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When you think of bicycles, you mostly think of recreation, right? Maybe riding it for exercise or something you do for fun with your friend at the weekend. In some ‘greener’ countries, people ride them to work in order to help reduce vehicle emissions that contribute to environmental pollution and global warming. In developing countries, [...]
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Nyaluak Machieng’, 44, thirstily gulps down the cup of water a Christian Mission Aid (CMA) staff at Keew has offered her. She notices many pairs of eyes staring quizzically at her when she drains the cup, and bursts into song and dance. “I’m sending blessings of God onto my beloved motherland,” she sings unashamedly in [...]
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Who would have ever thought that blinking or butting eye lashes could be painful? After all, don’t we often say that something is as easy as blinking? Yet nothing is as easy as butting eyelashes for millions of people in South Sudan, for they are living with eye diseases. Nine-year-old James Deng’ was one such [...]
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Walking down a narrow dusty road, sandwiched by tall green sugarcane plantations, we can sense that the locals preparing for a bumper harvest. This is however not true for Florence Anyango, of Rongo in Kenya. At the foot of the healthy farms lies a stark contrast. Weeds are sprouting across this boma (land) making it [...]
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There was joy and jubilation at Juaibor airstrip in Jonglei State, South Sudan, when 25-year-old Peter Thoan, received a wheelchair. “I thank God for this special gift. I have some feet at last!” exclaimed Peter, wearing a broad smile. The standard three pupil at Juaibor Primary School got maimed by polio, at the age of two. He has since been crawling on the ground. “God has answered my prayer! I have always wished for a wheelchair, and when I heard that I was getting one today, I was so excited, I didn’t sleep a wink last night!” Peter says, drawing much laughter from the youth and children flanking him.
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Imagine being a pupil at a primary school that closes its doors for two weeks every month, as teachers travel hundreds of kilometers to collect their salaries! This must sound ridiculous; yet it is happening in Juaibor Primary School, located in Pajut Village, in Jonglei State, in remote South Sudan.
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Each of them walked for over three hours to attend the graduation and commissioning ceremony held in a large hall at Kehancha Town, but they would ride away on brand new bicycles. For four years, Pastors Robertson Mukabane and Mishael Sirma attended the first Christian Mission Aid (CMA) facilitated; Lay Leaders’ Training (LLT) in Kuria District, Kenya. What they did not know was that their dedication would in the end earn them the desperately needed bicycles.
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Imagine this: From the moment you get out of your bed; a heap rugs on a cold earthen floor , a heavy blanket of urine stench welcomes you. This is because of the broken sewer running outside your 6×6 square foot home. Your stomach growls for some food, since dinner was not available last night. To use a bathroom costs you at least Kshs.2, an amount you could use to buy a slice of bread or two; posing tough choices. And home; home is nothing like where the other kids, in an estate only a mile away, live. Home is a cardboard shanty, and if lucky, maybe a tin roof to shelter you from the rain. School is the place to look forward to as people of goodwill in the neighborhood take you in to teach and feed you on porridge and lunch.
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Who would ever imagine that a country as dry and as famine ridden as South Sudan would find the downpour of rains a curse? Yet the rainy season from May to October is both a blessing and a curse to many residents, every year. While the rains enhance agricultural activities with various food crops thriving, thereby improving food security, other life threatening occurrences are also rife.
Apart from accidents such as drowning, this season sees an increase in the number of life threatening snakes and scorpions. Each year, numerous patients visit Christian Mission Aid (CMA) run health care facilities with snake bites and scorpion stings.
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More than two decades of war denied millions of Sudanese basic amenities, and encumbered development in South Sudan. Juaibor, located in Jonglei State, is a remote area where Christian Mission Aid (CMA) is working to improve livelihoods, enhance self-sufficiency and promote peace through the program, Sustaining Peace and Enhancing Livelihoods in Southern Sudan (SPELS). Some of the core activities under SPELS are: small scale agriculture; fishing; distribution of goats and micro trading. In just under two years of SPELS activities in the area, CMA is already noting great progress. We share a few success stories.
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