What’s New
Project Education Sudan Awarded $70,000 Grant From LARABARProject Education Sudan will expand its school development in three villages in Jonglei State, Southern Sudan, thanks to a $70,000 Grant from LARABAR, Small Planet Foods, General Mills. The Grant, which will be rolled-out over three years, will result in our schools continued development of Jonglei Hope Secondary Academy in Maar, Ayak Anguei Girls’ Primary in Konbek and Pagook Secondary in Pagook. All three schools serve over 1,500 students of which over half are girls. In photo at right are (left to right) Sarah McDowell, LARABAR Brand Development, Daniel Gai and Panther Abuk, PES Sudanese Board Members, Carol Rinehart, Executive Director. |
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One Day on Earth and Project Education Sudan 10.10.10 ProgramProject Education Sudan has been invited to be a participant, along with documentary filmmakers, students, and inspired citizens who will record the human experience over a 24-hour period across the planet — One Day on Earth — The Sudanese Visual History Program on October 10, 2010 (10-10-10). By participating in this historic event, it will help capture the diversity of life and culture on this planet. With this partnership, they will create a document that is a gift to the world. The flagship of this project is a 120-minute documentary to be released theatrically. http://www.onedayonearth.org/profiles/blogs/one-day-on-earth-webcast-629 and Project Education Sudan’s participation profile: http://www.onedayonearth.org/groups/index/?xg_source=msg_appr_group Please read and then pass on this great news to your friends! |
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Salida Second Annual Circus Stiltathon and Circus WalkOn Saturday, September 11th, Salida Circus will conduct their Second Annual Stiltathon & Circus Walk around Salida to honor the Lost Boys of Sudan 1000 mile trek. Proceeds will benefit Project Education Sudan’s Pagook Secondary School. Kids and adults will solicit pledges for the walk which will take place on Saturday. It is one of many events taking place to benefit Project Education Sudan and bring awareness of the Lost Boys and their efforts to give back to their homeland. The fundraiser is one of a series of events taking place in Salida: August 7-September 12 SUDAN: Promise & Hope Art and Photographic Exhibit September 10
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Past Events:
Half the SkyAugust 7 & 8, 2010, 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Half The Sky Fair, inspired by the Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn book and organized by The Women’s College Culture and Communications class is dedicated to organizations that support women and girls around the world. Ayak Anguei Girls’ School is Sister School Partners with The Women’s College. The funds raised from this event will go toward the Ayak Anguei Uniform Project to provide each of the 600 girls a uniform. A girl wearing a uniform is a statement of pride and confidence which announces to the village and the world, “I am a girl going to school and getting an education!” Join us in the Garden Room of The Women’s College, with vendors like Bread for Life, The Women’s Bean Project and other organizations that support women around the globe,. Bid at the silent auction for a chance to win tickets to Comedy Works or Lamont Opera, Jewelry, Candles, and much more! Take part in the fun, food, entertainment and empowerment education.
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SUDAN: Promise & Hope ExhibitCurator - Christine Mahree Fowler For your enjoyment, please stop by St. Mark’s Coffee House to view and purchase a vast array of artwork done by local artists as well as beautiful photographic images taken recently in Southern Sudan. All of the images will be on display between May 31 - July 30, 2010 and are moderately priced. Proceeds benefit Jonglei Hope Secondary Academy, Ayak Anguei Girls’ Primary and Pagook Secondary Schools.
