We were paying the salaries of nearly 100 basic
and kindergarten teachers in 32 schools teaching over 2,000 children.
The project now includes training of basic school and kindergarten
teachers with DfID and Manos Unidas funding.
Together for Sudan is
working with basic self help schools and community associations which
have banded together to educate children in areas where schools are
generally unavailable (the Nuba Mountains, in particular) or
unaffordable to the displaced (the Khartoum IDP settlements). We hope
that in due course the Sudanese government will subsume these
responsibilities.
Meanwhile, with help from our supporters and partners
Together for Sudan will have provided a beginning, even saved the
future, for thousands of children. Many of the southerners we are
training as teachers will likely return to their homelands, carrying
with them a skill which will contribute to peace and stability in Sudan.
A recent grant from DfID underwrote expansion of Together for Sudan
literacy classes in the Kadugli area, including supporting student
teachers. A similar programme for training basic school teachers and for
expanding elementary education in Nuba Mountain villages is part of the
same grant, but will not be extended beyond 2007. We are urgently
seeking new funding because the project is now suspended in both
Khartoum and the Nuba Mountains due to lack of funds.
A
teacher in the Nuba Mountains