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The estimates are staggering as international NGOS are estimating that as many as 700,000 Sudanese have fled their homes.

 

imor, The estimates are staggering as international NGOS are estimating that as many as 700,000 Sudanese have fled their homes. This is why I need your help urgently. Thanks to a generous matching grant from one supporter, every donation you give to allow the Vulnerable People Project's Hope for Sudan Fund to provide EMERGENCY, LIFE-SUSTAINING REFUGEE KITS to families in crisis will be DOUBLED, dollar for dollar. This means your $100 tax-deductible gift to provide one family with EMERGENCY REFUGEE KIT containing food, shelter, and other life necessities will automatically be doubled to $200, to provide TWO KITS for TWO FAMILIES. So, can you pitch in $100 or even $50 right now? With the borders being flooded by Sudanese refugees fleeing the war zone and potential genocide, we only have days to act to fund KITS for 1,000 families and get the supplies on the ground to our partner organization. Please click here or below to watch a short news update from the region as well as chip into our campaign. Timor, I need to be straight with you. Launching an operation in Sudan was not on my list for this spring and, therefore, not included in the budget I created for 2023. So this means, every dollar we raise is going directly into our newly formed Hope for Sudan Campaign and our allies who are now on the ground. Can you pitch in with a donation of just $100? Not only will your $100 save a family from starvation, exposure, and sickness.  It will also be doubled to $200, to save two families. With our critical goal to raise $100,000 to provide 1,000 Sudanese Christian and other vulnerable families with EMERGENCY, LIFE-SUSTAINING REFUGEE KITS. These kits include a tent to protect families from the sun and rainy season that just began as well as food and other life sustaining necessities. And they only cost $100 per family. See the image at the bottom of my email for what these tents will look like! Please chip in $100, which will be doubled to $200, to secure TWO Christian or vulnerable refugee families with shelter, food, and other life necessities to survive. Or, if you aren't able to do that, please donate $50, which will be doubled to $100, to help ONE receive an Emergency, Life-Sustaining Refugee Kit. We only have days to act and secure tents and food for 1,000 families in one of our border refugee camps. Please keep this desperate situation in your prayers. For the Sudanese Christians and families,  Jason Jones Founder, Movie to Movement & The Vulnerable People Project Host, The Jason Jones Show P.S. - After you contribute to our Hope for Sudan Campaign and this generous $24,000 Matching Grant, please forward this urgent message to all of your friends and family. Or simply post the link to our Matching Grant donation page (https://movietomovement.givingfuel.com/vpp-sudan-matching-grant) on your social media profiles asking your friends to chip in.

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Emnet's Story...

Here is an amazing story from the Ayele's newsletter...this is why we do this:

One of the key people behind all [of our] information is the Chief Administrator of the Hamer Woreda. Woreda means district. His name is Emnet, which means “faith”. When children, adults or even animals have been ordered to be cast out and killed, they are called Mingis. Emnet is from the Hamer tribe and he was a Mingi that was saved, by the grace of God! This is his story...

First of all, we ought to tell you some of the reasons one would become a Mingi. One of the reasons, as you all know, is that a mother was not married before she got pregnant with a baby, therefore the baby would be a Mingi. Another reason is if a child should fall and chip a tooth, they become a Mingi. Also, if their top teeth grow in before their bottom teeth, they become a Mingi. The last one we’ll mention is that if your mother was nursing you while she conceived another child, both you and your unborn sibling become Mingis! There are so many more ridiculous reasons one could become a Mingi, but there isn’t enough space to write all of them. We will tell you, though, that 30% of the Hamer children are born as or become Mingis.

When Emnet was 3 or 4 years old, he tripped and fell, which caused one of his front teeth to break. Therefore, he became a Mingi. So, his parents were told to kill their son. However, Emnet’s father loved him too much, so he hid him for 4 years in a bush instead. However, after 4 years, the tribe found out that Emnet was still alive, so they ordered his father to kill him. He still wouldn’t do it, though. Because Emnet’s father was rich, no one really wanted to threaten his life for not being obedient to the cultural ritual. But, the pressure was still intense. In fact, it was too intense for his father to handle any longer. So, Emnet was taken to one of his father’s friend’s house for about 6 months. However, the people around this friend’s home found out that he was Mingi and wanted to kill him. During this entire time, Emnet had no idea why his life was being threatened. He went from place to place, and he always tried to go back to his tribe, but they threatened to kill him every time. And, because his father wouldn’t kill him, anyone had the right to do it.

Emnet started going to a government school, which was in town. Therefore, no one knew about him and he was safe. He was educated about harmful practices and realized that his culture was not the norm and that the superstitions that came along with it were false. But, he still loved his tribe and wanted to help them. Finally, when Emnet was 16 years old, he went back to his tribe, performed a cleansing ceremony and was rid of his “Mingi”status. After getting his high school diploma, Emnet went to teacher-training school and taught for three years. After that, he got involved in politics, which has brought him to where he is now: Chief Administrator of the Hamer Woreda.

Emnet is very interested in the work we are doing and is excited that we are wanting to help his people. He has given us suggestions as far as how we can help to change the evil practices of this tribe. He was the one that gave us the idea of offering the mothers education, because he believes that not all of them would want to leave their home towns. He has been very helpful and very encouraging to us in providing information and suggesting ideas that we hadn’t thought of before.

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I know most people don’t share because they feel that us bloggers don’t need their “tiny” social share. But here’s the truth…

I built this blog piece by piece, one small share at a time, and will continue to do so. So thank you so much for your support, my reader.

A share from you would seriously help a lot with the growth of this blog

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