South Sudan
Education, Empowering Women, Job Training
$30,000 Goal
Summary of the Situation
Due to Solidarity with South Sudan’s success in teacher training, the Bishop of Wau, requested that we start an in-service teachers training initiative in his diocese to upgrade the qualifications of primary school teachers in both the diocesan and non-diocesan schools majority of whom are working as untrained teachers. Teachers will engage in primary school teacher training in the evenings after school and also on Saturdays for two years at the end of which they will receive an accredited certificate in primary school education. This would be the only teacher training in the region and already 600 teachers have registered their interest in being part of the inaugural intake. The program will start in August 2024 with a group of 45 student teachers, with the hope of admitting 90 in the next cycle. 5 qualified tutors will be recruited for this ministry with one playing the double role of director and tutor
How will the funds be used?
Furniture (desk, chairs, blackboards, shelving, filing cabinet)
Tutors’ reimbursement for one year
Transport for students for one year
The Sisters’s Response
The program will be headed by a Salesian sister who’s a Solidarity missionary – Sr. Dolores – who has vast experience in education and has also served in South Sudan for many years. We hope to utilize other sisters serving in the region, with an education background as part-time tutors. An emphasis on gender parity will be highlighted from the beginning as female education is still not prioritized in the country which contributes to many other social ills.
Systemic Impact
Serve as a model for what might be possible in other dioceses. – To greatly increase the number of professionally-prepared primary school teachers in South Sudan, as a response to the well-known critical shortage of trained teachers in the country. – Prioritize and emphasis the inclusion of women among the students and tutors to counter the gender exclusion rampant in South Sudan.