BACKGROUND OF SOUTHERN SUDANESE CHILDREN’S LITERACY FOUNDATION
The government of Sudan (GOS), through the “Scorched Earth Policy”, is displacing many more Southerners daily from the oil fields. This is a policy designed by the GOS to displace local people from the oil fields and resettle GOS loyalists, a group dominated by people of the Arabic origin. An additional report from the United Nations said 400,000 plus Sudanese have fled as refugees to neighbouring Countries. There are untold and visible inter and intra tribal conflicts. Air raids from the GOS are very common in most small towns in the South.
- ✔Sudan’s civil war is the longest uninterrupted Civil war in the World.
- ✔ United Nations estimate that over 2 million people have lost their lives (most children)
- ✔ There are over 4.5 million Sudanese that are displaced within their own Country.
- ✔ Infrastructure and public social service facilities are lacking in Southen Sudan. Where they are available, they are in a very poor state and require total rehabilitation. The whole area is geographically isolated from the north and people rely heavily on services from neighbouring countries. The transport network is no-existent and no there means of communication except by person to person.
- ✔Many people, especially young men and women, have spent the greater part of their lives fighting in the Civil War. They have had no access or time to attain basic education. That is where we come into help.
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