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Event ID # 50104
Date:
Sunday, July 13, 2008
 Time:
12:15 pm - 8:00 pm
Event:

Hearts of Angel for Health Sudan Golf Outing
Host:

HAH-S & Total Golf Events
Location:

(Manorville)   Google Map
Swan Lake Golf CLub
388 River Road, Manorville NY 11949
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
info@totalgolfevents.com
Website:
http://www.hahsannualgolf.com
Price:
$175 per player
Full details:

On July 13th, 2008, Total Golf Events will help host the 1st annual HAH-S (Hearts of Angels for Health Sudan) Golf Outing. The event is being held to outreach, raise visibility of the organization and cover costs of HIV/AIDs workshops in King County. The event will be held at Swan Lake Golf Course, located in Manorville, New York with the 18 hole golf outing starting at 1 p.m. and full dinner to follow.

Here is a brief look at HAH-S' operations: 

Founded in 2000, HAH-S works to address the devastation caused by what has been deemed Africa’s longest running civil war. The needs are vast, especially among women and children. With your help, HAH-S improves the health of these vulnerable populations in Sudan and among Sudanese who have sought refuge in the U.S. Currently, HAH-S efforts are focused on the Southern Sudanese community living in King County (Seattle and Puget Sound environs) with eventual plans to expand to other areas in the U.S. where large populations reside such as the Northeast.
In Southern Sudan, our work will initially focus on rural Kajo Keji County, birthplace of HAH-S cofounder Harriet Dumba. Kejo Keji is located on the southern border with Uganda and covers an area of roughly of 113,000 square kilometers. The local citizens are called Kuku and nearly all are peasant farmers who speak a local dialect Kuku. They are also known as the Bari speakers who make up 20% of the state population.

Kajo Keji is also one of the areas in Southern Sudan that has been hardest hit by the civil war. Most of the local citizens have fled to exile in neighboring countries. At the same time, the area also hosts large numbers of internally displaced people fleeing fighting in other parts of southern Sudan. Like other parts of southern Sudan, much of the social and economic infrastructure of Kajo Keji has suffered from neglect and war-related destruction. Most of the physical structures, including school buildings, health clinics, and community centers, have either crumbled or were destroyed during the war. Basic services, particularly education and health, are practically nonexistent in most parts of the county. Schools are poorly equipped, teachers lack training, and enrollment is particularly low as many children remain at home, especially girls. Harriet has already set in place much of the support needed in order to implement reproductive health workshops in this area as well as in Torit and Bor, other rural Southern Sudanese counties.