Education partners’ flood mitigation efforts to ensure school access completed an elevation of four centres including three temporary learning spaces and one early childhood development centre in Bentiu UNMISS civilian protection sites, covering 186 thousand children.
UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs or UNOCHA in its weekly update said moderate dykes were raised around the education centres to strengthen the walls and prevent entry of water to mitigate floods from entering learning centres.
The Office added that ten Parent-Teacher Association members including five women from each learning centre were trained and equipped with gumboots, spades, raincoats and buckets to prevent further flooding around the schools.
The partners provided 300 reams of papers to support printing and the administration of primary school final exams for 250 children in Juba civilian protection sites.
Recurrent delays and failures to pay teachers’ salaries remain a challenge limiting education activities as teachers do not show up for duties.
Poor roads and lack of funds to airlift some teaching materials to parts of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile States are also serious factors worsening the situation.
88 schools remain occupied: 48 by Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs and 35 by armed groups.
Education partners continue to advocate for intervention of relevant authorities to find ways to overcome the recurrent challenges.