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Infighting among Misseriya tribe kills 150 in West Kordofan
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July 3, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The Misseriya tribe disclosed that 150 of its members were killed and another 100 injured in fighting that broke out between two of its clans in West Kordofan state.
Misseriya community people from the village of Goleh of Abyei on 14 November 2006 (Photo UN)A preliminary count showed that 80 people were killed in renewed clashes between Awlad Omran and al-Zyoud clans last Saturday.
Newspaper reports said at the time that a dispute erupted between the two parties and referred to an incident last month in which 40 from both sides were killed.
A local official attributed the clashes to the proliferation of arms among tribesmen. He said that the state government sent military reinforcements from the army and police to contain the situation.
Mohammad Omar al-Ansari, a leading Misseriya figure, told the government sponsored Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website on Thursday that clashes between the two clans lasted a full day because of a dispute over land near the oilfields.
He claimed that the conflict took place with the help of some outlaws from the two tribes and some of the South Sudan armed tribesmen, stressing that the Misseriya will sit down with the warring parties to press them to sign a treaty of peaceful coexistence.
This week authorities in West Kordofan and East Darfur announced the deployment of troops to separate areas of Hamar and Ma’alia tribes following renewed fighting between the two ethnic groups which claimed lives of 75 people.
Last May, 28 people were killed in battles between the Hamar and Ma’alia tribes in East Darfur and West Kordofan according to tribal leaders at the time.
The United Nations confirmed that 38 people were killed last December in West Kordofan as a result of clashes between the two groups because of a dispute over the right to pasture.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) , some of the 38,000 displaced people in West Kordofan have fled recent fighting between the Hamar and Ma’alia tribes in North and East Darfur in March and April.
Tribal fighting has become the major source of insecurity in Darfur since the beginning of last year, forcing over 300,000 people to flee their homes.
Last year, Sudan’s president, Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, warned against tribal strife in some areas of the country, noting the country is facing challenges that need the cooperation of all of its people.
“The tribal conflicts in a number of Sudan’s areas constitute the biggest threat to the country,” Bashir said when addressing a meeting of the Shura (consultative) Council of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
Several officials in Darfur including the head of the regional authority, Tijani El-Sissi, also said that tribal violence is among the biggest threats to ongoing efforts to implement a peace document signed by two former rebel groups in the region.
(ST)
venerdì 4 luglio 2014
giovedì 3 luglio 2014
cruzione e rubbaria!!!
Khartoum government to open the border with South Sudan deal to pass one billion dollars for gasoline Saleh Abdullah al-Bashir and others
07-02-2014 07:22 PM
Alrakubh Khartoum - Juba
Successful businessman, "Ayman al-safe" in arranging a deal to export gasoline to the south under the partnership has between each of the company "Chemma" which owned by a relative of President Sylvakir on the one hand and each of Abdullah al-Bashir and Abdullah Jirari and Babacar Hamid (dealer Petroleum resident in Dubai and relatives President) on the other hand, has initiated the partnership in the implementation where the transaction has already reached 23 tankers loaded with jazz to the region, "Falaj". The value of the deal, which will be delivered in batches sum of one billion U.S. dollars.
07-02-2014 07:22 PM
Alrakubh Khartoum - Juba
Successful businessman, "Ayman al-safe" in arranging a deal to export gasoline to the south under the partnership has between each of the company "Chemma" which owned by a relative of President Sylvakir on the one hand and each of Abdullah al-Bashir and Abdullah Jirari and Babacar Hamid (dealer Petroleum resident in Dubai and relatives President) on the other hand, has initiated the partnership in the implementation where the transaction has already reached 23 tankers loaded with jazz to the region, "Falaj". The value of the deal, which will be delivered in batches sum of one billion U.S. dollars.
Immigration and the slave traders.
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Watch a video of the story of Yasser Ibrahim Harun Yahya - Sudanese (Darfur)
Worst kinds of torture that have not heard of human beings in this world
07-03-2014 09:46 AM
Anwar Adam
Amra 27 years old, arrived in Cairo legally by river boats from Sudan to Egypt until he arrived at Cairo. Learn some of Sudanese living in Egypt and who are hunting down victims for the benefit of gangs trafficking in human beings and then get a commission, which they Brokers humans living in Egypt are illegal and considered agriculture major traffickers They are delivering victim to these criminals to do the way vile deceiving the poor who are looking for work and a better life.
