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Applied in 2007

College education program

Alliance for the Lost Boys of Sudan

Program Facts

  • Paid (FTE) Staff Working: 0
  • Program Participants Last Year: 100
  • Meets about 2 time(s) with each participant per month
  • Participants remain in the program for 60 months

Volunteers

Volunteers per month: 10

Volunteers are trained:

Volunteer Training
AlwaysRarely

Volunteers are actively recruited:

Volunteer Recruiting
AlwaysRarely

Board Activities

  • Formally reviews the performance of the chief executive officer at least once every two years.
  • Formally approves the budget.
  • Ensures that arrangements with outside fund raising firms are made in writing.
  • Receives information about the financial arrangements with such firms and, if applicable, the anticipated portion of the gross proceeds that goes to the organization.
  • Has formally approved a conflict of interest policy and regularly monitors it to ensure adherence.
  • Receives, at least quarterly, the organization's financial statement.
  • Receives, at least annually, an auditor's management letter and report.
  • Convenes an audit committee.

Outcomes & Measures: (self-reported)

Outcome 1
Through monies earned thus far, we have provided college textbooks/tuition for up to 27 US Lost Boys. In addition to scholarships received from our foundation, we have also obtained outside grants for 5 Lost Boys totaling $6000.00 per student to be paid over a two-year period. We were recently awarded $30,000. in scholarship grants by Florida Community College of Jacksonville and are currently seeking additional funding from other sources such as the Samaritan Award.

Measure
We gage our success by the number of scholarship recipients and graduates, grades and achievements earned by participants, the success of our scholarship recipiants- not only in the class room, but also the work place.

Outcome 2
In Africa- We contributed financially to the building of a hospital and a school in the Bor region of Southern Sudan. We helped to pay for a water pump for another village and sent backpacks filled with school supplies to additional villages in Southern Sudan. We provided survival packs capable of supporting 38 displaced families in the Bahr-El-Ghazel region of Southern Sudan. These kits included blankets, tarpaulins for cover, sickles for cultivating, fishing lures, mosquito netting, pots for cooking and expandable water jugs. We also provided text- books and school supplies to schools in the Daga Post region of South Sudan and most recently, we purchased 30 beds for an orphanage in the Equatorial region of South Sudan. We partner with various organizations on a regular basis to provide humanitarian relief in Southern Sudan.

For a complete list of recent projects visit our website at www.allianceforthelostboys.com and click on "Newsletters."

Measure
We measure our outcomes by the thank you notes and reports we recieve from those we assist in S.Sudan.

Outcome 3
Medical- Through our medical program, we provide medical and dental assistance to local Lost Boys and their families as funds allow. We obtained corrective cosmetic surgery for one of our local Lost Boys who was severely scarred after being tortured and left to die by Sudanese government soldiers. We procured and helped to defray the costs of cataract surgery for another Lost Boy who was partially blind in one eye. We provided surgery for another Lost Boy to remove a piece of a stick that became lodged in his toe as he walked across Southern Sudan over ten years ago. We provided minor surgery for another Lost Boy due to an undisclosed infection. We have also provided treatment, free of charge, to approximately 90 local Lost Boys and their families for the treatment of potentially fatal parasites such as, Schistosomiasis and Strongyloids.

Measure
We measure the outcome of this program by the lives that have been changed through it.

Outcome 4
We speak across the U.S. to business groups, civil and religious organizations, and schools and colleges in an effort to bring awareness to the plight of the Lost Boys and the less publicized Lost Girls, the needs of our foundation and the genocide that occured in Southern Sudan killing over 2.5 million people and displacing millions of people.

Measure
We gage our outcome by the written comments we recieve. please click on:http://www.allianceforthelostboys.com/newsletters/survey_comments.pdf

Change Process: (self-reported)

We believe that these young men/women are the future of their country. Their lives and that of their people are filled with hope when receiving the education that they once only dreamed of. We believe that in helping them to achieve their goal of obtaining a college degree that we are helping them to become successful, independent and productive members of society.

In helping them to receive needed medical attention, we are providing them with a healthy start towards a new future.