15-year old James Bol Akook of Adoor Village School
15-year beneficiary to GO! Funding says his life is greatly improved following his continuous feeding at school
By Thiik-awet
AWEIL, SOUTH SUDAN
Meet James Bol Akook, a 15-year-old boy whose life has been greatly transformed by GO! Nutrition Initiative at Adoor Village School.
James Bol Akook is at Adoor, an orphanage center for vulnerable children in South Sudan who has become one of the brightest pupils after he left his village’s hard life and hustling, and became a regular school-goer at Adoor.
Akook, was born to poor parents who couldn't afford daily meals for him and his other four siblings as life had been tough on them. According to Bol, he says his mother starved with hunger due to lack of income in their family, so he had to remain with his stepmother and other four siblings and a father.
As his father is illiterate, they didn’t know the sources of daily sustainability to the family and were always confused because of the demanding economic condition in South Sudan as their only hope was hustling. As life got harder, his dad heard of the GO! funded school at Adoor which provides the feedings to vulnerable children like him, hence he was brought to the school. He joined the school three years ago and was able to be fed under the School feeding Program at Adoor Orphanage Centre in South Sudan where he rapidly grew into a clever young boy who speaks good English.
God has done miracles to the people of South Sudan especially the villages where nutrition has been provided at school which is transforming lives of vulnerable kids like James.
Bol says he benefited from the meals through GO! where he gets daily meals at school, word of God each day, and has learned to love and respect for others. He says he is blessed and grateful for the life transformation and believes he is the luckiest person through Christ -“things turned-around” for him.
He testified that he has totally changed and improved his life comparing to when he used to be angry and out of sorts. He believes that life transformation happened to him because God loves him as His child and that he will always proclaim His Mighty Name.
He is grateful for the opportunity and wishes to wisely use the opportunity to help others when he gets educated. He is looking forward to scholarship opportunities so as to become priest in the future to help spread the goodness of the living GOD.
Like many other beneficiaries, he says the school meals program has given him strength and has a completely different outlook from how he was before joining GO! Sponsored school.
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In the first six months of this year we have provided an estimated 324,540 meals impacting 3,162 children. The scale of this initiative has grown by more than 3x when compared to 2020 when we served an estimated 104,440 meals to 852 vulnerable children.
Plans for 2021 is to provide nutrition to more vulnerable children in the Aweil area. In cooperation with multiple partners (Kids for the Kingdom & Christ Mission to the World), we have invested in these school sites with additional infrastructure over the last 6-months by investing $109,200 during this time for kitchens, storerooms, and latrines. We are thankful for these partners that make this work possible. We have taken this a step further this month (July 2021) when Kids for the Kingdom agreed to support the vulnerable children with food, while we will focus on the orphaned children that are in need. Ultimately, more children will receive meals, with larger portions, and the Kingdom of God will continue to advance in South Sudan!
Since 2016 we have served these precious children with our partner Christ Mission to the World who are the hands and feet on the ground, and are now joined by Kids for the Kingdom so that we may bless even more children in need.
You may send support or other correspondence to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Cir, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically to support the feeding of vulnerable children at 2021 South Sudan Nutrition.
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