Alliance for the Lost Boys of Sudan
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Alliance for the Lost Boys of Sudan is a 501 C-3 all-volunteer foundation in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

, established in 2004, to meet the health and educational needs of Lost Boys
Lost Boys of Sudan
The Lost Boys of Sudan is the name given to the groups of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced and/or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War , about 2.5 million killed and millions were displaced...

 and their siblings living in Africa
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 and the United States
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. The Alliance also provides humanitarian aid in Southern Sudan to include the construction of X-ray clinics and medicine for local hospitals, houses and beds for children in Sudanese orphanages, funds to aid in the construction of schools and school supplies for students, goat programs for women at risk, distribution of solar lights to rural villagers and various other projects which can be seen at their website Alliance for the Lost Boys of Sudan.In addition to their humanitarian efforts in Southern Sudan, the Alliance has assisted over fifty eight Lost Boys and US Sudanese with college
College
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tuition and books and has provided medical assistance to over 100 Lost Boys and girls living in Jacksonville, Fl.

You can read more about the works of the Alliance on their website at Alliance for the Lost Boys of Sudan.

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