Your support of UOCO helps the staff keep our school community strong. I wouldn’t be volunteering with UpperNile Orphans Care if I had not gone, years ago, to teach in that rural South Sudanese village and fallen…
Hello, all, I hope you are well and feeling blessed. It’s Father’s Day weekend; your kindness blesses these very vulnerable kids. His name is Riek. This newest student at our residential school is 11, and…
Hello, kind soul, We hope you are well. Yes, there is much going on in the world. But think about it: Most of it is good in the day-to-day where people are kind to strangers, and the…
Sweet news. Amid the horrors going on in South Sudan, with massacres and attacks happening daily, the kids at our residential Hand of Hope Community School have brand-new 100% cotton T-shirts that say “Hope Breathes…
Simple request. Giving Tuesday is coming up, a lovely focus on building peace with justice (I’ll be in the Holy Land). The school staff in our South Sudan orphanage accepts greatly reduced pay so that the…
With everything going on here in the USA, it’s hard to pay attention to what’s going on in Sudan and South Sudan. But the United Nations has labeled this the greatest humanitarian disaster happening on…
Here are some of our residents (with some local day students welcomed for classes) taking final exams in May—in a war zone. How tragic that any child, anywhere, must live and study amidst such conflict; sadly, this…
Well, look at this wonderful kid with his new prosthetic leg! Some of you know this story! I went to South Sudan in 2013 to teach English (after they gained independence in 2011), then again…