The Burlington Free Press reports that 100 attendees and "about two dozen of Vermont's Sudanese refugees gathered in St. James Episcopal Church on Friday night for the church's fourth annual Africa Night," a fundraiser to benefit the the New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI). NESEI is a group organized by refugees that builds schools in Southern Sudan. "Last year, NESEI won a $250,000 grant from the World Bank Development Marketplace Competition, and used the money to construct its first school, The New Sudan School of Health Sciences, in Yei, Southern Sudan." The school is scheduled to open next month. NESEI also "plans to build 20 schools in the region by 2015."

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