By William Logai Ochieng | Executive Director
Thank you for standing with South Sudan! Thanks you for helping Omilling!
Because of a 5-year armed operation involving the national soldiers and rebel forces our aid workers who were previously in the countryside helping had left South Sudan. As we cannot guarantee the safety of the project coordinators in the rural areas where the charity operates we decided not to enlist new volunteers. This lack of management capacity had affected our capability to gather the information from the country side to post you the quarterly field update report.
However, there is good news to share with you. Last August the army and rebel have signed a peace deal formally ending a five-year war that has destroyed the economy and killed tens of thousands of civilians. We’re glad to report to you that your cash and gifts from other sources had been set aside until this November. We did not use your donations because HopeOfiriha had suspended working in the country due to the past worse security situation. With a tranquillity returned we are resuming our not-for-profit activities in Omilling right away. Your dollar will be used for this cause.
At the time of this reporting:
This activity is in Omilling – South Sudan. However the long-ago war reduced our ability to keep running this activity for three reasons:
1) We had a huge volunteer’s turnover. Most fled to Uganda to be refugees. This means we had to wait until the combat stops.
2) With peace returned we’re looking to enlist many unpaid helpers to operate this activity.
3) Lack of management capacity. This internal structural weakness had been there for a several months because the program coordinator we had for years had left and a substitute is critically needed for our activity in East Africa. We’re searching for a top talent.
After this report we will be posting to you a second field update report to let you know during unreported period what took place and the current status of this need.
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