Our Values and Visions
Project Education Sudan builds community, self-sufficiency, and hope for the people of Southern Sudan by supporting indigenous organizations that make primary, secondary and adult education available for all. PES emphasizes the inclusion of girls and women in the educational opportunities it promotes. The Board of Directors, staff and volunteers of Project Education Sudan work cooperatively with Sudanese community leaders. We share values regarding the critical importance of education as the source of sustainability, prosperity, health and autonomy in Southern Sudan. We are dedicated to cooperation among people; building trust through relationship; integrity, transparency, commitment to our goals, and respect for others and ourselves. We act as role models for the Sudanese organizations we support.
Our Mission and Its Inspiration
The mission of Project Education Sudan as a US 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization, is to help fund and support indigenous organizations that create educational infrastructure in rural Southern Sudan. A twenty-year civil war between Northern and Southern Sudan demolished the existing educational system in the South. In 2005, Carol Rinehart and former Southern Sudanese “Lost Boy” Isaac Khor Bher founded Project Education Sudan. When Isaac was only five years old, he had been forced to flee the destruction of his village of Konbek and to live for decades in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya before immigrating to the United States. In May of 2005, the year the war in Southern Sudan finally ended, Isaac and Carol journeyed back to Konbek to reunite Isaac with his family. There, they saw the dire educational needs of the villagers. Currently, Project Education Sudan works cooperatively with rural communities to support the building of schools in three villages of Southern Sudanese “Lost Boys” in Bor and Twic East Counties, Jonglei State.
