The Teacher Training and Support Project
Together for Sudan currently pays 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.
