Sudan

The Choir’s work in Sudan began in 1993 while the country was still in the midst of a brutal civil war, and stories of the ‘Lost Boys of Sudan’ had reached the West.  The Choir initially stepped in with emergency food and medical supplies.  Those efforts have since grown.  Today, the African Children’s Choir™, in partnership with several other non governmental organizations, is helping to rebuild the entire educational infrastructure of Southern Sudan.

Sponsorship programs have helped establish and support approximately 20 primary schools and two secondary schools in the Kajo Keji county, currently educating over 3500 children.  In addition to raising finances for school buildings and staff, the Choir has worked to raise funds for schoolbooks, equipment, uniforms, and in–service training for staff.

The Choir also helps operate a Teacher’s Training College and Skills Training Institute – one of the first of its kind in the area.  Several hundred students are currently enrolled, with several hundred having graduated since 2002.  These young adults are being equipped with the ability to start up new primary schools.  The college also offers creative professional development for teachers who come from schools across the region.

Other projects include the support of a mobile medical clinic, which provides medical care and health education to the local communities in the county.  Local elders are also offered intermittent leadership training in the form of Pastors’ conferences, clinics on post–traumatic stress, conflict resolution and more.  Relief shipments and short-term teams continue to be sent from the West each year.