The Minister of General Education and Instructions urges regional and international bodies and development partners to put protection of children as top priority.
Deng Deng Hoc during African Child Day appeals to partners to increase efforts for supporting children in South Sudan, Radio Bakhita reports.
One of the children, calls on government to open more Orphanage Centres across the country to reduce the number of street children.
South Sudan on Friday joined the continent in marking the African Child Day under the theme: ‘Providing Equal Opportunities for Children in South Sudan’.
African Child Day is celebrated annually to commemorate 1978 uprising in Soweto, South Africa where school children protest against unfairness in education system.