Ebele Mark
Ebele Mark is a sixteen-year-old boy who now resides at Cornerstone Children’s Home. He has a great love for soccer, an intense interest in education, and huge appetite for beef, greens and posho (a traditional Sudanese dish made from mashed flour). Currently, Ebele is on a holiday break from school, but will soon be returning to school to begin his fourth year of secondary school.
Ebele has never experienced the love and guidance of a father. His father was a soldier in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army. When Ebele was still a young boy, his father was killed in the civil war between the black Christians and animists of the south and the Arab-Muslims of the north. Ebele struggled to survive with his ailing mother who became increasingly weak as the years wore on.
But hope came back into Ebele’s life when Pastor Juma John picked him from a refugee camp and brought him to stay at Cornerstone Children’s Home. Ebele thanks God for his new life at Cornerstone where he now has the opportunity to live, learn, and grow along with other boys and girls who have, like him, suffered enormous hardships.
Ebele wants to work in law enforcement in the fture, because he believes criminals should be brought to justice. He has a heart for the victims of the world and feels a duty to help them recover from the crimes they have suffered.