INTERNATIONAL SUDANESE
REFUGEE CARE
MISSION
International Sudanese Refugees Care (ISRC) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization committed in helping South Sudanese refugee returning to their homeland from refugee camps from their neighboring countries. ISRC was founded in 2007, with the goal of empowering women, widows, and orphans of Southern Sudan to counteract the acute suffering caused by decades of civil war and to begin the process of rebuilding their shattered lives.
It began through acquiring a piece of land for the ISRC sites in South Sudan, followed by recruitment of volunteers. Early activities involved distribution of clothing articles to beneficiaries in the area until the organization is able to secure its registration status.ISRC understands that education is fundamental to achieving this vision. It focuses on the building of a classroom, development of effective educational programs to address illiteracy, training of teachers, and offering of vocational training to both women and orphans in their localities.
In late 2007, two members spent a month in South Sudan, registering the organization there as a non-profit and selecting a village with which to start the work. That village is Panyikwara Boma, Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria, close to Nimule, which is on the Ugandan border. This village was selected with the advice and consent of local government officials who see it as one of the most in need of assistance. The village has not one permanent structure by that time. People come back from the refugee camps with nothing but a plastic tarp to cover the ‘huts’ they make with mud and straw. The goal of SWOCA is not only to work with this village, but also to use this as a place to start a process that will ultimately allow them to help women and children across South Sudan, without regard to tribal affiliation. Where schools have already been built, SWOCA will concentrate on helping women with vocational training and literacy programs, and orphans with supplies, materials, and clothing
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The organization is committed to helping women and orphans of Southern Sudan to realize their highest potential for socio-economic growth through self-empowerment, education, and self-sufficiency. ISRC works by teaching the women and orphans basic literacy skills such as reading and writing, and other basic livelihood skills, and, thereafter, apply these skills into entrepreneurial activity and vocational training in order to secure employment and start a new business. ISRC will concentrate on helping women and orphans across South Sudan, without regard to tribal affiliation.4/23/2007
WOMEN IN SOUTH SUDAN
When the landmark Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was finally signed in 2005, all the ten States of Southern Sudan began the process of repatriation. During the long liberation struggle, all Southern regions had been violently subjugated. Thousands of women lost their lives from hunger and sexual violence, leading many Sudanese to flee their country and settle around the world. Currently in Southern Sudan women and children are the most in need of basic needs for their survival. These reasons put SWOCA in a unique position to help these women to improving their circumstances and also give help to orphans who have little hope for a better future. SWOCA believes that education is the key to provide sustainable future for the women and children of South Sudan.