Author: Martha

Nuba Water Project was founded in 2007 by Denver businessman Steve Riley and two Sudanese refugees, George Tuto and Ibrahim Agor.  George and Ibrahim, determined to help their people in the Nuba Mountains, worked with Steve to identify a focus for their work…water.  In Sudan, some women and children walk up to six hours daily to fetch water that will likely make them sick. Besides preventing disease and death, providing a local source of clean water frees the women to do other daily household tasks and allows the children to go to school. The motto became “Clean Water Brings Life.”

Our work is made possible by our direct connections with key people living in the Nuba Mountains.

Nuba Water Project is not affiliated with any government or religious institution. We are a non-profit 501c3 organization committed to financial accountability at all levels of our organization.

CURRENT CRISIS IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS (SOUTH KORDOFAN)

After South Sudan gained its independence on July 9th, the government in Khartoum began another brutal repression of the Nuba people living in South Kordofan. UN, and other reports, speak of mass killings of civilians, indiscriminate bombing, burning of churches and persecution of opponents to the Islamist regime led by the dictator Omar al-Bashir. Bashir is under indictment by the ICC for war crimes in Darfur. He is now recreating that genocide in the Nuba Mountains.

This crisis prevents Nuba Water Project from working on water projects in the Nuba Mountains at this time. We have turned our attention to the support of the Nuba people trapped in the conflict zone and refugees fleeing across the new border to South Sudan.  Proceeds from the 2011 Walk for Sudan provided what survivors have told us are their most essential needs: water, medicine, salt, and soap.  Read more about this in the other article.