Abek Community Development Association

Emergency Plea
30 August, 2009

Dear friends of Abek, We have encountered a severe tragedy in our community as the town of Wernyol has been attacked by a militia force. At least forty community members were indiscriminately murdered, including women and children, and many more have been injured. The majority of the surviving population has fled to the county headquarters of Panyagor.
Click here to read more.

ACDP has prioritized the greatest need to be immediate support in the form of food and mosquito nets to minimize continuing devestation to our community. We plea that you expedite assistance to those in dire need by giving whatever you can online through the website
(click here).

We encourage the Jonglei State Government to quickly aid the return of Wernyol to its people and for the major NGO's to also take action. At the present, ACDP is best positioned to distribute support through its informal network and on-the-ground representative, so please help and thank you.

The ACDP Board

The Abek Community Development Program was formed in November 2005 by the members of the Abek Community residing all over the United States; most of them are Lost Boys and Girls. When war broke out in the Sudan, the Sudanese communities were devastated by war emotionally, socially, educationally, and healthily. The Abek members in Diaspora understood their suffering and formed an association to alleviate the devastation that war brought to them.

The Abek Community Development Program (ACDP) is a nonprofit organization incorporated under articles of the Illinois Secretary of State. ACDP is a 501 (C) 3 organization under Nonprofit Federal law. The Abek Community Development is based at Christ Church, 470 N. Maple Street, Winnetka, IL 60093.

The Abek community in Southern Sudan is geographically located in Bor, Jonglei State with a population of 10,000 according to 1972 statistics.

This web site is dedicated to keeping the Sudanese Abek community united and informed. We will provide information to all members of the Abek Community Development Program, and share our journey with all who are interested.

please click any of the links to the left to learn more

Announcements

Kuek Garang, ACDP President, visited Southern Sudan in April and May 2009 to assess requirements and needs for the Wernyol School Project. He was joined by ACDP Board member Josh Engel. Their trip was filmed for a documentary and premiered in New York City on August 25th:

22 YEARS FROM HOME
One Man's Journey Back To His Family In Sudan
click here to read more

Your help is still needed
Click here for more information, including itinerary, agenda and expenses for which your help is needed.

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The First St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Chicago has chosen the Abek Community Development Program as one of the Organizations to support during lent. Kuek Garang, President of the Abek Community Development Program, made a presentation about the Wernyol School Project in Southern Sudan.

Click on Our Photos
to see pictures from the
December 2007
Abek community meeting
in St. Joseph, MO

ACDP web designer
Barbara Rose
gave the keynote speech
click here to read it

Articles To Read

Kuek Garang became a U.S. citizen in 2008 -
he appeared on the Oprah Show
on election day as afirst time voter
Click here to view a clip of his appearance

Click here to read the February 2007 Newsletter

Click here to read the Chicago Sun Times
article about the ACDP board meeting
held in Chicago (27 to 28 of January)

Other important articles
(click on the title to read them):

SUDAN: Rise in school enrollment
poses funding problem

100, 000 refugees return to southern Sudan

IOM resumes return operation of
Dinka Bor to Jonglei State

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