In 2005, a Baptist missionary in South Sudan asked for help with the many medical problems he was encountering in the small village of Akot, South Sudan. Dr. Deal and his family as well as dozens of other volunteers had already been working in the rudimentary facility nearby.
Figure 3 Dr. Deal treating a child with severe malaria
Figure 4 Dr. Deal, Billy White (deceased) and Russell Deal mapping out the facility site.
Glenn Keyes and his team of architects donated their time to design the buildings
Under the supervision of Daven Acker (US) and Peter Njenga (Kenya), local workers built the facility over a course of around eleven months
The facility, named the Akot Medical Mission, opened in 2006 with a celebration by local tribal and church leaders.
Figure 6 Celebrating the opening of the Akot Medical Mission
Figure 7 The completed Akot Medical Mission as seen from the air in 2009.
Resources, such as expert builders and the brickmaking machine were also shared with a nearby NGO, Hope For Humanity, for the building of Hope and Resurrection Secondary School in the village of Atiaba.
Figure 8 Hope and Resurrection Secondary School
The Hope and Resurrection School has continued to thrive. Unfortunately, the medical mission was entrusted to a US nonprofit organization which managed the facility for around three years before abandoning it. Since that time, the South Sudan Ministry of Health in collaboration with CUAAM (Doctors with Africa), have controlled the site. Insufficient funding led to the grounds and buildings falling into disrepair.
Until now.