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Romania
Bringing hope and a future for the Roma/Gypsy folks in Romania. Simple mud homes are slowly being transformed into brick homes with added insulation and solid roofs. Some of our former students, who are now adults, are taught skills like sewing, wood working or farming to enable them to provide for themselves. Former students who have children of their own now understand the benefits of education and are encouraging the second generation to pursue God and a better life through education. The kindergarten is key to the children’s further education so they can learn Romanian, which is a second language for them. Caleb Foundation also provides an After School Program where the older children receive tutoring, help with homework and a meal. There are three Summer Camps each year for the different age groups. Between the camps, school programs and Caleb’s work in the community, children are thriving and families have hope for their future.
Short Term Mission Trips from various groups help run the summer camps and the various activities around the community of Lazereni.
Two different Christmas parties are provided to the two groups of after-school kids.
The almost completed Community Building, which will be a multipurpose building for the school and the community. The new building will be equipped with dormitories, bathrooms and a kitchen. It will be ready to host folks on mission trips in the summer of 2024!
India
South Sudan
The celebration and dedication of the bore well which was established in 2020 to supply the school and the community with water. The school and water supply has brought various tribes together in harmony.
Life in the community of Mundari Bura.
Left overs of the civil war, shell casing of bullets and tank. But there is still occasional civil unrest when various factions rise up against each other.
The treacherous roads leading to Mundari Bura from the city of Juba. These road become unpassable during the rainy season.
Another initiative in South Sudan:
The Rock City Medical Centre (RCMC) project is started to meet the medical and health needs of people of a country and city ravaged by chronic civil wars.
Given the past and current political situation in South Sudan and the nascent health system, government led health system alone regrettably is not able to meet all the health demands in our nation and city. Most if not all parts of Juba city still experience lack of basic health and medical services.
The private and faith-based sector can and will play a major role in bridging the health divide, and collectively strive to meet the universal and national health objectives. The Rock City Medical Centre (RCMC) in Juba intends to tangibly add value in meeting and bridging the health needs of the people of South Sudan in general and Juba and Rock City area in particular where health services, even after the return of relative peace to the nation are still lacking. We are therefore grateful to you for considering sponsoring our strategic initiative. Supporters are welcomed!
Historical background of South Sudan:
South Sudan is the world’s newest nation with an estimated population of about 12 million, and covers a geographical area of approximately 640,000 square kilometres. South Sudan is a country emerging from protracted civil wars that spanned over fifty (50) years. The first seventeen (17) years civil war (1955 - 1972) ended in 1972 with the signing of the Addis Ababa Peace Acord (AAPA) between the government of Sudan and the liberation movement in the South (Anya Nya). This gave a brake of ten (10) years of peace but in 1983, the country descended into a second twenty-one (21) years civil war (1983 – 2005) which ended in 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the government of Sudan and the liberation movement in the South (SPLM/SPLA). This last peace agreement (CPA), paved the way for independence of South Sudan from Sudan.
In 2011, South Sudan seceded from then Sudan and achieved its independence. But just two (2) years post-independence (2013), the country went into another internal South-South civil war which brought additional and grave suffering to the people and loss of lives. This means that South Sudan has witnessed and experienced three (3) civil wars to date.
In these civil wars, infrastructure was destroyed, millions of lives were lost and huge displacement happened to citizens from their towns and villages to cities especially the capital Juba. The current civil war in South Sudan post-independence caused not only delay in economic development but hampered service delivery in key sectors like health, education, agriculture and others. It also led to additional massive displacement of civilian population from their villages to cities and loss of many lives. The country is therefore facing multiple health challenges due to the chronic civil wars.
The Rock City Medical Centre (RCMC) project is a humble response to meet the health and medical needs of the people in Juba in general and Rock City Residential Area in particular.