Some school boys express sadness over Girls’ Education South Sudan, a GESS cash transfer, which discriminates against them.
In a report piled by CRN reporter, the boys say they equally want support in education due to their backgrounds of poverty and parental ignorance on importance of schooling.
Girl’s Education South Sudan or GESS is an initiative of the Ministry of Education funded by the Government of the United Kingdom.
A primary 8 pupil is struggling to pay his school fees.
He says his parents denied him to go to school.
The pupil says some boys are in dangerous situation as some parents do not support them in education.
Butchery was the boy’s place for sleeping until a fellow pupil took him home, the pupil says.
The boy urges the government to take care of boys who are loitering in streets to make a good future for them and the nation.
Another boy says boys should also be supported in education.
However, another pupil who gets full support from his parents welcomes the special funding for girls to reduce early marriage.
He observes that some boys are unable to go to school due to lack of support.
Michael Lopuke Lotyam, the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Education discourages girls from plaiting hair.
He describes those who are plaiting hair as “wives of individuals”.
Mr Lopuke also discourages school girls from bleaching and using phones.
Education is supposed to be the major priority for a developing country like South Sudan.
But, the case seems different here as many boys loiter in streets and bus parks of Juba town.
Some boys have resorted to stealing.