Navigation |
About UsAdvisory CommitteeBruce Lamb Attorney-Merrick, Hofstedt & Lindsey, P.S.(206) 682-0610 Nancy Long Executive Director-Executive Service Corps (ESC)(206) 682-6704 John Goessman President-United Way of King County, 1984-1985(206) 364-9040 Gach Dedoch Southern Sudanese graduate student at UW School of Social Work, extensive prior experience with UNHCR, and Nuer Translator(206) 239-8579 ( categories: About Us )
StaffSSCW StaffMachot Lat Suzanna Samb Cara Anderson-Ahrens Merri Ann Osborne Ben Weintraub Younis Sitero ( categories: About Us )
Board of DirectorsMachot Lat Executive Director Chong Reyam President Wakeya Smith Chibeny Juac Dina Bronstein ( categories: About Us )
Mission StatementThe people from Southern Sudan have come to the United States not only to find a better place to live, but to become contributing members of her society. Many Sudanese arrive in the United States with very little knowledge of English, and they need to develop some command of the language, first to survive and then to establish a foundation that will enable them to further their education in America. Some Sudanese have never seen a flushing toilet, running water or a dollar bill. They are unfamiliar with where to go for public assistance; how to use public transit; how to use a telephone; where to go to find housing, a job, or food; and how to keep themselves warm in cold temperatures. Many are dealing with those left behind in their country or as refugees in other African countries, as well as the loss of friends, family members and their country. They are unfamiliar with the American way of life, miss their own culture, food and fellowship. ( categories: About Us )
HistoryThe largest country in Africa, one that is a quarter the size of the United States, is immersed in turmoil and civil war. Since its independence from Egypt and Britain in 1956, Sudan has been marked by war for all but one decade beginning in 1972. Caught in the middle of a brutal conflict between North and South Sudan are millions of Sudanese people searching for a way to continue living without being plagued by fear and death everywhere. The war has claimed over two million lives. Until recently, the war has been fought almost entirely in southern Sudan between the largely black, Christian and animistic people of that region and the ruling Arab and Muslim north. Now war has spread to the Darfur region in the West. ( categories: About Us )
|