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L.I.O.N.S. (Leadership Institute of New Sudan)
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Painting a Future – Building an Education
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3rd Biennial Art & Artifacts BenefitFeaturing over 40 of Colorado’s finest artists’ original and Sudanese inspired paintings and sculpture, including collector quality African artifacts. Proceeds benefit schools currently in progress: Jonglei Hope Secondary Academy, Ayak Anguei Girls Primary, and Pagook Secondary School. September 26, 2009 |
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Salida Circus Stiltathon and Circus WalkOn Saturday, September 12th, Salida Circus will conduct a pledged Stiltathon & Circus Walk around Salida to honor the Lost Boys of Sudan 1000 mile trek. Proceeds will benefit Project Education Sudan’s Pagook Secondary School. Kids and adults will solicit pledges for the walk which will take place on Saturday. It is one of many events taking place to benefit Project Education Sudan and bring awareness of the Lost Boys and their efforts to give back to their homeland. The fundraiser is one of a series of events taking place in Salaida:
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Exhibit DarfurProject Education Sudan is a part of the National Exhibit Darfur Tour. We are represented by Carol Francis-Rinehart, Executive Director and the images from Our Journey of Hope team. Please click here to tour the exhibit. PES is the continuum of hope out of the destruction and suffering in Sudan. |
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Girls & Women of Sudan: In Pursuit of Education
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PES Journey of Hope Trip to Southern SudanThis March-April, The Journey of Hope 2008 team will consist of 13 PES volunteers, including 4 Lost Boys, who will travel to the villages of Konbek, Pagok, Gopmeth and Maar/Paliau in Southern Sudan. In Sudan, the group will be implementing teacher strategy workshops to train primary and secondary school teachers and adult income literacy workshops for women to learn basic math and accounting skills to run a business around the grinding mills and sewing machines delivered to each school site. This year they will deliver three more grinding mills to each of the three villages that they visit to help emancipate the girls and women from the hours of hand grinding in order to attend school. In addition, the team will be supervising the drilling of a well and negotiating with village elders in Pagok for a third school site. They will be doing follow up monitoring and assessment of work in progress as well. |
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2nd Annual Art & Artifacts BenefitFeaturing over 25 Colorado artists’ paintings from images of the Sudan Journey of Hope 2007 trip. Saturday, September 15, 2007 |
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PES at Taos, New MexicoOn August 25th, five of the Lost Boys and a handful of American PES volunteers traveled to Taos, New Mexico for a fundraiser at the Gallery on the Green at the Taos Country Club. The benefit was hosted by Betsy Carey and featured dancing and singing by the Lost Boys and paintings created by local artists. Half of the proceeds from all artwork sold at the event are being donated to PES by the artists. The artwork not sold at the event will be on display at the country club and for sale until early January 2008 with fifty percent of the proceeds continuing to be donated to PES. This is the second time the Lost Boys have been invited to Taos; last spring, they attended a screening of the documentary film The Lost Boys of Sudan and One Story: Isaac Khor Bher. Over $1,500 was raised for treadle sewing machines for the Ayak Anguei Girls School in Isaac’s village of Konbek. The young men were guests at Taos Pueblo where they met and were hosted by several elders. PES was invited to the Taos, New Mexico by Rivers & Birds a Non-profit dedicated to conservation education and biological research that supports sustainable cultural traditions and natural heritage. The local Taos school Peace Jam Club first heard about us through the Peace Jam in Denver and initiated the invitation. The Taos Pueblo Indians opened their homes, hearts and pueblo to receive “Lost Boys” Isaac Khor Bher, Lual Awok, Peter Alier Garang, Peter Madut Garang, John Panrach Mach and “Lost Girl” Akon Ezekiel. They were honored by a special Taos Pueblo ceremony by the Governor, Lt. Governor, War Chief and elders. It was a very rare and special opportunity for the Sudanese youth and Taos Pueblo elders to share common cultural traditions and heritage. Watch a video of the Lost Boys at the pueblo below. |
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11th Annual Shepard Symposium for Social JusticeFrom March 28-30, Executive Director Carol Francis-Rinehart and former intern Emily Broyles traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to bring Project Education Sudan to the 11th Annual Shepard Symposium for Social Justice at the University of Wyoming. This year’s theme was Children’s Hopes for Peace, Our Dreams for Justice. Project Education Sudan presented several times throughout the symposium, including the opening plenary panel where co-founder Isaac Khor Bher’s powerful documentary One Story was the highlight of the session. The conversation about the needs of Southern Sudan continued with the Keynote speaker, Christopher Quinn, who screened his new documentary God Grew Tired of Us at the Shepard Symposium on March 29th. God Grew Tired of Us is a highly acclaimed documentary, which follows several Lost Boys of Sudan from their home in a refugee camp in Kenya throughout the first five years of life in America after they were resettled in the West. Mr. Quinn’s candid and heartfelt remarks about this film clearly illustrated his passion for telling a compelling story and ignited the audience to get more involved in helping reconstruct Southern Sudan. Project Education Sudan was proud to stand next to Mr. Quinn at this important symposium. |
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 Emily Broyles and Carol Francis-Rinehart of PES with “God Grew Tired of Us” director Christopher Quinn. |
The symposium, which began as the Symposium for the Eradication of Social Inequality, was renamed in 2003 to honor the work of the Shepard family and the memory of their son, Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student and social activist. The symposium works as a living reminder of the need for information and dialogue about social justice concerns in the United States and beyond. Project Education Sudan was thrilled with the level of interest and commitment found among the motivated participants and we look forward to future involvement with the Shepard Symposium, the University of Wyoming and the entire Laramie community.
