Padoc Area Scholars Society (PASS)

PASS supports South Sudanese youth, especially young women, to rise above extreme poverty through education, access, and opportunity. The greatest ongoing tragedy in South Sudan is the waste of human potential; tens of thousands of intelligent, hard working, ambitious youth graduate high school each year and do not continue with their education due to lack of financial ability to pay for college. Scholarship opportunities in South Sudan are virtually non-existent with the exception of our program. Without a viable way of earning a living and lacking a bigger picture perspective that comes from a college education, many youth are recruited into armed gangs who steal cows, abduct children, and engage in retaliatory inter-tribal violence. Our mission is to give hard working, ambitious, and talented youth the opportunity to better their lives and the lives of their communities in South Sudan through the opportunity to earn a college degree.