Unfortunately for this poor guy that took place in the hands of the gang, unfortunately, they are of his own people and the people of the town, who Oanmoh it will work in place and gets a big salary by living a decent life.
I have the sincerity of this poor poor children of the town who wear a mask until the Secretariat sign this young man, whose honesty and I think that has opened the doors of his livelihood.
Progress of young men to (Yasser Ibrahim) and said to him, Are you looking for work? He replied without hesitation ... Yes I want to get a job and I'm here in Egypt in order to create jobs and much joy this poor guy happy talk that he was told, and take (Yasser) dreams of new life, and rode with them without hesitation and started the car that took him to area, about 100 km from Cairo.
The two men hand over the victim's new (Yasser) and received their share of the commission and returned to Cairo to seek a new victim or victims of perhaps greater numbers swell up their pocket money Mosque.
Wait Yasser in a house of mud in the middle of a farm until they reached the truck light and asked (Yasser) be accompanied in the car and sit in the back where they put the cover over the car and asked him not to move and it does not make the sound was placed under the feet and hands so as not to move , and go by the more than 250 km without stopping distance was great going on unpaved roads used by human traffickers to reach Bdaathm of the victims to the last leg of a areas where there are dozens, hundreds of victims and called stores.
Upon arrival Yasser to this place, he began to smell the blood, everything around him indicates that he was in this place is like a graveyard in the empty desert. The three young adults ranging in age from fifteen and sixteen and dragged Yasser out of the car like the carcass of one of his legs until he fell on his face and did not content with that, but they continued to dragged on the ground for a distance of twenty meters up and put him in an underground chamber has a lid railing tight and seem to have been used to store settings like the water, but the wrath of God on these criminals make the water dry out from this place.
When it (Yasser to this dark room, rub his body with other objects and signed over them, and found large numbers of Eritreans and Sudanese, more than 24 in this dark room, gloomy, and everyone is suffering from fatigue and pain due to torture in addition to high temperature.
After several days of accommodation in this dark room, which seem like a cemetery, rotate the torture of several young people, each task only is torture, came in two cars Pickup great and took us to a place nearby, which is a house in a place surrounded by walls and by the inside three rooms dark and in every room spun wooden attic kink of iron, and a man came seems attic wealth and driving a modern car and wearing a robe and white told us you today call your families in Eritrea and Sudan, all of you convert ten thousand dollars, and did not preclude the funds will be tortured and killed.
They gave us a phone carries numbers phone lines Asraúlah, and you connect to one of my relatives because my parents do not have a phone, we live in a poor village and there are no phone numbers floor in the villages, and the relatives to collect some money from philanthropists and mosques and from relatives and sold my family cow that Imlkoha ass who pass it every day reap what and collect only what fills their mouths from hunger, and turned the amount after three months, which is four thousand dollars and could not complete the agreed upon amount.
Not seen these criminals twice, and increased in the torture and every day they open the phone to hear my relatives voice of my cry during torture, Canon put plastic liquefied every part of my body and beat me violently mercilessly and not pity, and do not give me water or food only a little, and increased forms torture has increased with the suffering of my family and my relatives, where they will come from the rest of the money? We have collected and Tzlvo of all the people of the village and sold everything they have left and did not have anything. We have entered the month of Ramadan and I said to myself maybe Arahmona and leave me, but they do not know the month of Ramadan and do not have any religion, so they do not fear God, they are not Muslims and are not even human beings, objects of demons in human form.
The torture lasted throughout the month of Ramadan and what it was last year Ait of torture.
Watch a video of the story of Yasser Ibrahim Harun Yahya - Sudanese (Darfur)
Worst kinds of torture that have not heard of human beings in this world
07-03-2014 09:46 AM
Anwar Adam
Amra 27 years old, arrived in Cairo legally by river boats from Sudan to Egypt until he arrived at Cairo. Learn some of Sudanese living in Egypt and who are hunting down victims for the benefit of gangs trafficking in human beings and then get a commission, which they Brokers humans living in Egypt are illegal and considered agriculture major traffickers They are delivering victim to these criminals to do the way vile deceiving the poor who are looking for work and a better life.
Unfortunately for this poor guy that took place in the hands of the gang, unfortunately, they are of his own people and the people of the town, who Oanmoh it will work in place and gets a big salary by living a decent life.
