1. Sunrise Sudan, an advocacy group dedicated to furthering educational opportunities and reconciliation efforts in South Sudan, spent June remembering Manute Bol, the basketball star and humanitarian activist profiled in The Defender.  “I want to enable kids to go to school here, between Muslims, Darfurians, Sudanese and the other countries,” Bol said in a YouTube video made before his death. “If they live around here and want to go to school here, they can go to school here. And I think that would be the best thing that I did for my people.”

    Sunrise Sudan, an advocacy group dedicated to furthering educational opportunities and reconciliation efforts in South Sudan, spent June remembering Manute Bol, the basketball star and humanitarian activist profiled in The Defender. 

    “I want to enable kids to go to school here, between Muslims, Darfurians, Sudanese and the other countries,” Bol said in a YouTube video made before his death. “If they live around here and want to go to school here, they can go to school here. And I think that would be the best thing that I did for my people.”

  2. Sudan: Fresh Scars on the Body Politic →

    The Defender is about Manute Bol, the 7’7” Sudanese NBA basketball star who worked until his death to make things better in his home country. We released the story the same day Sudanese voted for independence. The struggles continue.