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Greetings!
Welcome to Mercy Beyond Border's first year anniversary edition of our e-newsletter, started in April of 2009. Board Members Shirley Tamoria, MD, and I are in Sudan as you read this. Along with MBB supporter Linda Cloney, we are visiting sites where we already have girls on scholarship (Rumbek), where we hope to set up medical partnerships (Mapuordit), and where one of our women's micro-enterprise groups is active (Nimule). In addition, we will meet with various partners at their offices in Kenya; most Sudanese groups have their main offices in Nairobi due to the absence of adequate communications infrastructure in much of S. Sudan.
We hope that the April national elections proceed without violence. Check our website for a link to our travel blogs later in April! We remain deeply grateful to each of you for your ongoing support of MBB's work with displaced women and girls in Sudan!
Thank you,
Sister Marilyn Lacey | |
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Did You Know? |
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A Nation of Uprooted. Of Sudan's population (~40 million), over 15% are uprooted. USAID's most recent figures suggest that internally displaced persons, refugees and returnees to Southern Sudan total over 6 million.
Elections Set After Rainy Season. Sudanese parliamentary and presidential elections are set for April 10th. Voters will also elect a president, parliament and state governors for semi-autonomous Southern Sudan. Voter registration has been plagued by logistical problems and political disputes.
Secession Next Year? The 2005 peace agreement that ended the long North-South civil war set a referendum for January 2011 to decide whether S. Sudan will secede from the North. |
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Mercy Beyond Borders blog provides a weekly commentary from MBB's founder, Marilyn Lacey, rsm, on MBB activities at home and abroad.
Mercy in Sudan blog chronicles the experiences of Kathleen Connolly, rsm, who moved to Africa in Jan 2009. She is living at St Bakhita School in Sudan. |
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Kuron Medical Clinic
 Most nurses in the U.S., I suspect, have not received training in how to treat a survivor mauled by a crocodile. Sister Angela Limiyo, director of the rural medical clinic at KuronPeaceVillage in southeastern Sudan, could teach you! In fact, she could teach health practitioners a great deal about courage (she served in a war zone for 3 yrs in northern Uganda before moving to Sudan), about stamina (her primary clinic treats over 400 patients per month in brutal tropical heat), and about how to be an effective healer despite the serious lack of lab equipment, medicines, or refrigeration.
When we visited Sr Angela in Kuron, she asked MBB for funding to support 4 "helpers" - young Sudanese women - whom she would supervise for a year's pre-nursing internship at the clinic. Thanks to a generous grant from Catholic Healthcare West, MBB has now met that request. Four young women will begin their internship this month in Kuron. If they learn well, perform steadily and stay motivated to become nurses, MBB will provide academic scholarships for them in the coming years. Thank you, CHW! And thank you, Sister Angela.
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Come Take a Look at Our Website
We invite you to peruse our new-and-improved website at www.mercybeyondborders.org, and tell more of your friends about MBB. The site now contains dozens of tabs and links, including Q&A, pictures and stories, background readings and blogs about MBB. Don't be fooled by the fact that the Home Page looks just like the old one. Poke around using the tabs beneath the masthead and you will discover lots of interesting items.  For example, there is the beautiful Annual Report done pro bono for MBB by volunteer Catherine Hill.
Also, we encourage you to have your colleagues sign up for this monthly eNewsletter. They can sign up directly on the website, or you can forward this newsletter to them, and they can click the link on the left labeled "Join Our Mailing List" Or simply email us. It's free! And it's our best tool for letting people know about MBB. Right now we reach almost 1,700 inboxes per month. Imagine how great it would be if each of you would enlist/enroll 3 more colleagues to become readers! |
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Ambassador Of The Month
 Robert Tafoya, Superior Court Judge in Kern County, California, finds the mission of MBB so inspiring that he sends $100 monthly to support our work in Sudan. "I know that my donations are reaching women and girls who are truly in need," says Judge Tafoya, "and I experience joy in connecting with them this way. It impressed me, too, when MBB encouraged us all to donate to groups doing relief work in Haiti rather than donating to MBB in February. Obviously, MBB is an organization focused on the desperately poor rather than on its own success. That only increases my commitment to supporting MBB regularly." Ambassadors volunteer to raise $1,000 each year for Mercy Beyond Borders. For more information, or to become an Ambassador, contact Marilyn Lacey at mercybeyondborders@yahoo.com |
You're receiving this email because of your interest in MERCY BEYOND BORDERS. MBB was founded in 2008 by three colleagues-- a Sister of Mercy, a university professor, and a medical doctor--determined to improve the lives of displaced women and children living in extreme poverty. We are a 501(c)(3) registered in California and committed to linking U.S. resources with displaced women & children overseas. We are currently targeting Southern Sudan, which has one-quarter of the world's displaced peoples.
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Sincerely,
Sister Marilyn Lacey
Executive Director
Donations to support the work of Mercy Beyond Borders can be made online by clicking on the button above or sent to Mercy Beyond Borders, 1885 De La Cruz Blvd #101, Santa Clara CA 95050-3000. |
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