The Ayual Community
The Ayual Community is a group within the Dinka tribe whose geographical area is in Southern Sudan in Central Bor between two major clans, the Kongor and Dacuek. The Ayual clan, along with the Awulian and Dacuek clans, belongs to the Wangulei District. These 3 clans are collectively referred as Nyuak Payam. It is a community with complex culture, beliefs, traditions, customs, norms, and values. Among the most solemn community activities are wrestling, dancing, marriage, and worship. Like many other communities in Sudan, the Ayual people experienced tremendous and mournful events during Sudan's civil war. Almost half of the population, including the community's brightest members, died as a result of twenty-one years of fighting between the SPLA and the Khartoum's Islamic government. Three quarters of the remaining Ayual population live in exile as a result of this war. The Ayual Community is comprised of eight major sections, namely Rordior, PanYak, Pawiir, Pan Alak, Pan Akoy, Dinguyo, Acath, and Anyang. The Ayual population is estimated at 40,000, of which ninety percent are illiterate. However, the Ayual Community itself is working hard so current and future generations have access to better education within the community. Despite these efforts, there are still numerous difficulties facing the community. The Ayual Community's economy depends on agriculture. Animals, crops, and fish are the main source of livelihood. Commerce opportunities and better living standards are slowly beginning to emerge as the result of peace in the nation and efforts of community members, both in Sudan and in exile.

Ayual Community Development Association (“ACDA”)
The idea began as Ayual Community students from both Primary and Secondary schools in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya brainstormed and debated on educational, political, economic and social matters after day schools. It become a reality when former head chief of Wangulei and senior SPLA officer, Bul Kuer Manyok Duot, stepped in and asked the students to move forward with such a powerful vision. It was Bul, who later, brought this idea to the church leaders to help with implementation. Rev. Deng Chol Deng, a senior priest of Episcopal Church of Sudan, recognized the idea as crucial and extended it to community members. Rev. Bul Garang and Rev. Simon Yak, among others, become active in the process. In 2000, the Ayual Community in Kakuma Refugee Camp, elected nine leadership teams, headed by Malual Ajak Mabil. Their main function was to provide basic educational needs such as books, and perhaps establish a learning center for Ayual Community students. The organization was known as the Ayual Students and Welfare Association (ASWA). In the same year, David Biar Gak, who had at that time just left for the United States, along with Abraham Chol Alaak, were elected to help organize the Ayual Community Lost Boys and Girls, once they all resettled in the United States. This important idea of continuing the association's vision continued and spread to other areas where Ayual Community members lived. As a result, ACDA now has branches around the globe, including the USA, Australia, Canada, Uganda, Kenya, and Sudan. When ASWA's objectives expanded beyond the scope of education, the Ayual intellectuals at their meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2003, proposed that the name be changed to the Ayual Community Development Association. ACDA was incorporated under David Biar Leadership in March, 2004 with the assistance of the Blank Rome Law in Philadelphia.

ACDA’s mission
ACDA’s mission is to improve the existing conditions and future prospects of the current generation of the Ayual Community (which represents the numbers a village in Southern Sudan). This community had been adversely affected socially, economically, emotionally, physically, educationally and politically—protecting human rights since Sudan government had completely lost a sense of humanity. ACDA’s mission is to look into the future. ACDA was incorporated in 2004 to help the Ayual Community by alleviating many of the problems facing the current generations of the Ayual community, including lack of education, health care facilities, medicine, sharing of resources and freedom.

Their hopes and dreams
The hopes and dreams of the members of the Ayual Community Development Association are to obtain an American education and to some day return to Sudan to help re-build a Country that has suffered a 21-year civil war. They know education is the key to the success of their mission. Your tax-deductible donation will be used for college tuition assistance for the “Lost Boys” here in the U.S. and will also provide direct and immediate support to the Ayual citizens in Sudan, in the form of food, school supplies for their brothers remain behind and medical care.

Their problems
Many of the young people don’t qualify for financial aid from our government fund, therefore, they needs your support to help them pay for their higher education. They are all eager to have college degrees but due to limited finances, they can’t afford to continue their education.

Your donation
Your support will absolutely make a difference in the live of these young people who have found this association. Your contribution will make them citizens of the world by offering them educational support since most of them know that education is a medium and a master key to every aspect of life.

Location of these young people
ACDA members are all over the country and they all have a common mission whereby they want to find a way they can be more supportive to themselves and also back home (Motherland Southern Sudan) since young people are the next generations who can live on to honor their parents after death

Health needs
Health needs are huge problems for them because many of them work on entry level jobs which don’t offer benefits. Therefore, your contribution will also assist some members of this community in America with medical expenses. For example, some is needed for dental replacement because many of them have lost their teeth due to traditional culture initiation.

Annual gathering
Also since many of them were young when they left, they would like to sponsor an annual social gathering in order to socialize in their mother tongue and teach themselves how to promote social life, this would also be a time to share the resources among themselves, such as information on literacy on how to obtain legal documents from the US government, like immigration document /status, or they might invited someone from the government agencies who handle resettlement programs. Your contribution will restored their hope and bring them with a mission to pursue.

Their goals
ACDA's mission is to promote positive change in the Ayual Community. This includes helping to create opportunities in the lives of young people and their families and improving the quality of life. Some of the ACDA's current efforts include:

• Sending books and supplies to the schools
• Providing uniforms and lunch for students
• Promoting primary general health as disease is rampant due to poor sanitation
• Training young mothers in child development
• Distributing mosquito nets since the community depends on upon fish for food.