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History: The Beginning of Atita

Fr. Eduard Hiiboro the initiator, Atita came out as an intervention direct from his life which has remarkable and indelible experience right at his childhood. When he was just 9 months old his beloved mother was killed in a northern government military raid on his village of Source – Yubu in Southern Sudan and his grandmother suckled him and eventually took refuge with him to the refugees’ settlement in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, where they stayed for five years until 1972, when they returned to the Sudan.

The same founder after repatriation to the Sudan, with his irregular academic background suffered much to set firm his educational adventure. In his life, yet after refugees’ experience, again in the Sudan he had several of his months spent at the camps of Sudanese internal displaced persons in Khartoum the Sudanese capital. In 1994 after his priestly ordination he was sent to work for and with about 40,000 Sudanese refugees in the Republic of Central Africa, where he spent seven years.

All these experiences in the life of Fr. Eduard Kussala have signalled true human negligence leading to hopeless tragedy and rewards. This experience is strongly felt in his priestly ordination’s motto and intention back in 1994, “ We are fools for Christ’s sake… (1Cor. 4:10) ” and the intention for ordination reads; “My Lord, help me bring new life and hope and courage into the hearts of the weary, the overburdened, the discouraged and the tempted…God have mercy on my diseased parents”. This intention spontaneously came from the heart of Fr. Eduard, who had abundance of these traumatic sentiments, even before he felt the need to invite others to found ‘Atita Solidarity Services’.

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