This is one type of Dinka dance that requires a lot of energy and foot stomping, quite a good way to keep fit if you can keep going for longer than 5 minutes! The Dinka men usually compete to see who can stay the longest. The other Dinka dance has the arms held up to resemble a bull’s horns as you stomp the ground.
The AID Sudan team did a community health outreach to our clinic patients waiting to see the doctor. Kerrie Snow gave a talk on dental hygiene and passed out toothbrushes as she explained how to use them. The patients were very happy to receive the toothbrushes as most of them use sticks to clean their teeth.
Today the AID Sudan team went to a local school called Tonj Academy to assess the possibility to have a radio program that would assit the teachers. AID Sudan is praying about partnering with In Deed and Truth Ministries to put a radio tower on our compound. This would be a very effective way to reach the local and surrounding community with the gospel, health talks and education.
A local Sudanese school teacher called William Majok had the vision to help students get the education they desperately desire and started this ‘private’ school to help them. Resources are limited and classes are overcrowded.
A typical sight early in the morning is the children walking down the road with a plastic chair on their head. If they don’t bring their own they don’t get to sit on a chair.
Some of the children don’t even have a makeshift classroom but are happy to receive whatever education they can even if it means sitting outside with limited shade from a large tree. Sabet and AID Sudan’s Andrew Brown share a bible story with the children.
For the past one year we have been taking our medical clinic on the road to a remote village 40 minutes drive away called Maloney. Every Thursday we pack up our car with everything we need and split out medical staff in half, sometimes borrowing from our compound staff to translate and help out. It is always a blessing to have a team that can lighten that load, so this week the AID Sudan team helped us out. In one year we have gone from seeing 25 patients to over 100 every week. Now the rains are setting in we ask for prayer as it really is a difficult place to reach when the footpath is muddy. Last year we got stuck so badly we ended up moving the clinic closer to the road.
What a joy to have a team from AID Sudan come from Houston, TX specifically to encourage the women and find out how they might further help and bless the women of Sudan. A team of 6 women and 2 men spent a week with us going out to villages and schools in the surrounding areas.
Today they shared with some of the church women in the village of Timtok and really got to see how they live.