Monday, February 12
Vail Symposium
“One Story”: Memories of a Lost Boy
Isaac Khor Bher and Carol Francis-Rinehart, co-founders of Project Education Sudan
Join us for this special evening, as we present “One Story,” a short documentary that captures the compelling and poignant memories of Isaac Khor Bher, from his dislocation from family in Southern Sudan at the age of six, to walking barefoot for 1,000 miles to an Ethiopian refugee camp with 30,000 other war orphans.
Project Education Sudan Executive Director, Carol Francis-Rinehart, will talk about their shared vision in founding the organization and its mission of building a primary and secondary education infrastructure including schools, teachers and school supplies in communities throughout Southern Sudan.
Friday, February 9, 2007
Crisis and Opportunity: Southern Sudan and Hope for Darfur, presented by Kelly Kinner and Carol Francis-Rinehart.
This presentation will begin with Kelly Kinner, professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Kelly will give an overview of the historical context of the complexities of the crisis in Darfur, beginning with the civil war in Southern Sudan in 1983. Kelly will then address media coverage of the Darfur crisis, addressing both the lack of coverage and the lack of positive developments in the aftermath of the civil war.
Carol Rinehart, Executive Director of Project Education Sudan, will address the impact the civil war had on Southern Sudanese regarding the genocide that took more than 2 million lives. Carol will share the social infrastructure problems, land issues and emotional trauma that the Southern Sudanese have had to endure, and the resiliency in which they are moving forward with rebuilding their lives. She will also address hope for the region, based on her experience with her work in Southern Sudan and her perspective as a volunteer working with African refugees for over 25 years.
February 3, 2007
Silent Auction and Gala Event Dinner
Things are moving quickly for Project Education Sudan! We are delighted to welcome back our dedicated Journey of Hope team, who traveled into Southern Sudan from December 25 to January 16. They have shared with us their moving stories of new hope for education in this war-torn region. The team will be making a complete report on the trip, with a multi-media presentation at the gala. Please come to hear this wonderful story and meet the team in person!
We also have received word that Ambassador Timothy Carney has been asked by the State Department to lead the new reconstruction efforts in Iraq and will be leaving very soon for Baghdad. Tim, we wish you the very best for this challenging new assignment!
We were delighted to learn that his wife, Victoria Butler, will deliver the keynote at the gala. She will talk about the work she and Tim have done for the State Department in Sudan and the prospects for long term peace and stability.
Together with Michael Freeman and Tim, she has written a beautiful illustrated book called Sudan: The Land and the People, and will be presenting to us the slide show from the book that was originally presented to the Royal Geographical Society.
Vicki served as Information Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and headed the office producing educational materials for the United Nations Mission in Cambodia. As a freelance writer, she has worked for Time Magazine, the Toronto Globe and Mail, Voice of America, NBC News, and APTV. Her stories have appeared in numerous magazines around the world including International Wildlife, Reader’s Digest, and Eastern Economic Review. She wrote the text for two illustrated books on Indonesian artists. She has lived and traveled extensively in Sudan.
