From February, 2013, we will send children of families deported from Israel to South Sudan to Kingsway boarding school in Uganda. Nata was arrested in a classroom, and deported to South Sudan. She is fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, after years of excelling in her studies in Israel. Read more We are already active in Juba, although, due to very high costs, we do not yet have a base in the capital. HO is based in Magwi County 85 km away from Central Equatoria…. Read More
Help Children Get a Proper Education
South Sudanese children have been scattered around the globe, after their parents fled the bloody civil war in Sudan. Once South Sudan became an independent state, many began to return to their old-new country. About 1,500 South Sudanese who found asylum in Israel, were deported back to South Sudan this summer. Among them are many children, who studied in the Israeli education system for the last few years, where they got a good head start. The deportees from Israel have not yet had the chance… Read More
Meeting Deportees in Juba
In July the Israeli Immigration authorities arrested dozens of people in a crackdown mainly targeting asylum seekers from South Sudan. The South Sudanese community, estimated of 1000-1,500 members entered Israel through the Sinai Peninsula, searching for a safe refuge, escaping the war and their persecution in South Sudan following their massacre in Cairo, on 2005. Israel granted the South Sudanese with a class protection, which was lifted on April 2012, 9 months after the referendum that granted the independence of South Sudan. Israeli Human Rights… Read More
