UKAID Donates Textbooks To Jonglei Schools
27 April 2013 Trans shipment of containers in Juba, April 2013. [Gales Photo] By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 26 April 2013 [Gurtong] - These are the first textbooks that have been written and designed by South Sudanese educationalists for South Sudanese children under a national curriculum. “The deliveries are part of the ongoing textbook distribution in South Sudan which is funded by British Government through their Department for International Development (DFID) and initiated by the South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MoGEI),” says a release from UKAID. According to their plan, the first 359,000 books will be delivered to 137 learning institutes in Bor, Duk and Twic- East Counties while another 8 containers with books for schools in Urol County are in transit between Kampala and Juba. “Additional supplies for Nyirol, Piji, Old Fangak, Pibor, Pochalla andAkobo County are being packed in Kampala,” it adds. The primary schools and ALP centres in Jonglei State, both private and public, will receive more than 1.4 million books and other reading materials which will benefit around 467,000 pupils and mature students. The deliveries are expected to take at least 6 weeks depending on the road conditions and the security situation in the State. They indicated that national textbook distribution started in December 2012 in parts of Eastern Equatoria and is taking place in all ten States in South Sudan. So far one quarter of all schools and about one fifth of all ALP centres in South Sudan have been supplied with books. The schools will receive textbooks, teacher guides and readers in the five core subjects of Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, C.R.E. and English. “The primary pupils in Grade 1 to 4 will have access to his or her own textbooks while in Grade 5 to 8 three pupils will have to share the books. In the ALP centres every three students will share their books which cover the five core subjects,” said the release. The ratio of distribution to the schools is based on their enrolment figures as provided by the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MoGEI) in 2012. The data were revised following a series of workshops with County Education Directors from all States between October 2012 and March 2013. The County Education Offices will receive a buffer stock to supply copies of the books to new schools and cater for increased demand in existing schools. Besides Jonglei, the distribution is in progress in Warrap, Lakes and Western Bahr el Ghazal State while winding up in Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Central Equatoria. “Further deliveries for Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei, Western Equatoria, Upper Nile and Unity State are being processed in Juba and Kampala while the assessment of supply routes and location of schools in Western Equatoria State is ongoing,” it says. Posted in: Home, Education, Foreign Aid/Assistance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
