Allow me to present these few words before you all in this great eve “US Ambassador’s first biannual reception for the State Alumni South Sudanese members”. Today it is actually very great and brighter moments as we have gathered in the US Embassy Compound. Let it be a historic event for all of us, may it be the day of our historic “shift-turning point” which reminds all of us about our various visiting reasons to US, as then each and every one of us have respectively traveled and visited a longer distance of miles to and within the United States of America’s cities, towns, country sides, centers and many institutions for the purpose of sharing and exchanging advancement-advantages’ impact in fields of our professionals dimension, being scientific, social, cultural, educational, informational and artistically. In brief the members of State Alumni S. Sudan have already and collectively “discovered United States of America!”

 Fellow Alumni, you as an Alumni member, you have a dream, a goal and you have a mission which all are to be attained and such dream and goal need our hearts, our heads, our hands, our hopes be healthy and united, then in such a way we can determine our collective successes in achieving these objectives and goal of our State Alumni-South Sudanese, here in this new nation “the Republic of South Sudan”. As Alumni members in this country, “what we can express in such moment, are our simplicity, our wiliness and our spirit of service in practical sense. Fellow Alumni, But yet what is your responsibility, your role and your duties at State Alumni in South Sudan?  we have missions to be attained according to our different professional norms that is because, we have seen some lights of progress of the richest and the most advanced nation in the world (United States of America) and this is in the sense of humanity, freedom, citizen-openness, system of democratic rule, scientific and technologies development as reflected in the US’ infrastructural setups. Members of respective professional fields at State Alumni South – Sudan, I would like to assure and urge you today that: “your membership do matters effectively at State Alumni – South Sudan’s activities due to our common good in both urban and rural dimensions, I urge you again just stand firm and prove your effectiveness for we have a long way to go while facing paths of transformation”.  

This day: Sep, 28, 2012 of our first reception is “our brighter timing”, in which we shall sharpen our thinking as united and prepared South Sudanese State Alumni members, as well we can start facing the challenges of darker side of our nation and do our lighting step toward horizon of development and advancements of our new nation. May we all be filled with elements of truth, justice, reconciliation, liberty, freedom, just-peace, progress and love.

Your Excellency, thank you very much for bringing us here in this super reception, I wish and hope more receptions plus activities will follow and be launched by the State Alumni members. Finally, may God bless you all at the US Embassy, bless United States of America, bless all Alumni members and bless the people of South Sudan.   

 By: Mr. John Jada Faustino,    

Multicultural and International Visitor Leadership Program IVLP USA 2010.   

  Member at State Alumni -  Juba, Central Equatoria State - South Sudan.