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The aim of everything we do should be to empower
others to stand on their own two feet. Wal and Julia Duany now are in
Sudan, working to create good government in southern Sudan. Please keep
them in your prayers, for this is a daunting challenge.
Thank you for
being a part of SSFI's effort to help the people of southern Sudan.
Isabel
Hogue, Christmas 2006
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South Sudanese Friends
International (SSFI) is committed to grassroots
solutions in southern Sudan. Founded in 1994 by Wal and Julia
Duany, and
based in Bloomington, Indiana, SSFI has spent years working behind the
scenes, bringing people together for talks, and helping them find common
ground for reconciliation. In January, 2000 Wal resigned from SSFI's board
of directors when he assumed a new role as chairman
of the SSLM. You can explore our site by clicking on the
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 NPR
Morning Edition story about building democracy in southern Sudan, including
a few words from Julia Duany.
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SSFI's shipment of supplies
was delivered in southern Sudan, November, 2006.
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The
Sudanese North American Diaspora Database lists
opportunities for volunteer advisors.
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Please keep southern Sudan in your prayers, following the
death of vice-President John Garang in a helicopter crash on August 1,
2005.
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Sudan's new constitution took effect July
9, 2005.
- GOS and SPLM/A signed the peace agreement on
January 9, 2005.
- SSFI's
statement of support for the people of Darfur.
- Sudan Awareness events
took place in
Bloomington, Indiana, October 29-30, 2004.
- Julia was in Bangkok, Thailand in
early October, 2004, participating in issue committee 22 of the Lausanne
2004 Forum for World Evangelization. Issue 22 was "Confronting
racial, tribal and ethnic conflict within the Christian community."
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PBS' P.O.V.
series profiled two of Sudan's "Lost Boys". September, 2004.
- 2003 Spirit of
Raoul Wallenberg award goes to Rev. Haruun Ruun, executive
secretary of the New Sudan Council of Churches.
- On October 18, 2003, five
Sudanese pastors from Kakuma refugee camp graduated from Calvary
Ministries Bible College. They have returned to Kakuma to
minister to churches there and inside southern Sudan.
 Common
Sense 3 - SSLM's Call for South-South dialog and sustainable
peace
in south Sudan (this is a PDF file - to view it you will need
Adobe Reader, also known as Acrobat Reader - click the Get Adobe
Reader icon for a free download) -
History of People-to-People Peacemaking in
southern Sudan
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Julia Duany's book is available
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SSFI's
seed project - an easy but powerful way to help
- The Organization for Relief and Community Development
(ORCD). ORCD does not yet have its own web site,
but SSFI believes that its work should be better known. So we are making some of
its material available on our site.
- The "Lost
Boys" are gradually getting more attention in the US
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Believers Together, with Glad and Sincere
Hearts - Special Needs of Sudanese Girls. Julia Duany's remarks at
the National Conference on Refugee Foster Care, May 31 - June 2, 2001,
in Baltimore, MD.
- Be a peace-builder: you can
support SSFI's Women Working Together program.
- Grassroots peacemaking and self-reliant living - proposals from SSFI:
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