Akot Arec, Executive Director of JumpStart Sudan, and Dale Edwards spent two and a half weeks going to Akon to distribute medicine, blankets, school uniforms, books and some clothing purchased from donations totaling over $17,000 by Kansas City area churches and concerned residents. They gave the medicine to the doctor who shared it with other areas within the county which were also without medicine. Blankets were distributed to five different areas in the county.
 
Akot and Dale were able to provide 400 uniforms for the boys and 200 for the girls in the Akon school of 1,540. They were determined to return someday soon with more uniforms for the children as, for many of the children, the uniforms were their only decent clothing. If you look at photos of the boys and girls in uniform, you will often see that the girls’ uniforms, especially, are too large for them. But this allows them to wear those uniforms for several years.
 
They also distributed Bibles and showed a Jesus film to a group of three to four hundred people from the area.