The following is adapted with permission from Tom Zurowski, Director of Global Response Network.

While exploring the needs of the South Sudanese population, GRN director Tom Zurowski found that in every village, Christian education was the overwhelming request of the people. During one of these missions, the Nugent School was discovered. A British missionary named Nugent originally built the school in 1929. Since that time, Sudan has undergone a brutal civil war that has not only taken the lives of over two million people and devastated the infrastructure of the South but has also left two generations with little or no education. It is estimated that 90% of all the people in Southern Sudan are illiterate.

For several years, Global Response Network (GRN) has been working to renovate the historic school located in Loka, Southern Sudan. Currently, hundreds of children are enrolled in the Loka Senior Secondary School and are receiving quality education on a daily basis. The school is highly regarded as one of the best schools and draws students from various locations in Southern Sudan. Some of the students walk as far as fourteen miles per day to attend classes, yet that is considered “local� for those students.

Please pray for us as we continue to rebuild this historic school, which, to the people of Loka is a beacon of hope for generations to come.

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