Mission Report from South Sudan, thank you for your Prayers & support.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Yeshua the Messiah, I would like to thank you for your tenacious support for ONMI and for sponsoring my most recent mission trip to South Sudan. As I was leaving the mission field, I left our ground team with this message of encouragement.
USA: The Impact of US Elections on Our Families' Future: A Call to Prayer and Action.
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Israel: Urgent Call for Action Against Rising Antisemitism and Prayers for Peace in Yerushalayim
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South Sudan: South Sudan's Long-Delayed Election: Economic Decline and Political Strife Threaten Landmark Moment
South Sudan postponed her upcoming election. South Sudan’s long-delayed election will be a landmark moment − but economic decline and political strife put the vote at risk.The country, which won independence in 2011 after a long conflict with Sudan, has not seen an election since. A date has been set for a national vote: Dec. 22, 2024. Yet the timing remains in question, with the United Nations and others doubting whether adequate preparations have been made.
As South Sudan is undergoing political and economic upheaval, the Impactful Leadership of the ONMI Ground Team in South Sudan is rendering the services critically needed to offset the suffering of the ordinary people by establishing sustainable initiatives.
I deeply appreciate the ground leadership team, including Matthew Abuca (Director of the ONMI ground Leadership team), Unzi James JH (Provost of NPI), and medical coordinator Samuel Koma, for their leadership during my successful administrative mission trip to South Sudan with ONMI from August 10 to 31. The trip focused on validating ONMI's 8-month progress following a fundamental administrative change in January 2024 to move towards sustainability.
ONMI's Sustainable Achievements in South Sudan
From the feedback I witnessed and gathered from the ground, ONMI's Director of Ground Operations and various departments under his leadership have made much progress and achieved many achievements towards sustainability initiatives. The ONMI mission has seven active Departments established to alleviate the plight of South Sudanese returning and recovering from the ashes of war and displacements.
I have witnessed strong leadership skills and a commitment to making necessary changes from the Director of Ground Operations to every departmental leadership. In April, we opened a polytechnic vocational training school, and within just four months, every student in various academic disciplines can produce a product from their training fields.
Empowering Students at ONMI's Technical School: A Testament to Success and Support
Just before I left, Rose Auma, a government official who works for the Ministry of Education in Eastern Equatoria State, visited the school. She was impressed to see how the students thrive in learning and building products with their own hands. She said Torit Technical School's students cannot produce products like Nehemiah Polytechnic from their training. Our students' unique achievements have inspired hope for the future and demonstrated the impact of your support.
Empowering Sustainability Initiatives in South Sudan
Here is follow-up feedback from our last conference call to reiterate students' initiative towards sustainability in South Sudan: developing products that can be used anywhere in the world at NPI. Nechemyah Israel Levi, ONMI's International Director for Sustainable Devolvement, brought up a great point and a long-term initiative to strengthen the long-term scope of ONMI's educational initiatives. he truly welcomes the involvement of benefactors Entrepreneurs, and Christian Churches leaders and organizations to embrace the vision of ONMI to invest in this initiative.
Empowering South Sudan's Economy Through Innovative Product Development at the ONMI's Polytechnic Institute.
We envision developing a new product in 2025 to revolutionize South Sudan's economy and offset the current economic disaster that has befallen South Sudan. South Sudan's inflation is now 4500 % and counting. One ($1) is now 4,500 SSP, or 450,000 per evry $100 which was $1 = 3 SSP in 2011. it was only 3% inflation then. Today, our students at JJMPI and NPI in the IT faculty excel in their mastery of MS Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and CompTIA A Plus. Within a year, that is, 2024, we will graduate them with a diploma or certification in MS Office and CompTIA A plus. Precedence is always important. It serves as a predicate for further training. I trained as a manufacturing engineer and in computer science, and I was educated in American institutions (NJIT) in New Jersey. I fundamentally believe using Udemy online courses for our online training as the foundation for our students in South Sudan will remain the bedrock to expose them to high-tech American institutions of learning.
