Not very many people I know are really prepared to die. It seems fewer young people than ever are really prepared for the realities of adult life and responsibilities.

Meals have to be prepared. One even has to prepare to go to bed, to church, to a ball game. Farmers have to prepare for planting in the Spring, and for harvest in the Fall. Winter is spent preparing, repairing, getting ready for the demands of the days and months ahead.

Here in North America, we are prepared to help ourselves. We have all kinds of resources to help us prepare.

In Sudan, having suffered marginalisation, raids and bombings of villages, schools, hospitals, church and marketplaces, they have little or nothing left. Buildings and institutions, both civil and government have been destroyed. Small land-holdings had to be abandoned because of genocidal attacks, rape and pillage. Anything worthwhile was stolen and shipped north in Sudan. Tin roofs, windows, window frames, doors and rafters were dismantled and shipped north. Slaves were captured and sent north to face the horrors of being owned and abused by northern Arabs.

Now they have a “Peace Agreement” on paper. But that 400 pages of paper only open the door slightly for the preparation of a peaceful and prosperous future for the south of Sudan. Nothing but signatures came with the paper.

Southern Sudan has unlimited natural resources. They have people who are ready to work and prosper. But they don’t have the tools.

Agriculture is their greatest natural resource. But little hand hoes and little plots of gardens will provide only subsistence living.

Cal Bombay Ministries is prepared to help them help themselves through the establishing of the Savannah Cooperative Farms. Mass food production, both on the Savannah Farmers Cooperative SFC) farms, and on smaller locally worked farms for which the SFC will provide mechanised land preparation and planting, will bring prosperity. It will renew human dignity.

By helping the local farmers to produce quadrupled yields from their land, they with have produce to sell. They will then clothe, house and educate their children. With growth of their own farms, they will be able to buy their own machinery eventually.

But they need our help in order to help themselves. We want to help them lay aside the hand hoe and the poverty attached to it, and substitute the wheel of a tractor in their hands in order to make their land yield abundant food, thus killing the dependency syndrome now current.

Browse through this website and see what IS being done, and what needs to be done to prepare the south of Sudan for its future.

You can’t imagine the industries and jobs that will be created when the land begins to yield its riches.