A temporary makeshift school has been opened for internally displaced persons at the UN IDP transit camp in Thomping.
The opening of the school is seen as a major milestone in efforts to provide quality education to about 900 children and adolescents from the IDP communities and ensure equal opportunities for both girls and boys.
William Nyah, the Acting Head teacher of Friendship Nursery and Primary school asked UNICEF to intervene and supply basic school supplies for the children displaced by the recent fighting in Juba.
“We have now good number of pupils; we are asking UNICEF and other education partners to provide us with some learning materials and also to construct school separate from IDP. It is very important to teach these children because we are investing the future”.
According to UNICEF, with a population of 11 million, South Sudan has a higher proportion of children out of school than any other place in the world.
More than half of the country’s primary and lower secondary school-age children, up to age 15, are not attending school.