Dear Friend,

October is a busy traveling month for me which means it is also an exciting month since I am constantly meeting new people who share my vision of peace and prosperity in South Sudan. I am continually motivated and encouraged by my conversations with the people I meet and the support the Foundation and I receive wherever I go. It’s because of the generosity of people like you which has made the Duk Lost Boys Clinic, the first medical clinic in my home village in Sudan, a success. Your support has provided the foundation we need to rescue and rebuild the lives of thousands of men, women and children whose communities in Sudan have been torn apart by violence, oppression and devastation.

Thank you,

,

John Dau

Lopez Lomong, the Sudanese-born track and field athlete who carried the U.S. flag in the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, announced his support for the John Dau Sudan Foundation (JDSF) and its initiative of transforming healthcare in Southern Sudan in September.

Since Lopez is busy travelling the world, his support for JDSF helps bring international attention to the foundation’s efforts. As a famous Olympic athlete, Lopez’s position in the world is great for the foundation. Lomong, age 23, is also one of the Lost Boys of Sudan and was moved to Onondaga County at age 16. He first met John Dau at a refugee camp in Kenya when he was 6 years old, and his life journey has driven him to get involved with JDSF.

Lomong is just the starting point for a number of the JDSF projects that are in the works, including a major national recording artist potentially going on tour to raise money for the foundation.

Lomong said he feels it's his responsibility to spread awareness about the

The John Dau Sudan Foundation launched its first strategic campaign to take the next step in transforming healthcare in Southern Sudan at the end of August.

Through the 1,000 Koiye Miooc Campaign, JDSF will partner with 1,000 koiye miooc (koi-yee mewch) to ensure the Duk Lost Boys Clinic’s continued operation and ability to provide healthcare services long into the future. Based on its first year’s experience, JDSF knows that it needs to generate $300,000 a year to fund basic clinic service. The campaign seeks 1,000 charter koiye miooc who pledge $25 a month ($300 a year) to do this.

“The 1,000 Koiye Miooc Campaign is essential to establishing a consistent flow of funds to maintain the Duk Lost Boys Clinic,” said Bill Coplin, Chairman of the Board. “Donors can commit to $25 a month to make sure we continue to serve as many as 150 citizens of Duk County, Southern Sudan a day.”

The name “koiye miooc” means “generous persons” in Dinka. “Americans are so generous, even with people they will never meet,” said John Dau, JDSF President. “They have very big hearts.”

For more information about the 1,000 Koiye Miooc Campaign and how you can become a charter koiye miooc today, please visit www.johndaufoundation.org/kmcampaign. Over 100 people have already joined the campaign.

Dr. Glenn Geelhoed shares stories from his first full day working at the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in January 2008. He will return to the clinic in Duk County this December.

January 2, 2008: As I type this I am surrounded by at least twenty kids who are crowding me, falling all over me as I am sitting on a fuel barrel for the generator, trying hard to keep from being pushed over by forty small grubby hands with their unwashed little extremities probing all sides as they try to see what is written in the screen and how the magic happens inside this laptop. They have no concept of personal space, and are falling all over themselves as if I am a personal find of their own to exploit, in the middle of remote Jonglei Province having come upon and ET with a laptop communication to the far side of the world—hoping that they and their hopes and dreams can be transported just as far---after all it happened already to quite a few of the “Lost Boys” of Sudan—witness the clinic we are sitting next to right here..

I cannot continue since the twenty small boys are now more like fifty and I may have to move just to keep from being rolled off my fuel barrel. There is no way I can see the screen through the ring-wormy scalps between me and it, and after each little finger has smeared the screen it is quite opaque to read anything on it anyway. They are all trying hard to learn English, and much as I might have experienced in China some decades ago, they are following every word here—finally all jumping up and down spotting “English” in the sentence above. I am able to go nowhere at any time without an entourage of both admirers and mendicants and have no privacy for such functions as this one, or trying to go behind a tree to pee without a parade of close followers.  Read More >

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Planning on browsing the internet or doing a little online shopping? By using GoodSearch.com you can support JDSF and do these things at the same time!

JDSF has joined with Yahoo!'s GoodSearch to promote awareness and raise money for the people of Southern Sudan- one click at a time. You use GoodSearch like any other search engine, only each search generates a penny for JDSF— it may sound small but it adds up quickly! Now you can also add GoodSearch to your internet toolbar.

You also can use GoodShop to do online shopping at more than 500 stores including Amazon, Gap, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, iTunes and Target. When you make a purchase through GoodShop, as much as 37 percent of your bill will go to the John Dau Sudan Foundation. Just go to www.goodshop.com and be sure to enter the John Dau Sudan Foundation as the charity you want to support.

Join the I GoodSearch for the John Dau Sudan Foundation Facebook group and stay up to date on this revolutionary way of supporting JDSF. Find out more >