanese orphaned war survivors to more easily adjust and realize their potential and hope for a positive future. Literacy education is expected to bring South Sudanese communities together and for them to experience freedom and unity.
The children in South Sudan get little educational material. In learning English they have little opportunity to read to increase their skill. Used books will be collected to deliver to Africa and be used in schools there. James Ayuen Buol, a native of South Sudan, is collecting discarded children’s books to deliver there.