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2003:
Akon students receive 1,100 school uniforms
Akot Arec, Executive Director of JumpStart Sudan, and Bill Williams
traveled to Sudan with approximately $24,000 in donations collected
in the Kansas City area and two duffle bags filled with $38,000
worth of medicine and medical supplies donated by Heart to Heart
International.
They purchased $10,109 in clothing in Nairobi at one shop and 925
schoolbooks, 1,000 pens and pencils and Bibles at another where the
shopkeeper donated a few hundred pens and pencils to help the poor
in Sudan.
Upon arriving in Akon, 500 blankets and 100 mosquito nets went to
the sick and elderly. Cookware was given to the women’s center. 130
outfits were distributed to school teachers, school staff, church
staff and choir members.
The duffle bags were given to the doctor; the medicine that
JumpStart Sudan brings is the only source of medicine he has.
Fifty Bibles were donated to a Bible study program. It took
most of a day to to distribute 1,100 uniforms to the children.
Bill was shocked to learn that neither the teachers nor the doctor
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