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The Young Shepherds was founded on December 26, 1996, but only came effective in the U.S. in the year 2001 and in South Sudan in 2010 as a result of a vision revealed to the founder, Kenneth A. Read More
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Kenneth A. Masungu, a South Sudanese teacher while teaching in a Libyan high school, Mr. Masungu fell seriously ill with Pneumonia, and was admitted for 5 days under intensive care in an isolation room at El Faransh Hospital in Tripoli, Libya.
When he was in the hospital, he went into a day dream, and saw a vision that revealed to him the sufferings of the people of Southern Sudan during the two decades of civil war; and its new blooming picture of economic development after the civil war. In order to fulfill the dreams to become a reality, the Young Shepherds’ first attempt was the shipping of 185 pieces of used clothing from Cairo-Egypt to the needy people in Mundri East County, Western Equatoria State, South Sudan-Africa in the year 1997.
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