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Since the 1990s, through the Windle Trust Uganda, the DAFI Fund has supported scholarships for refugees, internally displaced, marginalized and conflict-affected communities in Sudan and South Sudan. The DAFI program caters for refugees throughout the country especially those from South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Congo among others. [3]
The first people who migrated to the US from South Sudan arrived in the mid-1980s as a result of the civil wars in Sudan, settling in places such as Chicago. [2]This migration continued in the 90s, when some South Sudanese were established in other places such as Maine (settling eventually in cities such as Portland and Lewiston), [3] Des Moines (Iowa), [4] and Omaha, Nebraska (where in 1998 ...
Sudanese or South Sudanese immigrated to the U.S. from different regions of Sudan due to political disagreements, educational and vocational opportunities or for family reunification, as well. According to estimates for 2015 to 2019 from The Migration Policy Institute, 46,700 Sudanese immigrants lived in the U.S.
The number of South Sudanese outside South Sudan has sharply increased since the beginning of the struggle for independence from Sudan. Around half a million South Sudanese have left the country as refugees, either permanently or as temporary workforce, leading to the establishment of the South Sudanese diaspora population. [citation needed]
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Following the Addis Ababa Peace Agreement between the Egyptian government and the South Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM), Sudanese students were granted free education in Egyptian universities under the "Egyptian Scholarship for Sudanese Students" program. Between 1972 and 1982 Sudanese students were granted scholarships each year.
St. Mary's University College was founded in 2008, as a collaborative effort between the South Sudanese Ministry of Gender, Social Welfare and Religious Affairs and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, with the cooperation of the Volunteers' Organization for International Co-operation OVCI la Nostra Famiglia (INGO which has been continuously working in South Sudan since 1983).
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