Bishop Andudu sent his second report for the ECS Hope Primary School (cf. Report at "Donations" / "Rebuilding Education" / "ECS Hope Primary School"). With the report came three pictures. They are posted below.
Picture of Bishop Andudu with the students.
Picture of some of the Hope Primary School students.
Picture of one of the students with a soccer ball. Bishop Andudu, in purple, is seated in front of one of the classrooms.
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Pictures from Canon Ken Leonczyk, September 2004:
Bishop Andudu and his wife greet Canon Ken at the Nairobi, Kenya airport.
Canon Ken and Bishop Andudu with priests and laymembers of the Diocese of Kadugli-Nuba Mountains
This is a gathering of Bishop Andudu and several of his priests with Canon Ken. The women in white are members of the Mother's Union. This is a British based women's group similar to the ECW in the United States. The Mother's Union plays a most important part in the life of the church in the Sudan.
Scene from the Nuba with mountains in the background
Buildings like this are being built as classrooms as funds become available.
Deacon James Tompkins, Church of the Beloved, Slidell, LA, visited the Nuba several weeks after Canon Ken Leoncyzk. He took this picture of the interior of the original classroom of Hope Primary School shortly after the school was given to Bishop Andudu to operate and develop. This is an interior view of the school. The reason the Nuba Department of Education asked Bishop Andudu to take over the school was because the local community did not have any money to operate it. The Gadsden Endowment in Virginia provided an initial grant for Bishop Andudu to use for establishing primary schools, and this became the first. Cf. the report on this by clicking the "Donation" page, then go to "Rebuilding Educatioin," then, ECS Hope Primary for the Feb 2005 update from Bishop Andudu. Much has happened since last September.
Canon Ken has now confirmed that this is one of the churches that has been restored. The two round buildings are typical home buildings, one for sleeping and the other as a kitchen / food storage.
A Nuba Home built with native rock. There is no shortage of rock in many parts of the Nuba. Homes are often built within corrals, in which there would be typically three round structures, one for sleeping, one for cooking and food storage, and one for additional storage. The Nuba are an agricultural people. In addition to the reconstruction of education, there is also the need for the reconstruction of agriculture. Many areas have yet to be cleared of land mines. This is another of the major problems facing reconstruction and development.
