Southern Sudan Humanitarian Action Development Agency (SSHADA)
Mission
The mission of Southern Sudan Humanitarian Action Development Agency is to help provide educational, economic development, and basic health care opportunities to the people of Kajokeji county and area in Southern Sudan. Kajokeji is a small county in Southern Sudan that shares its southern border with Uganda. This area has been especially hard hit by the civil war with much of its social and economic infrastructure destroyed.Education
There is no better investment in the future of a country than in the education of its people. So many children are scattered in the displaced areas in Southern Sudan. With the influx of refugees returing back to Southern Sudan, the few schools left after the war lack funding and resources. SSHADA's first priority is to provid basic education to these children.Development
Rebuilding a war-torn land will be a long and difficult process. SSHADA is committed to building a strong infrastructure and to helping the people become self-reliant economically. Through development these children will have more access to education and a secure future.Lire Secondary School Block and Students on practical work
Latest News
Dear friends
As we look forward to the 2008, I'm very pleased to report that we have realized significant progress in our work in providing education services to the people of Lire community in Kajo-keji County, South Sudan, as well our fundraising efforts to expand Lire Secondary school into Comprehensive College. The College will become a trade and skills centre, as well will provide high school level education to youth. For more information about this project refeer to the project page or contact Senos Timon.
The construction of one of the three buildings required for the college has started and the foundation work is now completed. The construction is proceeding on with the few resource we have and is schedule to be complete in the end of 2008. Lire Comprehensive College will start to offering vocational courses in 2009, if fundraising efforts are successful.
On behalf of SSHADA and on my own behalf, I would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to all our supports for the generosity and support you have shown for our organization and its work in South Sudan. Without caring people like you, we would not be able to continue the work that we feel is so important . Your donation is not only helping us to build the college, but it has created employment opportunities in the local community. Our thermometer indicates that even though we are making progress, we have a long way to go. Please help us achieve this goal by making online donation through Canadahelp.org or mail your donation to SSHADA.
I would like to pay special tribute to our vulunteers for the 2007 "Lire Comprehensive College Brick Campaign" without these talented people we would not be able to put this milestone of the foundation work for the College. Therefore on behalf of SSHADA management team and Lire Community, I would like to say thank you to the following people; Kim & Bart Gilbert, Kip Luce, Faye Georget, Kristy Pavelich, Tina & Vincent Colistro, Brendette Levesque, May Coming ( MoutRoyal Collegiate), St. Mark School. Last, but not the least, we give special thanks to Mrs. Onyilagha for initiating the Sudan Relief Fund at St. Mark School.
We also want to extend a special thank you to SCIC ( Saskatchewan Council for International Corporation) for supporting our organization through out the past years and particularly in providing direct financial support for the Lire Comprehensive College project through the Community Link fund and we also want to thank all other charties that help to fundraise on our behalf.
On behalf of SSHADA management team, I offer season greeting and wishing you and your families all the best through the year 2008.
Senos Timon
Executive Director
Lire Comprehensive College “Brick Campaign”
SSHADA has been working for the past two years to support the communities of Lire and Ngepo Payams located in Kajo-Keji County, Southern Sudan, in their need to build and maintain a secondary level school. Lire Comprehensive College is a community initiated, self-help project that will expand the modest facility that has already been built. In addition to ordinary level high school subjects already offered, advanced level high school subjects and trade skills courses will be available.
Typical 'O' and 'A' level subjects to be offered include; math, English, biology, chemistry, geography, physics, commerce, agriculture, political education, and history. One year applied certificate programs would be offered in accordance with the needs of the local labor market and community priorities. Courses would include; arts and crafts, construction, including masonry and related trades, carpentry, sewing and clothing design, and agriculture, including crop, land and animal management.
Expected staff requirements are; 15 teaching staff, 10 secondary school teachers and 5 vocational teachers, 5 support workers and a principle/administrator.
SSHADA'S objective for 2008 is to provide funds for the construction of one of the three building blocks that will be required for the Lire Comprehensive College, and provide furniture, equipment and scholastic materials. The estimated cost of constructing one building block is $45,000 CDN.
Your donation of one or many bricks at $5 each will go a long way to helping us complete this important work.
Our thermometer indicates that even though we are making progress, we have a long way to go. Please make online donation through Canadahelp.org or mail your donation to SSHADA.
Note: For those who wish to make online donations through Canadahelps.org, please write the organization full name in the area require.
Thanks again, your support is helping to make a possible bright future for young people in Southern Sudan.Southern Sudan…from Conflict to Hope
SSHADA was fortunate to be able to attract two outstanding speakers to the symposium; Dr. Francis Deng, a research professor at Johns Hopkins University and former minister of state for foreign affairs of the Sudan and Senator Mobina Jaffer, Canada’s Special Envoy to the Peace Process in Sudan.
On May 6th, 2005, SSHADA organized a symposium in Saskatoon, Canada titled “Southern Sudan…from Conflict to Hope”. Topics for discussion were the history of the civil war in Sudan leading up to the recent peace agreement, the needs of returning refugees and displaced persons, and Canada's role in the peace process.
