Abek Community Development Association

Important Announcement!
Your help is needed ASAP.

Kuek Garang, ACDP President, will visit Southern Sudan in April and May 2009 to assess requirements and needs for the Wernyol School Project. He will be joined by ACDP Board member Josh Engel; they will prepare a formal report on the trip's findings upon their return to the United States. Click here for more information, including itinerary, agenda and expenses for which your help is needed.

Please help support this essential step in the process.
Time is of the essence!

IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENT!
Abek and Adhiok are meeting for the first time!
July 3 - July 5, 2009
Grand Rapids, MI.
Come for Wernyol National Event
We all want everybody to attend - your presence will make a huge difference
Downloads with details: Flyer: pdf (199kb) Word doc (450kb) Invitation Letter: pdf (341kb) Word doc (447kb)

The Abek Community Development Program was formed in November 2005 by the members of the Abek Community residing all over the United States; most of them are Lost Boys and Girls. When war broke out in the Sudan, the Sudanese communities were devastated by war emotionally, socially, educationally, and healthily. The Abek members in Diaspora understood their suffering and formed an association to alleviate the devastation that war brought to them.

The Abek Community Development Program (ACDP) is a nonprofit organization incorporated under articles of the Illinois Secretary of State. ACDP is a 501 (C) 3 organization under Nonprofit Federal law. The Abek Community Development is based at Christ Church, 470 N. Maple Street, Winnetka, IL 60093.

The Abek community in Southern Sudan is geographically located in Bor, Jonglei State with a population of 10,000 according to 1972 statistics.

This web site is dedicated to keeping the Sudanese Abek community united and informed. We will provide information to all members of the Abek Community Development Program, and share our journey with all who are interested.

please click any of the links to the left to learn more

Announcements

The First St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Chicago has chosen the Abek Community Development Program as one of the Organizations to support during lent. Kuek Garang, President of the Abek Community Development Program, will make a presentation about the Wernyol School Project in Southern Sudan.

When:

Where:

Sunday, March 29th, 2009
8:30am & 11:30am
First St Paul’s Lutheran Church
1301 N La Salle Dr
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 642-7172
Get directions

Atem Malith Akuei

John Malith Akuei & Achol Kuany Mabior
announced an annual $200 donation
to the Abek education project
on behalf of their son,
Atem Malith Akuei.

The contribution will be made each year on his birthday and will remind him
that as he gets his education, he is helping children in Sudan get theirs.

Articles To Read

Kuek Garang became a U.S. citizen in 2008 -
he appeared on the Oprah Show
on election day as afirst time voter
Click here to view a clip of his appearance

Click here to read the February 2007 Newsletter

Click here to read the Chicago Sun Times
article about the ACDP board meeting
held in Chicago (27 to 28 of January)

Other important articles
(click on the title to read them):

SUDAN: Rise in school enrollment
poses funding problem

100, 000 refugees return to southern Sudan

IOM resumes return operation of
Dinka Bor to Jonglei State

Click on Our Photos
to see pictures from the
December 2007
Abek community meeting
in St. Joseph, MO

ACDP web designer
Barbara Rose
gave the keynote speech
click here to read it

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