I have the sincerity of this poor poor children of the town who wear a mask until the Secretariat sign this young man, whose honesty and I think that has opened the doors of his livelihood.
Progress of young men to (Yasser Ibrahim) and said to him, Are you looking for work? He replied without hesitation ... Yes I want to get a job and I'm here in Egypt in order to create jobs and much joy this poor guy happy talk that he was told, and take (Yasser) dreams of new life, and rode with them without hesitation and started the car that took him to area, about 100 km from Cairo.
The two men hand over the victim's new (Yasser) and received their share of the commission and returned to Cairo to seek a new victim or victims of perhaps greater numbers swell up their pocket money Mosque.
Wait Yasser in a house of mud in the middle of a farm until they reached the truck light and asked (Yasser) be accompanied in the car and sit in the back where they put the cover over the car and asked him not to move and it does not make the sound was placed under the feet and hands so as not to move , and go by the more than 250 km without stopping distance was great going on unpaved roads used by human traffickers to reach Bdaathm of the victims to the last leg of a areas where there are dozens, hundreds of victims and called stores.
Upon arrival Yasser to this place, he began to smell the blood, everything around him indicates that he was in this place is like a graveyard in the empty desert. The three young adults ranging in age from fifteen and sixteen and dragged Yasser out of the car like the carcass of one of his legs until he fell on his face and did not content with that, but they continued to dragged on the ground for a distance of twenty meters up and put him in an underground chamber has a lid railing tight and seem to have been used to store settings like the water, but the wrath of God on these criminals make the water dry out from this place.
When it (Yasser to this dark room, rub his body with other objects and signed over them, and found large numbers of Eritreans and Sudanese, more than 24 in this dark room, gloomy, and everyone is suffering from fatigue and pain due to torture in addition to high temperature.
After several days of accommodation in this dark room, which seem like a cemetery, rotate the torture of several young people, each task only is torture, came in two cars Pickup great and took us to a place nearby, which is a house in a place surrounded by walls and by the inside three rooms dark and in every room spun wooden attic kink of iron, and a man came seems attic wealth and driving a modern car and wearing a robe and white told us you today call your families in Eritrea and Sudan, all of you convert ten thousand dollars, and did not preclude the funds will be tortured and killed.
They gave us a phone carries numbers phone lines Asraúlah, and you connect to one of my relatives because my parents do not have a phone, we live in a poor village and there are no phone numbers floor in the villages, and the relatives to collect some money from philanthropists and mosques and from relatives and sold my family cow that Imlkoha ass who pass it every day reap what and collect only what fills their mouths from hunger, and turned the amount after three months, which is four thousand dollars and could not complete the agreed upon amount.
Not seen these criminals twice, and increased in the torture and every day they open the phone to hear my relatives voice of my cry during torture, Canon put plastic liquefied every part of my body and beat me violently mercilessly and not pity, and do not give me water or food only a little, and increased forms torture has increased with the suffering of my family and my relatives, where they will come from the rest of the money? We have collected and Tzlvo of all the people of the village and sold everything they have left and did not have anything. We have entered the month of Ramadan and I said to myself maybe Arahmona and leave me, but they do not know the month of Ramadan and do not have any religion, so they do not fear God, they are not Muslims and are not even human beings, objects of demons in human form.
The torture lasted throughout the month of Ramadan and what it was last year Ait of torture.
mercoledì 2 luglio 2014
committed to dialogue!!!!
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NEWS WEDNESDAY 2 JULY 2014
Sudan’s NUP leader still committed to national dialogue: official
July 1, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese presidential assistant Ibrahim Ghandour has underscored that the leader of the National Umma Party (NUP), al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, is remains fully committed to the national dialogue process, saying he only wants further contact among participants.
At the end of January, Bashir launched the national dialogue initiative aimed at holding a comprehensive conference on a new constitution and ways to end the armed conflicts in the Two Areas and Darfur. He also issued a number of presidential decrees to ensure freedom of expression, press freedom and creating a conducive environment for this political process.
However, the National Umma Party (NUP) and the Reform Now Party (RNP) suspended participation in the dialogue process in protest against al-Mahdi’s arrest last month and what they said was a government crackdown on political and media liberties.
Ghandour, told reporters following a meeting of the National Congress Party (NCP) youths secretariat on Tuesday that al-Mahdi did not mention at any point in time his intention to leave the dialogue.