January 31, 2007
International Night
Sudanese Lost Boy Daniel Gai will speak at Field Elementary’s Internation Night on January 31st. The event also highlights the Kissidugu Percussion and Dance Group. In addition, Field Elementary student will share some of their international connections from their IB units.
December 25, 2006 to January 16, 2007
PES Journey of Hope to Southern Sudan
PES is taking a team to Southern Sudan to assess two boarding schools and to reunite 5 “Lost Boys” with their “found” parents. The dedicated team of 6 Sudanese and 6 Americans includes:
- • Carol Rinehart, Executive Director of PES who will assess teacher/student curricular needs
- • Rich Rinehart, Board Member who will teach accounting systems to our partners in the field, Jonglei Development Society
- • Ray Stranske, Board Member, who is teaching and working alongside the local construction people to introduce and teach a new latex roofing method
- • Martha Riley, Eaglecrest High School AVID teacher and Steering committee member, who will coordinate all teacher/student circular assessment
- • David Ruskay, owner of Positive Energy Company who is installing solar energy on a previously existing school
- • Jeff and Lauren Larsen, who will assess the need for boreholes
- • The University of Denver, Africa Today Associates representative, Frederick Agyeman-duah, has visited Maar working on medical assessment to build a health clinic.
The “Lost Boys of Sudan” who are joining the team are:
- • Isaac Khor Bher, Co-founder/VP of PES, who will introduce and teach the local contractors a new latex roofing method
- • Lual Peter Awok, Solar specialist, who will work on the solar installation
- • Ayuel Yiep Koch, DU Daniels School of Business Accounting Major who will teach accounting methods
- • Panther Abuk Kuol, UC Denver who is the field coordinator for the borehole drilling
- • Abraham John Panchol, RTD Driver who is translator support for curricular assessment
- • Jacob Lueth, translator support
All 5 young men are also being reunited with their families whom they have not seen in over 20 years due to the war in Southern Sudan in the 1980’s-90’s. The team planning has been in full gear since August 2006. We depart December 25, 2006, arriving back in Denver January 16, 2007. The energy, dedication and long hours the team members are putting into this, all volunteer time, is inspiring. We are all very grateful to you, OUR DONORS, for making this possible. We ARE making a difference one village at a time!
November 17, 2006
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November 11, 2006
Building Bridges of Hope – A Benefit for Project Education Sudan
Event Chair – Deb Iole
Join us for a fundraising evening. Meet the Sudanese and American team who will be going to Southern Sudan this December to build and reunify four “Lost Boys.” The short documentary “One Story” will be shown.
October 21st, 2006
Community of Sudanese and American Women (CSAW)
Under the auspices of the Boulder Public Library Foundation CSAW will hold a benefit at the Boulder Public Library for the 26 Sudanese young women and their dependents whom they are helping to resettle in Boulder. They plan to sell the new Sudan note cards and original art work, have traditional food, music, dancing, and story-telling. Please see their website www.csawcolorado.org for on-going information about the organization. We hope you will save this date and join in on the fun.
September 15-17, 2006
PeaceJam
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PeaceJam is an international educational program built around leading Nobel Peace laureates who work personally with youth 14 to 19 years of age to pass on the spirit, skills and wisdom they embody. The goal of PeaceJam is to create young leaders who are committed to positive change in themselves, their local communities and the world.
Join the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchu Tum and 9 other Nobel Peace Prize winners and 3,000 youth from around the world at this extraordinary event.
It is with great pleasure that PES announces that the Lost Boys of Sudan and Project Education Sudan will be represented at this year’s event. Isaac Khor Bher will represent the Lost Boys community in Denver and PES. Students will attend a break out session where they will watch his documentary and be able to ask him questions. Students from Arapahoe High School’s Amnesty International club will staff the PES booth, in order to let participants know how they can help spread awareness about the situations in Southern Sudan.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.peacejam.org.
Art and Artifacts: Paintings of Southern Sudan
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 Emily Broyles and Carol Francis-Rinehart of PES with “God Grew Tired of Us” director Christopher Quinn. |
Project Education Sudan Fundraising Gala
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