Sick people from South Sudan are facing lack of food and shelter, insecurity, and hunger in Khartoum, Nairobi, and Kampala.

There were many things to see but I focused my eyes on the sick people and the places they live. There were many sounds to hear but I focused on the cries of the people who grieved for the love ones they lost. There were many things to know but all I carred was that many people who lacked health services in South Sudan including my own people travelled to the big cities in north Sudan or Kenya or Uganda to seek for the medical treatments. As a witness, allow me to be a messenger that will educate the world about what exactly happening in my African remote area, Alal. What happening is big for the people to understand but in what follows,I would like to make it as simple as to be understood.

The unlucky one died without treatment and those who got help always travelled to Nairobi Kampala or Khartoum, one of the fewer places for some people to get the treatment. From my experiences, renting an apartment in Khartoum or Nairobi or Kampala is very expensive, especially, for the poor people like those of Alal Community. Even though the minimum of rent is about $150.00 per a month, someone who have no money can not afford it. Nowadays, patients from the Alal Community who went to the big cities are either have no places to stay or live in new apartments (like this one above) that has no wall, windows and doors. Although I rented the apartment for my mother to stay when she was in Northern Sudan, many others lived in no-windows-no-doors apartments and they faced/are facing insecurity, cool during the Winter, hate during the Summer, hunger and lack of water for bath and drink.

With that in mind, the only solution for the Alal Community people and all other people from South Sudan who are facing the same situation, is to build permanent clinics and create job for them so that they can live and do their treatment at home in South Sudan.

DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION

Welcome to Alal Community Project Blog
This site is focusing on raising awareness and encourage people of goodwill to finacially support Alal Community Project (ACP) improve lives of people in Twic County (TC) in northren Warrap State, South Sudan. ACP goal is to imrove health services and lives not only in TC but also in the neighboring communities.

TC is between the Kiir River in North (Alal Bunch in Abyei) and the Lol River in South (TC), but also extended to far East (Alal Makuach) and West (Alal Machar-Akoon). It is one of the devastated areas in Bhar El Ghazel region because of the post-civil war that went on for over two decades in the Sudan. it lost everything and never recovered and rebuilt in all ways. Moreover, the people of TC have nowhere to go for medical treatment rather than taking their patients to Northern Sudan or Kenya or Uganda. Not only that, they have no schools to educate their children for the future or clean water for drinking.

Although the world aid organizations reached out and aided in the greater Southern Sudan since the peace was signed between the government of Sudan and the Southern Sudan freedom fighters-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement three years ago, TC still has no improvement and development. When I went to the Sudan in the end of 2007, one thing I had learned was that the people of TC needed my help. There were lots of sick people who desperately wanted assistance but my only answer to them was tears in my eyes and long prayers to God who created all people on Earth. One of the local elders told me that [they only get treatments in North Sudan or Uganda or Kenya but sometimes they stay without getting treatment and that is why many of them are sick or dead]. In the end of my trip, I forced myself to go while leaving everyone with their eyes on my back. I wanted to help but had nothing in my pocket to give.

TC is the land of over two hundred thousand people in Warrap State and has a history that many people should know: previously, these nomadic people were relying on their farming and cows, and their living standard was well and happy. But that happiness turned to nightmare and grief when the civil war of Sudan broke out in the 1980s. For, their territory was used as a combat or war zone for over years, their houses were burned down, their local pools for clean water were left contaminated, and all properties including cows were taken away by the enemy. Thus, my people were left with nothing but the core. Nowadays, many of its natives are living in a terrible condition in the area, and the lucky ones are lingering in diasporas in Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA.

ACP Mission Statement
ACP mission is to improve health services in Warrap State, South Sudan

ACP Goal
To encourage people of goodwill in the USA and beyond to financially support ACP achieve its mission in South Sudan. The ACP is also encouraging the donors to donate medical and other equipment that are necessary for a new clinic such as generator, microscope, water pumb and computer.

ACP Objectives
ACP objectives are to build a clinic that will save many women and children of 6 Payams that lack medical services in TC in northern Warrap State. In additon, the ACP will train local educators to work closely with the ACP stuffs, will create and build strong connection with other aid agencies, and will span its services to help hundreds of sick people in the neighboring communities namely Abyei and Gogrial.

The clinic will be the only back-bone that will provide health services for both the returnees who came from Kenya, Uganda, and North Sudan to resettle in TC, Abyei, or even Warrap State as awhole. In addition, the ACP is also aiming to establish clean water throughout territories that lack water pumps within and beyond the borders of TC. With your kindness and generosity, the people of TC will firmly recover by having an access to health services that will rescue many people who are suffering from malaria, cholera, meningitis, and other critical diseases in South Sudan.

-Requirements

Some of the things that are required in order for the ACP to be succeeded in helping people in South Sudan is to raise over $60,000 to do the followings:

a/In term of Alal Clinic that will save hundreds of lives, we need

• Medical equipment including labratory equipment and medicines for malaria, meningitis, and other common diseases found in South Sudan.
• A clinic that has rooms for women to give birth, sick people to be admitted, visitors to wait (waiting room), drugs/medicines to be stored, and an office for the stuff members.
• A generator that will provide power for the for the clinic in the daily basis
• Training and recruiting of doctors/nurses and workers to do the job.

b/In term of clean water, we need

• Water pumps that will be installed to provide clean water for both Alal Clinic and the community as large.

-Responsibilities

The ACP, under supervision of Village Help For South Sudan, is responsible for everything including when and how the work will be operated in South Sudan. That is maintaining and securing records and properties of the project, making reports on the project progress, and encouraging local authorities to involve. With that in mind, the Program Manager (PM) will form a committee that will work side-by-side with the Field Manager (FM) who will oversee the overall works upon the absent of the PM.