As 2025 comes to an end, we’re thinking less about resolutions – and more about what real change actually looks like.
In Nimule, South Sudan, it looks like this:
- a girl who once missed school every month now fully present and participating in class;
- young woman, newly graduated, choosing to give back by becoming a mentor to others
- a young mother returning to school—supported, determined, and hopeful.
This doesn’t happen by chance. It happens when people decide to show up.
It means girls have a safe place to go after school – and a community that comes together to support them.
It means mentors who listen, guide, and stay.
It means scholarships that allow adolescent girls to postpone marriage and finish high school – girls who would not have had the chance to stay in school otherwise.
It means mama kits and maternal care so young mothers can deliver safely and continue their education.
And it means clean water—basic, essential, and foundational to everything else.
This year, DROP is supporting over 500 adolescent girls to attend high school – something many of them never imagined as part of their future. We are also supporting more than 1,500 primary students through after-school programs that strengthen learning and help keep girls in school during the years they are most at risk of dropping out.
South Sudan remains one of the hardest places in the world to be a girl. Education is fragile. Health systems are extremely strained, and much of the aid that once supported basic maternal care is gone. Young mothers are often left to navigate pregnancy and childbirth with little support – and few opportunities to continue their education.
And yet – this is exactly where progress is happening.
Through education, women’s health support, mentorship, and clean water, we are standing with women and girls in a country facing enormous challenges—helping them stay in school, deliver safely, and imagine a future that looks different from the past.
If you believe the new year should bring more of these moments for girls in South Sudan, please consider making a year-end gift today. Your support helps a student begin the year with strength, dignity, and the confidence that someone is in her corner.
