Anna Abwoo lost her husband to a motorcycle ACCIDENT, which left her raise their five children on her own. Determined to provide for them, Anna began selling beer locally brewed in her village. Her profits were tiny, so she looked for other ways to earn a decent income. Click this link to learn more about Anna. Anna explained to program Coordinator Alice Amwony her idea of running a telephone booth that would operate only after her working hours on market days. While opening a tel-kiosk… Read More
Oklahoma Needs Your Help
You can help victims of the deadly tornado that swept through Oklahoma On Monday by making a donation to Oklahoma Tornado Relief Fund. We are raising international awareness to raise funds for GlobalGiving for cleanup and victim aid. Know of any ways to fundraising? Let us know, and we’ll send a donation link there. Let us stick with our friends in Oklahoma in this hard time!
Give Encouragement to Nice Kids!
Let’s overwhelm these children with support as they will be heading back to school next year in Uganda. Leave an encouraging message today! Here’s your chance to send an encouraging message to nice children in South Sudan or Naka currently on visit in Uganda: Just leave a comment on this Facebook post, and we’ll send your message to the children! HOPE Ofiriha children campaign this year has one goal: to help 100 new children stay in school in 2013. Some many factors – illness, hunger,… Read More
Combating Poverty through Education
Omilling’s former child-soldier problem is a complicated one! Astrid Wang and Lunde Arneberg from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design are returning to Omilling to construct Mario primary school in November. The plan A – is to build one classroom, girl-pit latrine, and a teacher’s house. They are busy re-designing the school’s structure to match village’s standard. Fighting against decades of marginalization and intense state of poverty that spawn the practice, it is sometimes hard to imagine there is a way to help. Funding… Read More
Meeting in Omilling, South Sudan
Work on the Mairo Primary School is at a new stage! Last August, Astrid Rohde Wang and Lunde Arneberg from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design, and I visited Omilling to meet with the villagers. The Traditional Authority has approved the building plan and the community has already taken the ownership of the project. The two volunteers visited the donated plot and measured the site where the school will be built. The villagers gave a helping hand, and also assisted in searching for the red soil discovered… Read More
Educate Children and Fight Poverty
Since the signing of the peace agreement in 2005, Omilling village has seen an influx of returning refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including hundreds of war orphans and former child soldiers. The only school the village has to serve several thousand elementary-aged students is a small two-room temporary shack made out of twigs. The shack, used for early elementary, has no text books and no pit latrines (giving the school grounds an unpleasant odor)… Read More
Bring Hope to a Destitude Family
Hope Ofiriha hopes to expand our reach and help women and children from South Sudan rebuild their lives in Omdurman. As a pilot project, we are helping a family of six: Ms. Alia, a divorced mother; her four children; and her elderly mother. The family was left destitute after Ms. Alia’s husband divorced her and refused to pay child support. As a divorced woman, she is shunned by her community, and Sudan has no social services to help her and her children… Read More
Build a Classroom for Vulnerable Children
Since the signing of the peace agreement in 2005, the remote Onura settlement has seen an influx of returning refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including more than a hundred war orphans and former child soldiers. Thanks to Hope Ofiriha’s generous donors, the two-classroom Onura Primary School opened in the settlement in 2006 to serve 72 students. Since then, the school has grown to more than 350 students (150 girls and 200 boys), forcing some classes… Read More
Stop Poverty from Forcing Kids Out of School
Since the signing of the peace agreement in 2005, Omilling village has seen an influx of returning refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Most of them are women and children, and most “families” are single mothers caring for three or more children—their own off-spring, the children of relatives, war orphans, or children separated from their families. Many of these children never step foot in a school, practically guaranteeing a life-long cycle of poverty… Read More
Stop Poverty from Forcing Kids Out of School
Since the signing of the peace agreement in 2005, Omilling village has seen an influx of returning refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Most of them are women and children, and most “families” are single mothers caring for three or more children—their own off-spring, the children of relatives, war orphans, or children separated from their families. Many of these children never step foot in a school, practically guaranteeing a life-long cycle of poverty… Read More
Give Children a Chance to Go to School
The great World Cup football tournament is kicking off today at 4 p.m. with the host country opening against Mexico. I cannot wait! I wish my team (England) was on slightly better form but am still hopeful! There is also something we can do to create a lasting legacy that could see millions more kids receive an education. South Africa President Jacob Zuma has just announced that he will hold a global leadership summit during the World Cup. The aim? Push leaders and football fans… Read More