Al-Mahdi on Thursday launched a new dialogue initiative which seeks to unite all Sudanese forces including the rebel alliance of the Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) besides asking the international community to lift economic sanctions and cancel foreign debts in return for achieving comprehensive peace and democratic transformation.
The presidential assistant scoffed at accusations by opposition parties that the NCP disavowed the national dialogue, accusing them of abandoning dialogue and affirming his party’s commitment to the process.
He accused unnamed two opposition parties within the national dialogue mechanism of being hesitant towards the dialogue process, expressing his party’s readiness to immediately begin the meetings of the mechanism.
The NUP suggested that it intends to set new conditions in order to resume participation in the national dialogue stressing that this process cannot start from the point where it stopped prior to the arrest of its leader al-Sadiq al-Mahdi.
The RNP on the other hand said that a new thesis of dialogue must replace the current one.
The dialogue mechanism, which is headed by president Bashir, includes seven members from the government side and an equal number from the opposition. The mechanism work was suspended following arrest of al-Mahdi on May 17th.
GOVERNMENT READY FOR NEGOTIATIONS
Meanwhile, Ghandour underscored that the government is ready to engage in negotiations with the rebel Sudanese People’s Liberations Movement/North (SPLM-N) on the Two Areas if it receive an invitation from African Union (AU) mediation team.
“We are waiting for the invitation and we are ready to engage in the negotiations anytime and anywhere”, he said.
He doubted the SPLM-N intention to engage in the negotiations, saying the other side is still reluctant to attend.
The border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile state have been the scene of violent conflict since 2011 when the SPLM-N launched an insurgency against the Khartoum regime.
Peace talks between the two parties remain deadlocked after they failed to reach a common ground for negotiations. While the government says it is only willing to discuss the conflict in the Two Areas, the SPLM-N is demanding a comprehensive peace process.
(ST)
NEWS WEDNESDAY 2 JULY 2014
Sudan’s NUP leader still committed to national dialogue: official
July 1, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese presidential assistant Ibrahim Ghandour has underscored that the leader of the National Umma Party (NUP), al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, is remains fully committed to the national dialogue process, saying he only wants further contact among participants.
At the end of January, Bashir launched the national dialogue initiative aimed at holding a comprehensive conference on a new constitution and ways to end the armed conflicts in the Two Areas and Darfur. He also issued a number of presidential decrees to ensure freedom of expression, press freedom and creating a conducive environment for this political process.
However, the National Umma Party (NUP) and the Reform Now Party (RNP) suspended participation in the dialogue process in protest against al-Mahdi’s arrest last month and what they said was a government crackdown on political and media liberties.
Ghandour, told reporters following a meeting of the National Congress Party (NCP) youths secretariat on Tuesday that al-Mahdi did not mention at any point in time his intention to leave the dialogue.
Al-Mahdi on Thursday launched a new dialogue initiative which seeks to unite all Sudanese forces including the rebel alliance of the Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) besides asking the international community to lift economic sanctions and cancel foreign debts in return for achieving comprehensive peace and democratic transformation.
The presidential assistant scoffed at accusations by opposition parties that the NCP disavowed the national dialogue, accusing them of abandoning dialogue and affirming his party’s commitment to the process.
He accused unnamed two opposition parties within the national dialogue mechanism of being hesitant towards the dialogue process, expressing his party’s readiness to immediately begin the meetings of the mechanism.
The NUP suggested that it intends to set new conditions in order to resume participation in the national dialogue stressing that this process cannot start from the point where it stopped prior to the arrest of its leader al-Sadiq al-Mahdi.
The RNP on the other hand said that a new thesis of dialogue must replace the current one.
The dialogue mechanism, which is headed by president Bashir, includes seven members from the government side and an equal number from the opposition. The mechanism work was suspended following arrest of al-Mahdi on May 17th.
GOVERNMENT READY FOR NEGOTIATIONS
Meanwhile, Ghandour underscored that the government is ready to engage in negotiations with the rebel Sudanese People’s Liberations Movement/North (SPLM-N) on the Two Areas if it receive an invitation from African Union (AU) mediation team.
“We are waiting for the invitation and we are ready to engage in the negotiations anytime and anywhere”, he said.
He doubted the SPLM-N intention to engage in the negotiations, saying the other side is still reluctant to attend.
The border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile state have been the scene of violent conflict since 2011 when the SPLM-N launched an insurgency against the Khartoum regime.
