Our Story
The John Dau Foundation’s Duk Lost Boys Clinic has provided hope to the people of Duk Payuel, South Sudan and the surrounding community. The clinic opened its doors in May 2007 with a mission to provide life-saving healthcare free of charge to a population with no other access to primary medical services.
In December 2013, South Sudan entered a period of civil war. The clinic was thereafter severely damaged by various armed groups. Despite the continuous threat of violence, the John Dau Foundation (JDF) has continued to provide healthcare services to the local population and those displaced by the conflict.
We are currently working with internally displaced persons at three different locations: Poktap, Ayueldit and Panyagor. We have also taken part in a mission to those islands in the Nile River where a significant population remains largely cut off from the rest of the country. This isolation is only exacerbated by regular floods caused by the six-month rainy season. However, we are pleased to be expanding our efforts to establish a more permanent presence on and around those islands.
JDF provides basic medical services to diagnose and treat common illnesses and specific medical disorders indigenous to this region. We also provide trauma care, OB/GYN services and outreach programs to further health promotion campaigns, vaccinations and community health worker training. Our extensive maternity care services help to minimize miscarriages. Additionally, the clinic provides testing and counseling for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
One of our most important missions is nutrition screening and therapeutic feeding programs to address severe acute malnutrition. We serve internally displayed persons who may be coming (often on foot) from tens to hundreds of miles away to escape violence. The lack of food and critical nutrition often seen in times of conflict puts children under five years old especially at risk. Children under five years old are especially endangered during times of conflict when these resources can become scarce.
Our Services
Health
Residents of South Sudan suffer from widespread preventable disease, endemic famine, rampant malnourishment and civil war. Because of a shortage of nutrition and basic health services, 1 in 5 children die before they reach the age of five. Maternal mortality is particularly high as well.
We screen for malnutrition, administer nutrition programs, provide mothers with pre- and post-natal care, and deliver treatment and immunization for preventable diseases largely unknown in the West.
Nutrition
Residents of South Sudan suffer from widespread preventable disease, endemic famine, rampant malnourishment and civil war. Because of a shortage of nutrition and basic health services, 1 in 5 children die before they reach the age of five. Maternal mortality is particularly high as well.
We screen for malnutrition, administer nutrition programs, provide mothers with pre- and post-natal care, and deliver treatment and immunization for preventable diseases largely unknown in the West.
Education
When education is created and maintained at all times, even in the most difficult war-torn circumstances, the country has hope and is sure to bound back to life.
Education in all different forms will break the cycle of poverty. Education has an uplifting effect on all aspects of society including increasing girls’ education and lowering the number of diseases and prenatal deaths.
Education gives people the ability to respect others opinions, respect human rights, and make informed decision for forward movement of a country, something a country like South Sudan dearly needs now.
South Sudan Nation Builders is establishing an advocacy program for scholarships to fund South Sudanese students with excellent academic standings to enroll in American educational institutions. We require that these students will return to South Sudan with the drive to help South Sudan be productive and peaceful
Employment
Our Clinics are staffed by local residents and healthcare workers, and are supported by a staff of cooks, cleaners, remote health workers and facility and organisational administration in South Sudan.
John Dau Foundation proved critical employment in the region with over 80 staff members who a employed and fed by us.
Our Metrics
After 14 years of pursuing our mission, JDF via its 11 medical facilities and nutrition centers have provided life-saving medical services to over 1,700,000 patients!
We severved 1,700,000 patients, and the JDF facilities have delivered over 55,000 babies.
Identified, counseled, and treated 1390 patients with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, leprosy, and other highly infectious diseases.
Provided 667,000 individuals suffering from malnutrition with therapeutic feeding programs and treatment.
Pre- and Post-Natal Care for over 52,000 mothers who gave birth at our facilities.
Vaccinated over 46,000 children.
Hosted countless trainings and educational courses focused on public health, preventing the spread of disease, and the safe delivery of newborns.
Miracle doctors” from the Utah John Moran Eye Center restored eyesight to 600 blind patients in 2011 and 2012, with commitment to continue at 300 patients per year for the next 5 years to come.
De-wormed over 55,000 patients so far.
JDF hired 243 full-time employees with over additional 50 seasonal/temporal workers making JDF the largest employer in this region.
John Dau Foundation was the first entity ever in this region to issue birth certificates.
Mobilized and together with our partner JDF transported, fed, cared for and help fixed cliff plates’ deformity for 34 patients.