Water for South Sudan (formerly known as Water for Sudan) is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation founded in 2003 to drill wells, deliver hygiene education, and provide sanitation services to South Sudan. Their website states that their mission is to The operations team, based in Wau, South Sudan, mainly performs work in remote villages in the Bahr el-Ghazal region of South Sudan. Administrative headquarters are located in Rochester, NY. In 2003, former "Lost Boy" of Sudan, Salva Dut, founded Water for South Sudan in Rochester, NY. Salva's story began in 1974 when he was born in a rural village in southwestern Sudan to a tribe of Dinka people. When Salva was 11 years old, in 1985, Sudan was wracked by the Second Sudanese Civil War. During this war, the "militia killed, plundered, burned, and raped their way through a huge swathe of Southern Sudan from 1985 to 1989". During this time, millions died and millions more were displaced, fleeing to refugee camps in Ethiopia, Kenya and other neighboring countries. When the fighting reached Salva's village, he was separated from his family and joined thousands of other children, mostly boys, known as the Lost Boys of Sudan who had to seek safety on foot in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. More information...
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