Sudan Returns To Mercy House

In the very early days of Mercy House, we took in 8 young Sudanese who had fled from the war between North and South Sudan. We were able to get 6 of them through a degree as teachers, and 2 as accountants. After the war they went back to their country, using their acquired skills there and we have not had any Sudanese since then – until now.

In July 2022 the police kept phoning Diana to ask if she would take in a desperate Sudanese man. She kept on refusing because there was simply no room. They were very good to him and even allowed him to sleep at the Johannesburg police station until some solution could be found. Finally, Diana gave in, as long as the man was prepared to sleep on the floor in our storeroom!

When Charles had arrived in South Africa, someone offered to take him to a place where he could stay. Little did he know or expect that this was a set up.  After being in the transport vehicle for a short while, they stopped, threw him out, removed almost all his clothing, stole everything he had brought with him including his passport and other documents and left him on the street, hardly even clad. This was at night and he did not even know where he was. Fortunately, a security vehicle passed and took him to the nearest police station where he was given very compassionate treatment, including some clothing and more. What welcome to South Africa!

By divine co-incidence, just then, one of the residents left and Charles was even able to get his own room. He has been a very great blessing to our community, being a hard worker and has many handy-man and gardening skills, which he immediately put to good use.