South Sudan
Juba Integrated Primary
Field report · June 2026Juba · Gulu · Lira · KampalaVol. 9 · free · take one
Est. 2018
○Live in Juba
Every kid
deserves
a desk.
We fund primary and secondary education for refugee children across six partner schools in South Sudan and Uganda. No salaries. No offices. Just tuition, uniforms, books, and meals.
Improving lives through education
Volunteer-run since 2018
Six partner schools
99% to the children
0
Supported last year
0
Partner schools
~0%
Operating overhead
Est. 2018
Volunteer-run
NewsJune 2026
Third in
the nation.
South Sudan just released the results of the Certificate of Secondary Education, the national exam that 45,776 students sat last December at 521 schools across the country.
Kenyi Lado Lawon, a student at Juba Integrated High, one of our six partner schools, placed third in the entire nation with 88.3% in the science section. Only two students in the country scored higher.
Congratulations, Kenyi. We are so proud. ✦
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Why we exist
Our founder
walked it first.
Gabriel Akim NyokFounder & Chairman
Gabriel was born in 1983 near the Nile. Being born in a clinic was rare enough back then that his middle name Akim, "doctor" in Dinka, came from it. He was two when civil war reached his village.
Red Cross volunteers carried him out of South Sudan to a UNHCR camp in northern Kenya, where he grew up with his brother as an orphan. He was one of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, over 20,000 children separated from their families by the war.
In 2006, the U.S. government brought him to California. He worked, went to school, and became a citizen. In 2011 he went back to visit the camps and saw children living the same life he had, and started sending a few of them to school out of his own paycheck.
Helping Hands for South Sudan is that same effort, formalized. Gabriel still doesn't take a salary. The board is all-volunteer. Gabriel walks the schools and personally confirms head counts before tuition is paid.
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Six partner
schools.
Two in South Sudan. Four in Uganda, where many South Sudanese refugee families have settled. Every one of them serves children who would otherwise have no access to school.
South Sudan
Juba Integrated High
Uganda
Broader Vision School
Uganda
Gulu Primary
Uganda
Gulu Central High
Uganda
St. Gracious Secondary
The founder
was a Lost Boy
himself.
This year's focus
More girls
in school.
When a family in South Sudan can only send one kid to school, they almost always choose the boy. As a result, girls are the most under-educated group in the country. We're flipping that — sending more girls than boys this year.
"Educate a man, you educate an individual.
Educate a woman, you educate a nation."
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The 1,500
Faces, not
a number.
A snapshot of recent days at our partner schools. Real kids, real classrooms.
...and hundreds more like them. ✦
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In their words
From the
community.
Comments and notes from former students and South Sudanese community members on our Facebook page.
“A huge THANK YOU to Helping Hands South Sudan. Your support is changing lives and shaping the future of South Sudanese youth through education.”
— Mayen Aguto Agot
“Many thanks to Helping Hands for educating thousands of students across East Africa and South Sudan. Your support has transformed many lives, and our nation's future is bright.”
— Achuony Atem Akuak
“It healed most of the refugee children who had no access to education. Now they stand firm and proud of the education they have acquired.”
— Jooh Riak Alier-Aguek
Do the math yourself
$500 sends a child
to school for a year.
Don't take our word for it. These are the seven line items from our school budget. Build the year, or cover the piece you can.
tap what you want to cover ↓
HHSS · School Year Receipt
One Student · East Africa · 2026
1× Tuition (1 year)
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1× School uniform
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1× Books + notebooks (1 yr)
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1× Daily meals
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1× Transportation
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1× Supplies
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1× National exam fee
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Total
$0.00
501(c)(3) · EIN 82-5215402 · tax-deductible
Cover one line or the whole year. Every line is real.
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501(c)(3) · EIN 82-5215402 · Tax-deductible · ~1% overhead