Hope for Ariang
What challenges are facing education in Sudan?
Peace has finally come to Sudan after the brutal civil war, but the second war, the fight against illiteracy, has just begun.
Sudan has the second lowest access to primary education in the world after Afghanistan.
There are fewer than twenty active secondary schools in the South Sudan.
Universities in South Sudan were relocated to North Sudan-Khartoum during the civil war. Some universities are beginning to return to the south but need support.
Teacher education is needed. Many teachers have not completed primary school themselves. Only seven percent of teachers in Southern Sudan are trained.
Only ten percent of girls ages 7-14 attend school.
Ninety percent of schools are without buildings; classes meet under trees.
Most schools have no latrines or toilets. The majority have no safe drinking water.
Out of an estimated population of 7.5 million, only five hundred girls in Southern Sudan complete primary school each year.
H.O.P.E for Ariang is raising money to build a primary school in Ariang, a village near the town of Gogrial, Bhar El Ghazal region, South Sudan. Learn more about this project here.