Announcement
Alonyo Foundation Incorporates as an Iowa Nonprofit
We've filed our Articles of Incorporation under Chapter 504 of the Iowa Code and are pursuing 501(c)(3) status.
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Rooted in resilience.
Growing together.
Alonyo Foundation partners with communities across Magwi County, South Sudan to break the cycle of poverty — turning hardship into lasting hope.
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OmeoWhere we're starting
In partnership with local leaders, schools & health centers across Omeo · Pageri · Obbo — and growing.
Who we are
A foundation rooted in community.
Alonyo Foundation is a community-led organization partnering with families across Magwi County, South Sudan — bringing clean water, education, healthcare, and economic opportunity to the villages we call home.
Today we're a community-led foundation working across education, water, health, and economic empowerment — always led by the people closest to the problem.
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What we do
Six ways we plan to build lasting change
Our charitable purpose, as filed in our Articles of Incorporation, spans six core goals — each designed with, not for, the communities we serve.
Clean Water & WASH
Expand access to safe water and strengthen sanitation and hygiene systems that reduce preventable illness.
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Provide timely food, household, hygiene, sanitary, and personal-care support to people facing poverty, displacement, disaster, or hardship.
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Support community health, nutrition, disease prevention, maternal and child health, and wellness initiatives.
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Increase access to education, learning resources, skills development, and pathways that improve long-term opportunity.
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Advance poverty reduction, livelihoods, food security, and sustainable community-development initiatives.
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Build accountable partnerships and secure donations, grants, gifts, and institutional support to expand charitable impact.
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Why this work matters
The need in South Sudan is well documented
Alonyo Foundation is a newly formed nonprofit — we don't have impact numbers of our own yet. But the scale of the need we're organizing around is real.
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of people in South Sudan lack access to safe water
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lack access to improved sanitation
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children are out of school
Sources: UNICEF South Sudan (WASH & Education). These figures describe the documented scale of need in South Sudan — not results achieved by Alonyo Foundation, which has not yet launched programs.
Why Omeo
We're starting where the need — and the connection — is real.
Omeo and the surrounding communities of Magwi County, South Sudan face exactly the challenges our charitable purpose exists to address: unreliable access to clean water, thin health infrastructure, and limited educational opportunity. It's also a community our founding board has direct ties to — which is why it's where we're choosing to start, rather than where it would simply be easiest.
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News from a foundation just getting started
Governance
Introducing Our Founding Board of Directors
Meet the four directors governing Alonyo Foundation as we build toward our first programs.
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Field Notes
Why We're Starting in Omeo, South Sudan
The community context behind our decision to focus first on Omeo and Magwi County.
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