Rasmussen College to Participate in Walksudan- Fargo

9/11/2008

Rasmussen College in Fargo will join the Walksudan-Fargo. Rasmussen is a business college dedicated to educating business leaders. The school will encourage its students to participate in the Walksudan – Fargo. For those who do not know, Walksudan is a peoples based movement started by Sean Fahey and Jeremiah Hammerling of the Endlesseye Film NPO to raise awareness for Panyijiar County and Southern Sudan Community Development. The walk will occur in Fargo North Dakota on October 4^th, 2008.

In this exercise, interested people are invited to pledge their feet as well as their financial support for PACODES’ Library project and Southern Sudan development.

The walk is meant to imitate the journeys of the Lost Boys in the jungles of East Africa after forceful displacement from Sudan at younger age in the late 1980s. It is also meant to support Lost Boys charitable organizations and in particular PACODES.

Walksudan began last summer in Peoria and Chicago Illinois. This fall it begins in Fargo and will extend to other cities. To get people to walk, PACODES leaders and affiliates visit schools and public places to give directions and sign up interested people to join the walk.

It is in that capacity that through the help of Abraham Bidhal Gatwich an accounting & Finance student at Rasmussen College, also a PACODES member and Beth Marie - a Librarian at the College that on September 9^th Machien J. Luoi was invited to present to students on PACODES, Panyijiar Library Project and Walksudan- Fargo. The presentation included watching PACODES’ Walksudan video, PowerPoint on PACODES’ Library project and Walksudan. Students, teachers and workers at the college attended the presentation. The presentation took place in the morning and evening. At the end of the day it was clear that Rasmussen students and faculty members were interested and will join the Walksudan – Fargo. They took sign up sheets, pledge sheets and maps of the Walksudan route.

PACODES’ members hope Walksudan Fargo will help “raise money and friends” to support the organization’s mission. Proceeds from Walksudan- Fargo will go towards building the Panyijiar Library.

By PACODES