UNICEF: "Go to School" Initiative Offers Better Life to Youth in Southern Sudan
Progress has come quickly to Southern Sudan. Two years after a historic peace agreement ended Africa's longest-running civil war, urban roads are congested with traffic and classrooms that once lacked students are now overflowing.
Outside the bustling urban areas, however, progress has been slower. The countryside is dotted with cattle camps in which communities move with their herds according to the seasons. Children who grow up in the camps are taught traditional skills like how to milk cows and fish with spears, but formal schooling has almost never been an option. The "Go to School" initiative in Southern Sudan is rebuilding the education system and aims to bring 1.6 million children to school by the end of 2007. The initiative was launched in April of last year by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, in conjunction with a wide range of partners.
But the lack of learning spaces in rural areas - coupled with cultural taboos on sending children, especially girls, to school - has been posing challenges for the campaign.
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