South Sudan has many great resources, but the most wonderful of these is our people. Someday, educated South Sudanese from every tribe and region will be doctors, nurses, business people, engineers, scientists, teachers, artists, and more. They will be healthy and strong. They will be leaders in the world. Those people are the children of today. They can only reach that potential if such basic needs as water, healthcare, and education are available. Today we dig a well, bandage a cut, and sound out the letters in a new schoolbook; tomorrow we have the pride of being a nation of accomplishment.
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- Many villages do not have a wells. Even where there are wells, the water is typically allowed to sit in seuch, which are shallow watering holes dug into the nearby ground which is unsanitary.
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- Basic Education Education is the route by which our country can prosper, but schools are woefully under-supplied. Books, pencils, paper, blackboards, even chalk are in short supply.
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- Adequate Healthcare Children need medical attention. The best way to provide basic healthcare is to create a corps of visiting nurses to work with children and toddlers that aren’t ready for school yet.