Lakes state celebrate Girls education Day
By Manyang Mayom
September 24, 2010 (RUMBEK) – Lakes State citizens on Thursday celebrated National Girls’ Education Day, more than two months after its official date. The event took place at Rumbek’s Freedom Square and was organized by Lakes State Ministry of Education, The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Save the Children.
Despite many efforts from different stakeholders, the education sector still faces many challenges, among them: the lack of qualified teachers; inadequate learning spaces; insufficient budget for teacher salaries; lack of female teachers; bad cultural practices; poverty; insecurity; domestic workloads; the great distances some of the students have to travel, from home to school; and gender discrimination in the classroom.
Ayual said that the “righteous goal” of educating Southern Sudanese girls can be achieved by doing away with negative cultural practices like early marriages, fighting poverty and discrimination against girls, creating positive role-models in schools, influencing the formulation and adaptation of education policies of girls education, and creating and sustaining partnership with government, donors, universities, NGOs, communities and other partners in education.
Thousands of primary students in Rumbek attended the event, together with some women groups and the Police Force brass band.
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Wal P Muoranyar Biet
Lakes state celebrate Girls education Day
Yes, Mr. Makoi,some parts of our culture that subjugate certain members of our community to unedquality of any kind must be discarded.
Out of ten individual in Southern Sudan, six are women. Females make 60% of our population. Not educating larger part of our community will delay Southern Sudan. I’m very glad that it has been seen in Lakes.
Girls were note create for wealth making, but for continuation of human race.
Cows are animals, girls are humans. There is nothing that worth human life than another human being. No human life worths trillion cows. Not at all. Cows do not make doctors but girls do. Cows don’t build bridges, but girls do. Cows don’t fight, but girls do.
We need to stop all this girls for cows staffs and embrace girls for educations and their lands.
Wal Peter Muoranyar