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Help Lavina, Thomas and Hillary go to school

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sharon livne Benefitting BECOME (R.A.)

About the Campaign

 

                       

Lavina , Hillary & Thomas , three brothers, came to Israel in 2007 , after fleeing with their parents from the genocide in Sudan . On their way to Israel they went through horrible experiences, separated from their parents, held captive and their baby brother died of thirst in the Sinai desert.

 

 In Israel they found shelter and protection , attended  school, and had lots of friends - for the first time found stability and security, and considered themselves Israelis in every way.

 

On July 2012 they were deported with all South Sudanese from Israel to South Sudan. Arriving to the world`s youngest state, which they had never seen before , was very traumatic. There is a severe  humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, and there was no one to help them there.

 

Half of the population suffers from severe food shortage, the schools are not functioning , no proper healthcare available and infant mortality is among the highest in the world. The family just can`t survive there. Their only chance now is to integrate this wonderful project of returning to school:

The project is led by two Israelis – Att. Leah Forshtadt and Dr. Rami Gudovitch - and is sponsering children who were deported from Israel to South Sudan in a boarding school in Uganda. It has proved itself thanks to private donors from Israel and around the world. Lavina, Thomas and Hillary really wants to join their friends in that amazing project, but they need your help.

 

 Your contribution will allow the three brothers to return to school, gain nutritional security, and smile again.

4,500$ will sponser them this trymester and the whole next school-year.

 

About the project:

Lea Miller-Forshtat and Rami Gudovitch are leading this educational project in South Sudan, in cooperation with BECOME. The project's goal is to continue the education of the children who were deported with their families from Israel to South Sudan in the summer of 2012. Together with the children's parents we decided in a meeting held in Juba in August 2012 to send the children to boarding schools in Uganda. The decision was reached after an in-depth discussion of the various pros and cons - the distance from home and the high price, as well as ideological considerations of supporting the young education system in South Sudan were some of the considerations alongside with considerations regarding the quality of education as well as the nutrition, health and wellness of the children.

Rami Gudovitch and representatives of the parents went to Kampala and visited several boarding schools. At the parents' decision, Trinity Primary School has been chosen as the school which the children will attend.

Today we have 40 children, who until last year studied alongside our children in the Israeli education  system, studying in Trinity school, thanks to the generousity of   Israeli donors, many of whom have chosen to sponsor a child.

Within the forthcoming weeks, we intend to start a parallel e-learning project in Juba, to enable children for whom we do not yet have sufficient funds to send to school, to improve their control of the English language, in an organized manner, twice a week, and assure they get a hot meal with each lesson.

We are working on a plan to build a school in South Sudan, in the Juba vicinity, which will provide educational, occupational, health and nutritional solutions to the deportee community as well as to the greater South Sudanese community. We intend to build a complex containing kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, vocational training center, community center, community kitchen and infirmary.

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