4. “Remix skills for Life Training” $50
Empowering the lives of people is at the core of what we aim to accomplish in Southern Sudan. People are desperate for security and hungry for ideas that will improve their ability to sustain their lives through animal care and agriculture. Throughout the year, villagers are offered the opportunity to attend a week-long seminar that includes strategies on growing area-appropriate food through hands-on demonstrations and practical classroom sessions. There are usually three seminars a year. We expect close to sixty people at our next seminar. $50 will help to provide the life-changing knowledge that is a hand-up and not a hand out, enabling people to become more self-reliant, healthy, and productive through food production and business skills.
5. ”Remix the earth” (Trees) $15
Deforestation is a growing problem in the villages of Africa. Southern Sudan has been especially devastated. Due to the war and the demand for trees for housing, heating, and cooking needs, Southern Sudan is described as “deforestation on a massive scale.” Most people cook and build with wood from local trees but do not replant them. Fuel and shade are becoming scarce in many villages and soil erosion then carries away any hope of growing good crops.
Stephen has built an area enclosed in chicken wire so that no goats or cows can penetrate it. In this area he has planted tree seedlings in tubes. Eventually these trees will grow large enough so that even if a goat stands or leans on it, it will not be knocked over. These trees will be used in the Skills for Life Training seminars to teach villagers and pastors how to plant and grow trees.
You can help grow a dozen trees, shrubs, or hedges in a nursery and provide support to our staff in getting them out to needy families in villages where they are greatly needed. Trees and bushes can be used as a “live fences” to keep goats and cows out of gardens.
6. ”Remix a village” (Water) $15,000
Many areas of Southern Sudan are without reliable or clean water supply. In most cases, drilling a two hundred-foot-deep borehole with rugged hand pump is the best solution and changes the health and future of a village. This will bring clean water to many families in need.
This is lower on the priority list because of several reasons, the first reason being that we already have a borehole on our property. To install a new borehole would mean finding the right location and then making sure there is relationship built with the people of that community. Relationships need to be established so that once the borehole is installed, the people will maintain it and take care of it. We want to make sure that the borehole impacts the most people. Installing a borehole also requires us working with the company that drills the hole. We would be put on a waiting list and deposit half of the full amount. The holes are only drilled during the dry season (May through October). It can take up to a year to have a well completed
7. Where Most Needed! $30 or any amount.
This is where funds are needed the most. Gifts that are entrusted to "Where most Needed" allow us to reach those areas of the work that are pressing and urgent at the time the gift is received. ALL gifts will be used to make a difference in the lives of needy people and are tax deductible - so REMIX with confidence.
