The ministry of Education of Western Bahr el Ghazal State together with its partner Hope Agency For Relief and Development (HARD) organisation launched payment of Girls’ Education South Sudan (GESS) money to schools girls that qualify for the process in Jur River County.
The team leader of GESS project in HARD Organization Andrea Amet Ubieu explained that the aim of paying money to school girls is to help them boost their capacity in education and improve their enrollment in schools and be able to care for scholastic materials.
Ubieu added that, candidate pupils and other students will receive 32,000 SSP and the rest of the classes which are grantees to receive case transfers will take 25,600 SSP.
“We pay Cash transfer to girls in order to help support the parents and the girls so that the girls can continue learning in schools,” he stated.
One of the beneficiaries from Alek-chok Complex Secondary School Achan Angui expressed her gratitude to HARD organization for helping school girls by paying them money to boost to keep them enrolling in schools.
Achan Angui confirmed that she received 25,000 SSP and it will help her to buy some school materials for next academic year.
She said, “I am going to use this money and buy myself some of the scholastic materials like books and calculator, and I advised my colleagues to use the money they received to buy some of those school materials they were not having.”
The State Director of general education Juma Suleiman encouraged learners to use this money wisely and only for scholastic materials.
Juma Suleiman urged learners to take education seriously in their lives for the betterment of the country.