I made a recent visit with the team from South Sudan Lutheran Community Development of North America (non profit 5013c) February of 2023 to both of our partner Refugee Settlements Oula and Mungula located in Northern Uganda. We were able to provide two more days of Trauma and Healing workshops for the women and men. This is one of very essential needs expressed by the people living in the settlements as a priority to attend to the mental and emotional and spiritual health of the people in their community who have been displaced from their own country in South Sudan during the last several years due to conflict and flooding and civil unrest. These displaced people are now residing at the invitation of the Ugandan government in the Adjumini Region of Northern Uganda in Refugee Settlements/Camps. During our visit we met with our local staff there and the local women and men who have the training to managie and operate several micro businesses that SSLCD (5013c) has partnered with refugees in the settlements establish as part of their own self-sustaibilty in order to resource and provide for their own basic needs. Essential needs such as planting and growing crops for their own diet. raising chickens and goats for eggs and milk and some income from these livestock to help pay fees for education for their little boys and girls. We are also exploring the expansion of using more solar power for students studying for school after dark by the young students and as a source of energy for cooking as the demand for trees to cut for firewood is becoming more scarce.
100 percent of every penny donated to this project goes directly to the projects. We do not have employees because we are all volunteers and expenses are paid for by the kind and generous donations made by our supporters and our board members pay for all their own expenses. There is no office. No overhead.
Please consider making a difference for someone in need this year by carefully planning into your budget the dollar amount you think you could give to support our projects this year. And, as well please pass on the positive news about the great work SSLCD is doing for refugees in Africa. Please, you are welcome to Visit our website at southsudanlutherancommunitydevelooment.com to learn more about us, make a donation or contact us with any questions or make inquiries. You may also mail donations to the mailing address found on our website.
We have partnered wirh ROTARY CLUBS as well and together we have achieved many, many great things. If you know of any Rotary Club's looking for a project we know of several exciting possibilities and would like to hear from you! The picture below of the grainery in the background is a Rotary grainery located in the Refugee Settlements in both Oula and Mungula of Northern Uganda.
The work being done here and in the African Refugee Camps is truely wonderful, life changing and unique. I have had the pleasure of joining the SSLCD team work this year and it is truely one of the best things I have ever done in my life to help make a difference in the world. The refugees we partner with have asked us to express for them their thanks and great appreciation for remembering them from so far away and taking our own time and money to help them through difficult times and move forward with hope. They recently expressed to us how the training and co-operative opportunities that we have helped provide have moved them from thinking of themselves as just poor refugees to realizing they are able to contribute to their families, their community and their hosting country of Uganda in positive ways that promote peace, cooperation, and hope for everyone including all men, women and children. Thank you for reading this review. It would be excellent to hear from you as well and hope you would consider becoming a loyal partner with us. Sincerely, Christine Walton
Pictures below are of 1.) Trauma & Healing Workshops, 2.) some of our board members and 3.) mid-'wifery partners 4.) as well as a regugee woman living in a Refugee camp in Uganda who is a micro-business partner at one of our many co-operatives in the Grainery.
South Sudan suffers one of the world's highest rates of infant birth deaths. Poor nutrition and hygiene are primary causes. Each year since 2013 we conduct training related to safer childbirth with South Sudanese women, develop gardening projects, provide trauma healing training, and help women create sustainable micro-economic projects. Midwife training is based on Home Based Life Saving Skills, a training developed by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Our focus is on providing community education for women with a focus on healthy pregnancy and childbirth and this year the training was conducted in Olua and Mungula Refugee Camps. We have very experienced and dedicated leadership, both in the US and at the refugee camps in Uganda. Every penny you invest goes directly to assist the refugees in their resettlement camps in Uganda. All staff are volunteers, there is no office or other overhead. All supplies and fees are paid by our board members personally.
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