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Name of Organization, Institution, Company, or School:
Project Education Sudan
Focus of Study/axe de l'étude/foco de estudio
International Development creating self sufficient and sustaining models by working with local community leaders: chiefs, elders, women and children to help develop leadership capacity and ownership. Helps fund communities build an educational infrastructure after 20+ war between the North & South. Focus on girls and women's empowerment, leadership development and helping fund primary, secondary and Adult education in three villages in South Sudan located in Jonglei State. US involvement includes Primary, Middle, High and University student involvement.
What languages do you speak?
English, basic spanish, basic Kiswahili, basic Dinka
URL?
http://www.projecteducationsudan.org
What did you film on 12.12.12?
South Sudan Referendum: Diaspora Perspective
Intimate interviews from a cross section of South Sudanese in Denver, Colorado on how they survived the 20 year civil war, their hope with the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and their upcoming January 9, 2011 Referendum vote to secede from the North creating their independent country. Included is "Lost Boy" and Board member of Project Education Sudan, SPLA Chairman, Colorado, Leadership Institute of the New Sudan, Josef Korbel School of International Studies/University of Juba graduate, Bor Women's Association Colorado.

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At 3:20pm on November 8, 2011, Valentina said…
Great work and amazing photos! Will you be filming this year?
We have just started a South Sudan group which you can join here: http://www.onedayonearth.org/group/one-day-on-earth-south-sudan-11-11-11
At 2:44pm on December 15, 2010, Cassandra Siemon said…

Fantastic work, a very well made and important piece!  

At 10:34pm on June 29, 2010, Beverly Odom said…
Wonderful photographs that portray Project Education Sudan's Mission!

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Project Education Sudan’s: Voices from a New Country: The Republic of South Sudan

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Project Education Sudan’s: Voices from a New Country: The Republic of South Sudan

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Project Education Sudan was once again invited by One Day on Earth to participate with documentary filmmakers, schools, non-profits, students and inspired citizens to document the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph of the human experience over a 24-hour period around the world. This…

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Project Education Sudan’s: Voices from a New Country: The Republic of South Sudan

Project Education Sudan’s: Voices from a New Country: The Republic of South Sudan
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Project Education Sudan was once again invited by One Day on Earth to participate with documentary filmmakers, schools, non-profits, students and inspired citizens to document the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph of the human experience over a 24-hour period around the world. This year, 11 . 11. 11., we will be filming in South Sudan with Daniel Majok Gai, PES South Sudan Director, behind the camera capturing the voices, landscape of the newest country on the world, The Republic of South Sudan.
Through this collaborative platform, One Day on Earth will create a 120-minute documentary to be released theatrically that will capture the diversity of life and culture on this planet.
South Sudan Film Maker, Daniel Majok Gai - PES South Sudan PES Director
Daniel Majok Gai is a former “Lost Boy of Sudan” who is a PES Board Member and PES South Sudan Director in Bor County, Jonglei State, South Sudan-the most remote area of the country. He was highlighted in 2011 One Day on Earth 10.10.10 PES film: Referendum: Diaspora Perspective. This year Daniel is filming in South Sudan capturing the voices and landscape of students at Pagook Primary, Ayak Anguei Girls Primary, local Dinka village chiefs, elders, school head masters and head matrons, and women’s groups. He will also capture the day in the life of Dinka peoples: cattle, grain grinding, water fetching, children, singing, and dancing. Also covered will be interviews of Ministry officials and village elders on their new freedom from the North as the newest country in the world: The Republic of South Sudan.
Director/Producer, Carol Francis-Rinehart – Executive Director Project Education Sudan
Carol is a former secondary teacher who has 25 years of refugee resettlement in the United States. Her work with the Sudanese “Lost Boys” began with their arrival in 2001. She is recognized nationwide for her activism and consulting on behalf of the South Sudanese. In 2006, along with “Lost Boy” Isaac Khor Bher, she founded Project Education Sudan to support the creation of an educational infrastructure in rural South Sudan. She has been a Delegate to the United Nations Commission of the Status of Women 2008 & 2012. She was the director/producer of last year’s 10.10.10 PES film: Referendum: Diaspora Perspective, and has a particular interest on equal education for girls. Carol leads annual monitoring and working trips to South Sudan to promote the work of PES.

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