Parents are facing challenges of payment of school fees for their children in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State.
Julius Taban, a resident of Jigomoni One Residential Area complains that there is no job to do in order to get money for paying the teachers, Radio Easter reported.
He also appeals to teachers to understand the situation of parents as they keep struggling for the school fees.
“We as parents the challenges facing us is the payment of the school fees because there is no job that we can do to pay our children at school, everything is in God’s Hands when God gives us we shall make it, we also call for the teachers to have patience and understand our situation as parents and to the parents who got nothing in hand they should remain calm like me till they get money for paying their children”, he regrets.
The deputy head teacher of Jigomoni Primary School Waran Emmanuel says some parents are poor, making it difficult for their children to study.
“Some parents are in poverty and low level of income and others are not working and others continue tilling the land until when harvest comes this is the time when they have money due to the insecurity there is also shortage of food hindering parents we expect salaries to be paid in time and allocations according to the grading should be increased”, he notes.
A pupil of Jigomoni Primary School Lidia Amani, points out that they face challenges at school because some parents are not taking proper care of their children.
“The challenges facing us as students in school is some parents they don’t care about their children the children are suffering because if they ask something they don’t for example my parents separated and I am now living with the grandmother so my father is the one paying all of us in school, but sometimes if they have some challenges at home it becomes difficult for them to pay us in school”, she says.
The speakers were giving their remarks in Yei River County, Central Equatoria State.