SSVP Annual Newsletter

                                                 

                                  DEVELOPMENT THROUGH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT & PARTICIPATION

To Friends and Well-wishers of SSVP-South Sudan-Juba

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul has launched a two-year strategic plan 2026-2027. The strategic plan aims at prioritizing specific strategic objectives on; Strengthening the Institutional Capacity and Sustainability, Empowering and Developing Human Resource, Enhancing Program Quality and Youth Employability, Improving Infrastructure and Learning Environment, Deepening Community Engagement and Peacebuilding.

Throughout the year, the management team and all the project staff were guided by this plan in carrying out all the expected duties in implementing the projects.

The organization has recruited new administrative staff as a project manager to support and reinforce the management team in its daily managerial work. This recruitment follows the potential need for a long-term succession plan.

 During the past months this year, the organization has maintained its operational commitments in all its field areas of operation namely; Lologo, Nyarjwa, and Rejaf to reaching its targets of vulnerable population.

Official website and staff email address (ssvp-ss.org)

The Society of St. Vincent has developed a website address in September 2026, which is now functional on online. This development came in line with an operational objective to strengthening advocacy, local networking to promote organization’s mission and objectives. Though, it’s operational online, it will be officially launched soon.

Our Programs

1.     Vocational Training:  The institution will be graduating about 480 students who have completed a one-year training on 26 November 2026. This is in line with institutional mission of building the capacity of young people and vulnerable population to support self-reliance initiatives by developing skills for job creation rather than job seeking. It’s over 6900 trained young people from 2009

to the current, in which most of them who currently working in the country.

The training areas include Tailoring and Garment Making, Building and Construction, Welding and Metal Fabrication, General Electricity, Auto-mechanics, Computer Literacy and Application Technology, First Aid and Auxiliary Nursing, AC and Refrigeration and other practical agribusiness training for women.

With the graduation batch 18, the total graduated students will make over 6,900 who have successfully gone through the vocational training from 2009-2026.

The program helps participants strengthen their skills, confidence and ability to become more economically self-reliant.

2.     Education: Basic and primary education, school support and learning opportunities for vulnerable children. About 1,125 pupils enrolled in nursery and primary this year 2026, with about 79 sitting for final examination for primary leaving certificate.

      The primary leaving certificate examination will start on 16th November 2026, making it the 7th batch from the establishment of the school. from 2010-2026, the total of enrolled children is 11,648 pupils. 567 has graduated for secondary school.

Your support can help us provide quality education and create a brighter future for these young minds.

3.     Healthcare Services: Primary healthcare, maternal services, medical support and community health services for people who cannot afford essential care.

Approximately 20-30 patients are received and treated every day. Every year, the clinic received about 3000 patients including maternity cases.

Your donation can help us deliver life-saving medical care to the poor and vulnerable.

4.     Child Protection, Rehabilitation and Re-integration: Support for street-connected children, child welfare, safe care, education and long-term development through programmes such as Be in Hope Home. Creating safer spaces for vulnerable children has been a priority in the project of BIH.

The project is helping children to access education, medication, guidance and opportunities to aspire to the future they want, and also supporting children to grow with dignity, and self-esteem.

The center is hosting 25 children every year, this year, it will be reunifying 3 children who have reached the exit period to be reintegrated with their families and communities, as they are completing their final examination for primary leaving level. The project also supports those students who are willing to pursue their studies and have no financial capacity.

In an alumni support program, about 8 children are supported outside the center in secondary school level, 5 students in the university level, 3 are studying in an Ethiopian University (Haramaya and Yanet). This center from its inception in 2014 to date has reunified about 35 children.

    Your support can help us provide a loving home and a second chance at life for these vulnerable children.

5.     Nutrition: Supplementary feeding, nutrition support, school snacks and food assistance for malnourished children and vulnerable families. This program feeds over 900 children in three baby feeding centers of Lologo, Rejaf and Nyarjwa, in addition to 1,200 school children receiving snacks every school day. 

The Supplementary feeding and nutrition support program is so effective in the beneficiary’s communities in which children are attending schools with a hope of receiving a meal. The program also Supports mothers and vulnerable households in catering for their children; they are trained in cooking healthier food for them through an initiated kitchen garden project.

Your support can help us save lives and provide hope to families in desperate need.

6.     Agriculture and Livelihoods: Agricultural training, women's agribusiness, sustainable farming and livelihood support for IDPs and vulnerable communities. Community women groups are trained on livelihood and food production. This initiative has supported income and household resilience in hungry communities of women who are the households’ breadwinners. Through this program, women have grown independently and economically strengthened. 60 rural women are yealy trained in Rejaf, and Nyarjwa. About 560 women are been trained and are now living and running their family farms in their rural areas.

Together, we can create a brighter future for these individuals and communities, and help them build a life of dignity, hope, and opportunity. 

OBITUARY

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul deeply regrets to announce with profound sadness the tragic and untimely death of the most senior instructor Ustaz John Joseph Odur of vocational training and head of the unit in the department of General Electricity. He sustained a head injury after been hit by a car. He was motorbike with his colleague when they were coming from the funeral of one of his best former students of batch 15. His colleague sustained minor injuries. The former student late Sebit Adogo was already working with JEDCO for years after graduating from SSVP-VT. He accidently died of an electric shock.

The accident happened on 17th October 2026 on the road from seventh day roundabout near St. Kizito. After being hospitalized, he was discharged and later the condition deteriorated which led to his death on the 5th November 2026 at around 10:00PM at Juba Teaching Hospital.

Ustaz John Joseph Odur started working with SSVP-VT as an instructor since Sudan. After the peace agreement the SSVP was transferred to Southern by then in 2009, and late Ustaz was among the first volunteers’ instructors who started vocational training with only three trades of Building, General Electricity and Carpentry.

Ustaz, John Joseph Odur was more than an instructor, but a cornerstone of our technical and vocational training efforts. His teaching skill made him loved by all the students of General Electricity, his colleagues and management staff of the society. His commitment to equipping our young people and the vulnerable persons with practical skills has made an incredible impact into a positive change in the lives of the vocational training beneficiaries in both Sudan and South Sudan. 

Ustaz John Joseph has instilled and inculcated the knowledge, competence and work ethic to those successful young competitors in the labor market today. His efforts that brought change to many successful young people who are independently living their lives now as a result of the work of his hands, will remain the inspiring and lasting legacy through out our existence as the Society.

His delivered service has changed the social status of many from vulnerable people to effective breadwinners and economically self-reliant population contributing to the welfare of others and the communities around them.

We remain in thoughts and prayer with the family of the late Ustaz John Joseph Odur, friends, colleagues and the entire community of students who were touched with his dedicated service.

Late John Joseph ‘‘Has Fought the Good Fight, Has Finished the Race, and Has Kept the Faith’’ (2Timothy 4:7)

He will remain in the spirit of our service, and his work will live with us forever and ever.