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Last October, the university created a sports field to create an environment for the locals and students to play.
However, there were difficulties due to lack of supplies and goal posts.
The John Garang University requested for support from Korean military engineering unit and after surveying the site, officials of the contingent decided to support.
The goal posts were made from Korean military engineering construction team in Bor.
Also, Korean army donated five items such as soccer balls, uniforms, and whistles purchased from Korea.
“As humanitarian support to John Garang University, the Republic of Korea’s Horizontal Military Engineering Company (ROK HMEC) donates the following; 10 soccer balls,20 soccer uniforms, 2 goalkeeper uniforms, 2 whistles, 1 air pump and 2 goal posts,” the officer said.
The event was supervised by South Korea’s Horizontal Military Engineering Company, CIMIC Chief Maj. Lim Moo Song, John Garang University Vice Chancellor Prof. Aggrey Ayuen Majok, some 100 university students and officials.
Additionally, the South Korean military unit is currently supporting students in difficult conditions at Bor orphanage, Lualdit School and other schools.
Korean contingency is currently doing humanitarian efforts at these locations such as cementing the classroom floors, setting up blackboards, donating desks, chalkboards, erasers, and other school supplies.
They said that their contribution will improve the educational environment of John Garang University and strengthen the bond between and John Garang University and republic of Korea military engineering unit.
The university, then called Dr. John Garang Institute of Science and Technology – branch of International University of Moldova (ULIM), opened on January 28, 2008 as a promising institution for South Sudan.
Former Governor of Jonglei State, Philip Thon Leek, is considered as the founding father of the university when he rejected taking sponsored 40 students to Moldova and pushed for a home-based university.
According to a former student of the school Philip Thon Aleu, the institute opened two months after Governor Philip Thon Leek was replaced by Governor Kuol Manyang Juuk.
Governor Philip Thon’s argument was tremendous because 80 more students enrolled at the university when it started making a total of 120.
It was just three years since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and many of
the students had returned from different countries with varying education system.
An access course was necessary to close the gaps between students who completed high school in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan.
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