CRISIS TO CORNFIELDS SUDAN RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMME CDUK NEW YEAR APPEAL
WITH YOUR DONATIONS WE CAN SAVE MANY LIVES IN VERY PRACTICAL & SUSTAINABLE WAYS, READ ON
People in South Sudan are suffering from a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions experiencing awful trauma but we can help to resettle many families so that they live safe and sustainable lives in their own country. See below for video of the proposed resettlement area & hear from Pastor Benjamin.
Refugees face hunger from famine, cholera outbreaks, fuelled by overcrowded living conditions and limited access to clean water and sanitation, all of which threatens to spread as the flood-displaced population grows.
Compassion Direct UK are raising money through their 2025 New Year appeal to give many Sudanese families a safe, sustainable future.
85 miles away from the devastation of floods and famine in Maridi, is a nearby thriving church community with the compassion and will to help their neighbours. CDUK have teamed up with Pastor Benjamin and the 100's of members of their independent church, who wish to help as many of their stricken neighbours as possible, to recover, recuperate and become self-reliant.
Liaising with the disaster area, buses will collect families who choose to relocate and take them to a safe haven where they can start anew. See the video of the resettlement area below
“Our church is a role model for self-reliance in Western South Sudan, said pastor Benjamin, early this year we formed a cooperative association to work on 200 acres of farmland 19 km from the town. The cooperative was formed to enable the eradication of poverty in the area amongst its members, we grow and sell food from the farm to support our community” and “the farm grows corn, cassava, ground nuts and beans all without artificial fertilizers”. “Our area and church do not have the inter-tribal conflicts here even though church members represent many different tribes, they have learned to live together in peace and harmony without tribal clashes”
Our community-based activities ensure that orphans get access to primary education, and they support the disabled, the elderly and widows,” said Pastor Benjamin
As CDUK is run by professional volunteers, the money we raise will be spent where it is needed most and not on costly offices and administration.
We need to supply tents for accommodation, transportation for buses to collect the refugees from the disaster areas, dig more bore holes on the farm land to make sure it is sufficiently productive to support the new comers, buy biogas cookers and solar panels as well as extra seed, food and clothing. We will also require building materials and funding to run training workshops. The Sudanese are a business minded people but help will be available where necessary to rebuild thier lives in the area. Training workshops will be available for
Agricultural practcie
Retail Business
Sewing & Tailoring
Carpentry
Simple Mechanics
Driving
Education will be available at the local school near the site but we will need to employ an extra teacher.
This will be a rolling programme where resettled people willl be encouraged to recover, find work, accommodation and a new future in the surrounding areas. The more you are able to give or raise for us the more people we are able to help.
Your urgent assistance is required to support CDUK in alleviating part of this humanitarian catastrophe with our practical sustainable solutions.
DONATE NOW ON OUR DONATIONS PAGE -Thank you.
If you wish to hold local fundraising events to support this appeal, we can supply leaflets to assist your effort, get in touch with Ros at compassiondirectuk@gmail.com . Please spread the word about thios campaign and post it on social media. Whatever you can do will help.
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
– Buddha
(CDUK are a registered non-denominational UK charity who often work through church groups abroad)
Below, video of land waiting to recieve new residents on the first step to making a new home in the area that welcomes them.
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DONATE £5 A MONTH OR WHATEVER YOU CAN AFFORD TO SAVE 100's OF CHILDRENS LIVES.
We need at least 100 wonderful people to ask their bank to pay Compassion Direct UK £5 a month to help us realise our dream of getting 160 children each year educated & out of the cycle of poverty.
WE URGENTLY NEED TO START THE FOOD PROGRAMME NOT ONLY TO FEED THE CHILDREN BUT THEIR MOTHERS TOO! MANY MOTHERS ARE WALKING UP TO 10K 3 TIMES A WEEK TO LEARN TO SEW SO THAT THEY CAN SELL GARMENTS TO FEED THEIR CHILDREN AND THEMSELVES, BUT THEY ARE DROPPING OUT OF TRAINING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO WEAK TO WALK. WE NEED TO FEED THEM TOO SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE THEIR TRAINING
Help us RESTART A FOOD PROGRAMME AT THE LOCAL CHURCH SCHOOL.
THE PROGRAMME FOR 160 CHILDREN RAN OUT DURING COVID, MANY WERE ORPHANS WHO DEPENDED ON THE DAILY MEAL FOR SURVIVAL. CDUK WANT TO REINSTATE THE PROGRAMME SO THAT CHILDREN EAT AND GET EDUCATED OUT OF POVERTY.
WILL YOU HELP US? While you are reading this children are going hungry and you can help! Families are trapped in a cycle of poverty & mothers are dying of HIV leaving orphans dependent upon goodwill of other poor people in the villages because there are no orphanages.
