The next generation

They're not the future. They're the present.

Forty-two percent of this country is under twenty-five. The median age is eighteen. The people who will run its systems are alive right now, a very small number, limited by resources and opportunities is trying to build but progress is hard and slow.

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The Builders' Circle

We're forming a first group of young South Sudanese, at home and in the diaspora, who want to build, not just learn. Working engineers and designers alongside them. Real projects for real communities. Honest about the constraints. It is not open for applications yet. This is how you tell us you want in.

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The Builders' Circle

We're forming a first group of young South Sudanese, at home and in the diaspora, who want to build, not just learn. Real tools for real communities, alongside working engineers and designers. It isn't open for applications yet. Tell us you want in, and you'll be among the first we contact.

Why this matters

An idle generation is a recruited generation. Armed groups know that better than anyone. The reverse is also true. Give a young person something real to build and people who will back them, and the same energy goes somewhere else entirely.

We are not training someone's junior hires. We are forming the people who will author the systems their country runs on. We think that might be the most useful thing we ever do.