SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY
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Jody Wilcox of Chesterfield volunteers in Hope for Humanity’s 6th annual fundraising walk to support a secondary school the organization built in Southern Sudan. The afternoon event was held on Sunday, May 3.
FOR A VILLAGE BY ELIZABETH FARINA efarina@midlothianexchange.com
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ne could clearly hear the joyous call of song and the beating of drums from area Sudanese as the large group of walkers circled the track at the high school in spite of the threatening afternoon rain on Sunday, May 3. For Jody Wilcox of Chesterfield, the local Hope for Humanity event at Deep Run High School was a tangible way to continue contributing to Atiaba village’s secondary school where he helped build teacher housing last spring and learned how to make bricks. Jody’s wife Angie unfortunately
PHOTO BY ELIZABETH FARINA
would miss out on the sixth annual event because she was thousands of miles away at the same African school. She is currently a volunteer teacher at the Hope and Resurrection Secondary School in the village. The Wilcox couple had heard Darryl and Jennifer Ernst, founders of the Richmondbased charity organization, at St. James Episcopal Church speak about the many needs the African country is facing after a 20-year civil war. Both decided Southern Sudan was a place they could help make a difference in the future of the tentatively peaceful nation, which the U.S. helped establish. “When you
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