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Bol Deng Bol, San Jose State Univ. Graduation, Dec. 2009

My Name is Bol Deng Bol. I was born in Southern Sudan in Kongor and came to USA in September 2001 as a refugee,and currently an American citizens residing in San Jose California/USA. I graduated from De Anza college in 2005 with AA degree in Liberal Arts with emphasis in Math/science and engineering,and a recent graduate from San Jose State University in December 17th,2009 with BS degree in Business Administration with concentration in Marketing and Minor in Economics.

After this great achievement, I am pursuing Master of Business Administration studies to have a competitive skills in business administrations that I can use in the business of today.

Kur John Aleu in Ndejje University Kampala Uganda, pursuing Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

Dear Sponsors,

Receive my cordial greetings to all of you in the name of our lord Jesus Christ. I am very much thankful to almighty father God for his kindness, mercy, protection and forgiveness plus all that he does to all of us. It is because of his mercy that we are able to live up to now not because we are faithful to him. Read the rest of this entry »

Gabriel Makuei Tor arrived as a refugee four and a half years ago from Kenya. He had watched as his friends left in 2001 for the US never thinking that he might never be called. In the meantime he followed his vocation to ministry by teaching English and leading Bible classes for over a hundred Sudanese widows in Nairobi.

Fianlly,  his day came to be relocated to San Jose. This last Saturday he graduated from De Anza College with plans to enter San Jose State University in the fall in pre-nursing.
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Thon Philip Alue and his brother have received school fees and living expenses from us in the past.  Thon Philip is a journalist now in Bor Town for the Sudan Tribune.
Read his April 25, 2009 article>>

For the past several years St. Stephen’s has  been supporting the education of the son of a key priest in the Diocese of Bor, Sudan.

Simon Mark T., son of Canon Mark Atem T.,  is finishing his 8th grade at a boarding school in Nairobi, Kenya.  Because there are no schools in Sudan due to the civil war, those who can find schooling in Kenya and Uganda are blessed.  Simon was born in a refugee camp where he had a year or so of school.  However for three years he and his siblings just sat at home because they had been forced to move.

One of the brightest students in his class, Simon is thriving in classes in English and Kitswali, Science Geography and Math, History and Social Sciences. He wants to become a doctor.

My name is Mary Lueth and I am the daughter of Pastor Mark Atem T.  I am learning in “A.G.C lake view academy”. I am fifteen years old. My best subjects in school are English and C.R.E. When I grow up, I would like to be a Broadcaster. From my previous experiences when we were in Uganda life was very hard because we had no food, water and clothes so we had to struggle to look for both of them. As we were continuing with our lives some of the people that were living with us they were shot down dead and we had to move from that place to another. But since the beginning of year 2003 life changed to good because father Jerry Drino and my father started building an initiative to assist the war affected people by working together as church leaders and I am very happy and God will Bless them because the have assisted us.

The first time that we came to Nakuru, it was good because we had food, shelter and clothes but now things have changed because the things we had have all disappeared and we continue praying that God will return them back because Jerry for all the things that he did to us. He brought us clothes, toys, storybooks and many others that helped us. I will never forget father Jerry for his great help  and God will bless  him those that work with him.

My name is Monica W.  I am a Sudanese girl aged ten years old. I am the first born child of my parents. I have three other siblings behind me, i.e. two sisters and a brother. I was born in Bor Southern Sudan in a clan called Atet.

I lost my father when I was very young and my mother took care of us since then. She struggled to feed us with the little she could get. After my father’s death, life became so difficult and we could not continue living in my father’s family due to the situation and hardship which we faced from our uncles, so we moved back to my maternal grandparents’ home.
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I am a young Sudanese girl called Sarah A. aged seven years.  I was born to my loving parents in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya).  My parents names are Rev.  Peter Garang D.  and Mary Achol M.   I am the first born child of my parents.

Having been born in a refugee camp I have experienced many challenges for example hunger, lack of medication and insecurity. 
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Simon Deng,  one of the  Lost Boys of Sudan, lives in San Jose, and is a Hope With Sudan board member.

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