Our Mission
Provide Christ-centered education to orphans from South Sudan. Village Help Foundation will aide in safe passage to attend schools from primary school to college in Uganda.
Gatjang Matai Deng
Gatjang Deng grew up as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. When he was 8 years old in 1988, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army "recruited" him, along with thousands of other young boys, and marched them to an Ethiopian Refugee Camp. By age 12 he was wielding an AK-47 and fighting alongside thousands of other child soldiers. In 2000, Gatjang was given a new life in America as part of a United Nations refugee resettlement program. What Deng has accomplished since then is nothing short of phenomenal. Deng wasted no time pursuing education, and since 2008, has worked at Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, as a patient care technician. Gatjang launched the Village Help Foundation in 2014 to provide an education for South Sudanese orphans, rescuing them from a life of deprivation, violence and war, and giving them the tools to lead the next generation of South Sudan.