From Executive Director, Rev. Samuel Juma
“In September of 1996, my wife Esther and I started the ministry of Fulaa Lifeline International, which is now incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The organization of Fulaa Lifeline International, Inc., was formed in order to assist newly arrived African refugees in the metropolitan Washington DC area. Some sponsoring agencies have provided inadequately for scores of refugees. For example, in September 1996, one sponsoring agency put a family of nine Sudanese refugees in an apartment in south Arlington with only five mattresses -- no food, no furniture, no clothes, no introduction or assistance in how to survive in the United States. It was out of this experience that Fulaa was born.”
Fulaa Lifeline International, Inc., is a nonprofit, nonpolitical Christian organization dedicated to providing relief and support to the displaced people of southern Sudan. It is also dedicated to providing support to pastors and local churches in the refugee camps in Uganda and Kenya, and displaced churches in southern Sudan. Due to the political turmoil and civil war in Africa there are thousands of displaced people in southern Sudan and in the refugee camps of Uganda and Kenya.
In the metropolitan Washington DC area, Fulaa ministers to refugees from southern Sudan and other African nations. Since the signing of the peace treaty in Sudan in 2005, Fulaa's focus has shifted to the assistance for refugees seeking to repatriate from the camps in Uganda and Kenya back to their homeland in South Sudan.
Currently, we are focusing our efforts on the area surrounding the town on Nimule situated near the border with Uganda. Working closely with a church there, Fulaa sponsors an orphanage with more than sixty children in residence. We are also assisting with micro-economic and educational projects.