Peace talks between the two parties remain deadlocked after they failed to reach a common ground for negotiations. While the government says it is only willing to discuss the conflict in the Two Areas, the SPLM-N is demanding a comprehensive peace process.
(ST)
martedì 1 luglio 2014
Information from News and tribune.
Sellersburg woman turns cards into candy boxes
By AMANDA BEAM, News and Tribune : June 29, 2014
SELLERSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Sellersburg resident Joyce Hall needs a few good cards.
Well, more than that, perhaps, if she hopes to keep up the pace she has been maintaining these past three years.
Since 2011, Hall has converted more than 8,000 used greeting cards into quaint boxes filled with candy. Most of the repurposed boxes go to area nursing homes around the holidays.
Each resident receives his or her own present, normally delivered by the recreational director. Due to her health, the 75-year-old is no longer able to hand them out personally.
"The older people are the forgotten people. They are so lonely," she told the News and Tribune (http://bit.ly/1iJBHmS). "I don't get to see the people who get them, but the staff in the nursing homes are so nice. They are very grateful and thankful they're getting something individual."
Wanting to give back to the community, Hall got the idea from a meeting of the Clark County Homemaker's Club. Always creative, she planned to make the craft herself. Plus, it would help keep her busy at home, something she enjoyed. But how would she find so many used greeting cards?
Actually, this very paper proved to be the answer.
To get started, Hall placed a free ad in the New Albany Tribune asking for old cards that she could recycle. All names would and still continue to be whited out of any donations. Listing her phone number, she anticipated a couple of calls.
What happened next astonished her. More than 34 people phoned Hall's home after seeing the ad. In all, the community sent 5,000 cards to be used for her project. It would seem people grow a little attached to their old cards. A couple of the submissions even dated back to the 1920s.
After three years, she's only now beginning to run low.
"I hate to get rid of pretty Christmas cards," Hall said. "And I think that everybody just puts them back and they just brew in their house. When they saw somebody was going to recycle them, they just said, 'Well I need to get rid of them anyway.'"
While a few Easter, birthday and all occasion cards do get donated, most of those given have been Christmas cards. Filled with snow-covered landscapes, these greetings came in quite handy this past May when Hall's boxes found their way halfway across the globe to a very different destination — a small village in the heart of Africa.
Louisville resident Tracey Clayton knew she wanted to go on a mission trip, she just didn't know exactly where. Through the Internet, she found her calling on an 18-day trip to the African nation of South Sudan.
As a united Sudan, a bitter civil war ravaged the country for more than 20 years. Even after the South gained independence in 2011, violence and armed conflict still exist. Tensions flared between factions only weeks before Clayton embarked on her 24-hour flight followed by a 7-hour drive to the South Sudanese town of Maridi.
Stacked like nesting dolls in her backpack, Hall's friend Clayton also transported around 40 of the boxes to be given out to local children. It had always been Hall's dream to go on a mission trip to a faraway land. But her body will no longer allow her to achieve that goal.
"That would be my big dream, but I've waited too long now. But I have someone doing it," Hall said.
Instead, she cut and folded the cards, ultimately transforming them into trinkets to make the children's days just a little bit brighter.
"You do it just so they know someone is remembering them and taking the time to make one little thing that goes in their hands," Hall said. "I just wish I could send them all over there because I know they've never seen anything like them."
While helping a local pastor plant a new church in the region and strengthen two others, Clayton passed out the boxes to the children who followed her around the town. Considering most hadn't ever experienced snow, they particularly liked the winter scenes.
"The boxes were more valuable than the candy," Clayton said.
Although many in the area live in poverty, Clayton sees the end of hostilities as a rebirth for long war-torn country. The pastor she traveled there with wanted Americans to know that his country has the resources to prosper, they just need knowledge and training.
"Right now this is an opportunity. It's an opportunity for this country to establish itself. Who are they going to be?" she said.
In the future, she hopes to return to the town and work to provide more opportunities for South Sudanese women.
"If you can teach a woman to raise a child a little differently, to think a little different, in just a couple of generations you can change a country," she said. "And if you raise that child in love and loving others, then things change."
Hall also continues to make boxes from used cards for both nursing home residents and the children of Sudan. For those looking to donate, both the New Albany and Jeffersonville offices of the News and Tribune will be accepting old greeting cards on her behalf. For questions on Hall's project, please phone her at 812-246-5315.
