Aguer Atem Deng Ajang is a co-founder of a not-for-profit organisation known as Jonglei Orphans Scholarship Education (JOSE) founded on April 19/2016 in Amarillo, Texas.She is 14 years old and working hard to help educate South Sudanese orphans.
She was born in Kakuma Refugee Camp in 2013 and moved to the United States in 2006. Aguer Atem Deng Ajang is not an ordinary child when it comes to helping others. Aguer life changed in December 2013 when her great uncle was killed in South Sudan.
The life of Aguer changed from ordinary childhood in 2013 to the one that needed to fix something in South Sudan. On 18/12/2013, Aguer witnesses an emotional break down in her family when the mother heard the news of the death of her uncle. Bul Manyang was an SPLA officer who also a father figures to Aguiar's mother. Bul was killed with Ajak Yen at Panedpandiar when Peter Gatdet rebelled to revenge the apparent death of Nuer in Juba. Shocked by a situation, Aguer recorded her first video on social condemning war in South Sudan. Even if she was born in the refugee camp, Aguer heard stories after the suffering from her parents. Such stories prompted her to join Maduk Malual in the founding of a not-for-profit organisation known as Jonglei Orphans Scholarship Education (JOSE) on April 19/2016 in Amarillo, Texas. When the war broker resumed in July of 2016, Aguer posted her frustration and said.
“I am disappointed; I am disappointed in South Sudan right now. I called my grandmother this morning and she told us that there is fighting in Juba. She just bought a new house there and we were going to visit. Our plans to visit are demolished now. I want that we want to stop. South Sudan; I am serious we need to stop the fighting. We need to put an end to it. We need to become a peaceful nation.”
Since then, Aguer and her colleagues at JOSE went ahead with the plan seeking a donation from the Americans friends and other well wishes to help South Sudanese orphans living in South Sudanese or East Africa. Between 2016 and 2018 JOSE gave a financial support to 19 orphans, 8 in primary and 11 in secondary. Aguer in her first interview today, an emotional Aguer articulates a need and reason why South Sudanese orphans should be supported.
