South Sudan YCS - Prioritising Girls Education

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Update
12/4/2023

South Sudan YCS prioritising Girls education organized discussion attended by YCSers and sectional leaders from difference schools in Juba.
The program was attended by Secretary General for South Sudan National Students Union Mr. Julius Oguma Oberie
On discussion the students deliberated on the roles of parents Girls education and major challenges that are facing girls education in South Sudan.
The students applied the YCS leaders to extend the such program to the grassroots level where major challenges happened daily.
The also wanted awareness to be done to parents to know the benefits of education on girls, so that parents should encourage their girls not to leave education and supervised based need of their children on education.
While standing with notes on their hands dedicated and applied to the government and parents to allow girls to go back to school, and to avoid early child marriage.
On behalf of South Sudan National Students Union, Mr. Julius encourage the YCSers to continue with initiative and assured the cooperation of union with students through to ended force and early child marriage in South Sudan.
He advised girls to focus on education and be good example to their sisters.
On other hands the coordinator of YCS Mr. Pasquale Henry Kamilo advise the members to continue and participate towards the end of program, he appreciated the IYCS PanAfrica coordination office for facilitating the ongoing initiative and support on its process.

Thanks

James Agany Kongor Mangong
Secretary for the project.

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Excellente semaine à tous !

Happy Lenten season to all!

Support girl child education.
Parents, stop force marriage.
Early marriage is our challenge, adolescent is the wose. How can we avoid it?
Let us be faithful to our parents.
If you are caring heavy loads marriage is not the solution.
Don't be shy in learning, education has no age, come back to school!!! Tomorrow you will be someone in the nearest future.

Mrs. Marssa Johnny
YCS deputy coordinator in Catholic archdiocese of Juba, South Sudan.

Update
South Sudan YCS- prioritizing Girls education during Covid19 and beyond technical committee today organized group discussion on 30/9/2022 at St. Joseph old church.
Topic was " what are challenges facing girls education in South Sudan".
Facilitator was James Agany Kongor Mangong the secretary of the said project.
The following YCSers who participated are from Juba Day secondary School, Nile Model secondary School, Sadaka secondary School, Supiri secondary School, Juba Commerical secondary School and Juba Girls secondary School.
1. Wilma Juan. Female
2. Rejoice Kiden. Female
3. Susan Atario. Female
4. Josephine Awan. Female
5. Slivia Dominic. Female
6. Victoria Poni. Female
7. Julia Alex. Female
8. Slivia Poni. Female
9. Denis Charles. Male
10. Gabriel Luka. Male
11. Matthew Onen. Male
12. Susan Sada. Female
13. Maunir John. Male
Discussion resolutions:-
- Poverty has remained challenge that encourage child Marriage.
- Lacking of parental care has led to many dropped out of school.
- Family (parents) believe that source of dwory that they only preparing them for marriage then education.
- Sexual abuse has also contributed drop out of school, specially South Sudan has number of rapping on young Girls.
- Force marriage.
- Financial problem that some can't able to pay their school school.
- Modernization also challenge since their lacking of good clothes to put on, shoes, involved in ideas of weekend at Hotels by young girls encourage others to leave school and joined the new lifestyle.
- Lack health materials used for girls special when adolescent ages also be challenging.
- Peer group also create space of ideas on girls to Leave school and associate on life of peers group.
- kiting of students by some teachers in bad ways also led to drop out of many girls from school.