By Simon Doble | Founder and Chair
We’re so thrilled to announce two new partnerships in South Sudan with organisations set up by students for students.
Edupower Youth Foundation, based in Juba, South Sudan was formed by ten African students in 2021 and is dedicated to ‘empowering youth and fostering a brighter future’. Enhancing access to education and improving job creation through entrepreneurial skills training, Edupower Youth Foundation hopes to create positive societal changes for young people in the region, particularly underprivileged youth. The organisation requested 50 lights and were blown away to hear a shipment of 250 is on its way!
Community Access for Sustainable Empowerment (CASE) was set up by Garang Buk Buk, a former child soldier. After finishing education, he worked to save up to study in Kenya and before leaving he bought one solar light for his family. After visiting from Kenya and observing crowds of children huddled under the one light to read and study, he began to bring books back from Kenya, made a shelter around the light and thus created his first ‘library’. From then on Garang Buk Buk has gone on to set up more and more libraries in South Sudan.
CASE is receiving 500 lights and plans to distribute the majority of these to girls in the communities in which the organisation works. Some of the lights will accompany books into prisons in South Sudan, where many inmates are young people. The recent conflict, poverty and a lack of family support often sees young people reoffend for petty crimes, and education offers one way to empower these young people towards a more hopeful future.
“I hope to provide them the opportunity to read and study so they will be inspired to turn their lives around once released” Garang Buk Buk, CASE
COUNTRY INSIGHTS: South Sudan
In South Sudan only 7.75% of the population have access to electricity (EYF)
According to Edupower Youth Foundation, communal conflicts and warfare over the last 12 years has seen over 800 schools destroyed, resulting in many children missing out on education. In 2022 UNICEF reported that 2.8 million children were out of school.
In 2016 29.1% of the population were living on less than $1 a day (Our World in Data)
In 2019, 11% of all deaths were attributed to indoor air pollution (Our World in Data)
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Simon Doble
Founder and Chair
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