United Nations Children Agency or UNICEF and Western Equatoria government on Tuesday launched a construction of eight classrooms’ block and pit latrines in Zereda Primary and Nursery Schools in Nzara County.
UNICEF South Sudan Representative Jonathan Veitch congratulated Western Equatoria parents for sending more children to school, Anisa Radio reported.
He commended the state government for welcoming the Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs and foreigners to stay peacefully in the State.
Governor Bangasi Joseph Bakosoro urges parents to take ‘go to school campaign’ seriously by sending all children to learn.
State Education Minister Pia Philip Michael commended UNICEF and the Japanese government for fundamental support in education by providing funds for constructing Zereda Nursery and Primary School.
School representative Letecia Benito Gbafu said the school was founded in 2009 as a community-based to accommodate IDPs’ children who fled from the Lord’s Resistance Army or LRA from three Nzara County Payams.
She disclosed that there are 337 boys and 311 girls studying in Zereda with 11 teachers and one support staff.
Ms Gbafu complained about lack of office space, school facilities including clean drinking water, rampant girl-child dropout and poor salaries for teaching staff.