Juba Rotary Club has offered six scholarships to children at the Juba orphanage with grants from clubs in Denmark, Sweden and the United States.
The presentation of the sponsorship took place today at the orphanage.Michael Elmquist, who started Juba Rotary Club, told SCR New that the institution will pay school fees for a whole year for the six students.
The students, all in secondary school, had to drop out from school because they did not pay their fees.
Mr. Elmquist says the sponsorship will continue until the students finish school.
Orphaned at the age of nine, Peter Ladu, now a form three student at Juba Day School, joined the orphanage in 2002, two years after his parents died.
He is one of the Rotary Club’s beneficiaries.
He said he would like to go up to the university, graduate on geography and become a minister.
Juba orphanage was built in the 60s to provide education to children that lost their families during the long civil war.
Now it operates as a home for 70 orphans, funded by the Central Equatoria State government.
Abdul Wajo, the supervisor of the orphanage, said the support from the government is often not enough and the institution has difficulties to run its daily activities and give a balanced diet to the children.
Juba Rotary Club has so far donated 4,000.00 US dollars to the orphanage to rehabilitate its toilets and provide clean water.
The Club has completed the anaesthetic equipment for the Maternity Ward at Juba Teaching Hospital and it is engaged in another five education and health projects.