Project: Schools in Sudan
Of the more than 33 Million inhabitants in the Sudan about 45% are children and adolescents under 14 years of age. As a comparison: in the Federal Republic of Germany about 15% are children and adolescents.
Around 500,000 girls of the appropriate age do not attend the elementary schools at all. 32% of the men and around 57% of the women are illiterate. In the capital-city of Khartoum alone there are 74% with either no - or solely rudimentary - school education.
The target of the “David Carlyle Association e. V.” is to support the provision of as many schools as possible.
The school-house in the community of Ayod (Western Upper Nile Region in South-Sudan) is completed, and the furnishings there-of should be augmented within the coming year.
Despite the lack of chairs and desks lessons are already being held. Many more schools are envisaged, in addition teaching materials and on-going-education-courses for the teachers must be effected.
Only in this way can the stagnation in the educational system in Sudan be remedied efficiently, only in this way can the attainment of a "school-leaving-certificate" by children and adolescents be attained.