

On November 10th, new leaders emerged from the Clarkston, GA community to form a chapter of the United Sudanese and South Sudanese Communities Association Henry Lejukole, Chairman of the USASSCA Steering Committee welcomes the Atlanta Chapter here in his welcome letter from Des Moines, Iowa

UNITED SUDANESE & SOUTH SUDANESE COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION (USASSCA)
Calling on all Sudanese communities from Sudan and South Sudan, the genocide prevention activist community and Georgians who are concerned about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, South Kordofan and Darfur.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
12:00PM
Sudan Christian Missionary Church
Pastor Gorashi Gangi
3895 Church Street
Clarkston, GA 30021
You are invited to participate in the creation of the USASSCA in Georgia.
USASSCA is an umbrella organization whose mission it is to bring together Sudanese with South Sudanese Communities in the United States Diaspora and facilitate cooperation and well being between them. The first conference was held in Des Moines, Iowa in August, where two members of the Georgia community attended. They would like to share with you what they learned and introduce you to Rabbi David Kaufman who hosted the Des Moines conference and is also the founder of HelpNuba.org He will be the featured speaker for this inaugural partnership event with Pastor Gorashi Gangi. Please share this invitation with anyone you think would be interested.
We would like to have representatives from the following eight regions:
Beja, Blue Nile, North and Central Sudan, Darfur, The Nuba Mountains of Sudan, Bahr El-Ghazal, Equatoria, and Upper Nile in South Sudan.
While USASSCA is not affiliated with any of the political or military groups, the American branches of the following have officially endorsed its formation:
- The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-SPLM
- The Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement North-SPLM-N
- The Sudan Liberation Movement-SLM
- The Justice and Equality Movement-JEM
- The Beja Congress
Leaders from these Diaspora communities have also endorsed the formation of USASSCA:
- The Blue Nile Community Association of the USA
- The Association of the Sons of Masselit (Darfur)
- Beja, Darfur, and Nuba Mountain regions of Sudan
- Bar El-Ghazal, Equatoria and Upper Nile regions of South Sudan