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Information from: News and Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind., http://www.newsandtribune.com
This is an AP Member Exchange shared by the News and Tribune.
By AMANDA BEAM, News and Tribune : June 29, 2014
SELLERSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Sellersburg resident Joyce Hall needs a few good cards.
Well, more than that, perhaps, if she hopes to keep up the pace she has been maintaining these past three years.
Since 2011, Hall has converted more than 8,000 used greeting cards into quaint boxes filled with candy. Most of the repurposed boxes go to area nursing homes around the holidays.
Each resident receives his or her own present, normally delivered by the recreational director. Due to her health, the 75-year-old is no longer able to hand them out personally.
"The older people are the forgotten people. They are so lonely," she told the News and Tribune (http://bit.ly/1iJBHmS). "I don't get to see the people who get them, but the staff in the nursing homes are so nice. They are very grateful and thankful they're getting something individual."
Wanting to give back to the community, Hall got the idea from a meeting of the Clark County Homemaker's Club. Always creative, she planned to make the craft herself. Plus, it would help keep her busy at home, something she enjoyed. But how would she find so many used greeting cards?
Actually, this very paper proved to be the answer.
To get started, Hall placed a free ad in the New Albany Tribune asking for old cards that she could recycle. All names would and still continue to be whited out of any donations. Listing her phone number, she anticipated a couple of calls.
What happened next astonished her. More than 34 people phoned Hall's home after seeing the ad. In all, the community sent 5,000 cards to be used for her project. It would seem people grow a little attached to their old cards. A couple of the submissions even dated back to the 1920s.
After three years, she's only now beginning to run low.
"I hate to get rid of pretty Christmas cards," Hall said. "And I think that everybody just puts them back and they just brew in their house. When they saw somebody was going to recycle them, they just said, 'Well I need to get rid of them anyway.'"
While a few Easter, birthday and all occasion cards do get donated, most of those given have been Christmas cards. Filled with snow-covered landscapes, these greetings came in quite handy this past May when Hall's boxes found their way halfway across the globe to a very different destination — a small village in the heart of Africa.
Louisville resident Tracey Clayton knew she wanted to go on a mission trip, she just didn't know exactly where. Through the Internet, she found her calling on an 18-day trip to the African nation of South Sudan.
As a united Sudan, a bitter civil war ravaged the country for more than 20 years. Even after the South gained independence in 2011, violence and armed conflict still exist. Tensions flared between factions only weeks before Clayton embarked on her 24-hour flight followed by a 7-hour drive to the South Sudanese town of Maridi.
Stacked like nesting dolls in her backpack, Hall's friend Clayton also transported around 40 of the boxes to be given out to local children. It had always been Hall's dream to go on a mission trip to a faraway land. But her body will no longer allow her to achieve that goal.
"That would be my big dream, but I've waited too long now. But I have someone doing it," Hall said.
Instead, she cut and folded the cards, ultimately transforming them into trinkets to make the children's days just a little bit brighter.
"You do it just so they know someone is remembering them and taking the time to make one little thing that goes in their hands," Hall said. "I just wish I could send them all over there because I know they've never seen anything like them."
While helping a local pastor plant a new church in the region and strengthen two others, Clayton passed out the boxes to the children who followed her around the town. Considering most hadn't ever experienced snow, they particularly liked the winter scenes.
"The boxes were more valuable than the candy," Clayton said.
Although many in the area live in poverty, Clayton sees the end of hostilities as a rebirth for long war-torn country. The pastor she traveled there with wanted Americans to know that his country has the resources to prosper, they just need knowledge and training.
"Right now this is an opportunity. It's an opportunity for this country to establish itself. Who are they going to be?" she said.
In the future, she hopes to return to the town and work to provide more opportunities for South Sudanese women.
"If you can teach a woman to raise a child a little differently, to think a little different, in just a couple of generations you can change a country," she said. "And if you raise that child in love and loving others, then things change."
Hall also continues to make boxes from used cards for both nursing home residents and the children of Sudan. For those looking to donate, both the New Albany and Jeffersonville offices of the News and Tribune will be accepting old greeting cards on her behalf. For questions on Hall's project, please phone her at 812-246-5315.
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Information from: News and Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind., http://www.newsandtribune.com
This is an AP Member Exchange shared by the News and Tribune.
domenica 29 giugno 2014
War war every where is war .
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