encouraging girls education in South Sudan

Supporting girl’s education in South Sudan is a great challenge particularly for the secondary level due to many different aspects affecting girl’s enrollment and performance in schools such as, cultural practices, environment, and poverty. From my last experience of “Education we believe” campaign in 2013 for encouraging girl’s education in one of the villages in Wau city, I found it very hard for girls to finish their education because their families doesn’t value education by keeping them to do the household, therefore. There will be a need for coordinating between the schools and families to get more girls in schools for equality between boys and girls and support them to reach the secondary school. So I will need to initiate an initiative from a group of female teachers to become mentors in an action plan for the community outreach and sensitization about the cultural practices against girl’s education to create a dialogue for parents, elders, and chiefs to come together and agree about the importance of education for a great change and empower those young girls as role models and teachers through the school projects that will be implemented every year. Starting from the grassroots determine the future of development because this is whereby girls are 
marginalized and never go to school but they drop before reaching the secondary level.

The next plan is girls camp project “empowering girls through ICT” to train girls computer literacy that will prepare them for the university and support their career plan. I believe that the knowledge and experience that I got from my master studies and policy analysis will help me to make it possible.