Solidarity with South Sudan blessed and opened officially its Teachers’ Training College in Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria.
College Principal Margaret Scott said Thursday’s ceremony marked the official opening of the Institution.Sr Margaret thanked the Catholic Diocese of Tombura Yambio for providing a strategic site for the College alongside a secondary school and inside Yambio town.
Solidarity with South Sudan Executive Director Patricia Murray said the Yambio Solidarity Teachers’ Training College is the response to the call of the Bishops’ Conference and the repeated request for education and health care for children.
Sr Patricia stated that it takes a village to build the nation and the teacher is central inside the village.
State Education Minister Pia Philip Michael thanked the Solidarity with South Sudan for tackling the most important part of education by training teachers.
He said the college, welcoming future teachers from South Sudan and Sudan, was a step forward towards unity.
Mr Pia added that if South Sudanese cannot achieve unity through politics, let them do it through education and faith.
Tombura Yambio Vicar General Anthony Bangoye Ð who blessed the college Ð praised Solidarity for bringing education rather than relief to South Sudan.
He acknowledged that the Solidarity Teachers’ Training College lessened the burden of sending children to Uganda because it trains professional teachers in the whole South Sudan.
Teachers are recruited for training from Rumbek, Tali, Gumbo, Mangalla, Rokon, Juba, Nuba Mountains, and the counties of Western Equatoria State.
Solidarity with South Sudan runs two teachers’ training colleges in Yambio and Malakal, a number of in job training four-year programs, a nursing school in Wau, an farming site in Rimenze and pastoral training programmes in various dioceses.