YOUR DONATION WILL HELP RENEW THE FOOD PROGRAMME.
CDUK is run by professional volunteers, the charity has low overheads, around 90% of your donation will feed the children. With Gift Aid we claim tax & add 25% to your donation. Follow us on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/thisearthisourhome
Ask your bank to make a regular payment to Compassion Direct UK or go to our Donations page to download a Standing Order form to make a donation or you can make a quick donation on your phone, just text CDUK to 70970 to donate £5
Read below to find out more....
Pre-Covid 19 160 children attended school until a USA funded food programme ran out in 2021, now these children starve & receive no education. A free daily meal was a family’s incentive to send children to be educated, it kept children alive & took pressure off the families.
More than 60 of the children attended school free as they were orphans of HIV mothers & depended on the daily meal for life. Since Covid many have died of starvation & there are now more orphans than ever!
Pastor Phillipe ran the school, he told our chairman Ros “the school closed during Covid 19 & when Bishop Enock died & his link with the USA was lost. When the food programme ran out, without the vital incentive of a daily meal students drifted away, if we had funds for food, we could restart this valuable opportunity immediately & the children would return to eat and be educated”.
WHY DID THE FOOD PROGRAMME END?
Before Covid 19 in 2020, our chairman Ros, was researching projects & visited this once thriving church School & community centre with Bishop Enock from the Church of God’s People in Kigali. CDUK decided to help with fundamental self-help projects. In late 2020 we funded two Water Harvesting Tanks so that the school did not have to travel 7 miles for clean water. We also pledged to build a sewing workshop to help mothers with HIV learn a trade to support their children. The mothers were dying without work and the means to support their children. (We completed the Sewing Workshop in 2023 and also hope to provide a well for the village.)
COVID STRUCK
Bishop Enock died suddenly at the age of 51 from throat cancer therefore the link with the USA provider was broken & the food programme ended. Gradually pupils drifted away, the school had died & the children starved. The building stands used for Church services, before it was a thriving community hub, so much potential has been lost!
This was the situation that our chairman discovered in 2023 when she visited to equip & inspect the new sewing cooperative workshop, CDUK had funded, built behind the Church for the use of HIV mothers. The Sewing workshop run by volunteers is thriving! In time many lives will be saved. But the church school needs funds to feed their children while mothers learn!
Please help us to help this village with a proven practical project. DONATE £5 A MONTH. Read on to find out why you should donate to CDUK
WHY donate to CDUK?
If CDUK are able to fund a food programme at the Church School we can help to get more than 200 children out of poverty annually. They will grow to be useful members of their society.
BY finding 100 people who care enough to make a standing order of £5 a month we can support this village by educating & feeding their children. What a legacy! You can be part of this and know that you helped a child to learn & contribute to a better global future.
Helping people to help themselves in their native homes discourages the need to emigrate, so your donation can also help in a small way to prevent dangerous boat crossing over the channel.
Imagine the frustration of seeing your children hungry every day & knowing that you are unable to find work to earn & feed your family!
Education provides stability in life, & can never be taken away. By being well-educated you increases chances of a better future in a competitive world & can contribute to family & community.
Education provides financial security, as well as providing essential skills & can take village children & their families out of the circle of poverty. Education promotes equality, social mobility & allows self-dependency.
By joining our Special 100 wonderful people, and making a Standing Order of £5 a month you will help us to realise our dream of getting many children educated & out of the cycle of poverty. Go to our Donations page to download a Standing Order form.
Thank you for caring enough to wish to help.
Environmentally aware school fundraising teaches pupils to take care of the world on which we all depend whilst having fun and raising money for a good cause.
Students learn more about the big issues that affect us all, develop essential skills that they can transfer to other areas of their lives & the curriculum, consider their own rights & responsibilities, improve their understanding of how charities like CDUK work, build empathy for others & see their actions make a positive difference.
Scroll down to download & print the free pdf file of our fundraising ideas for your school.
A volunteer compiled this guide for us, if you would like to make a quick donation for her work of £5, text CDUK to 70970, thankyou. If you can afford to give a little more please go to our donate page. We can do nothing without your financial support. Thankyou.
If you wish to send any ideas for fun school eco fundraising contact Ros on compassiondirectuk@gmail.com
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Ros is the founder of CDUK and CEO, she believes that we have the power to change the world we live in for the better and is a keen environmentalist.
Trustee
Chris spent time in Africa which inspired her to do all she could to help people to help themselves. She is the main collection point for our Knit for Kids project.
Trustee
Leo is Argentinean and has been with CDUK from the start. He advises us on South American culture and translates Spanish for us and updates our policy's, we can't stop him planting trees!.