Voice of Peace Radio (December 09 2024) The Nuba are encouraged to embrace education seriously to avoid falling behind again.
Mama Mariam Alamin, told parents at St. Daniel Comboni kindergarten fifth graduation that they should allow their children to study. She declared that the Nuba should not be slaves to themselves anymore.
Mama Mariam said for a long time there were no schools in Nuba Mountains but now that the opportunity to study has opened let’s not wait any longer.
Parents’ representative Numeiri Hamad, said that the idea to introduce kindergarten schools paves way to quality education and reduces early marriages.
The coordinator of education in the Nuba Mountains pastoral region, Fr. James William noted that education is a special initiative in the whole of Sudan.
Fr. James noted that many wars experienced in the country are due to lack of education.
He said that if people dedicate themselves to educate our children, it will answer their hope for development, peace and prosperity.
Kumbur payam, (local authority) police director Musa Teka, said that since parents were able enough to bear children, they should be responsible of them.
Mr Teka mentioned that the kindergarten was the best place to form kids but the cases of juvenile crimes were issues of major concern.
He revealed that a department for juvenile crimes will be opened next year and parents found abusing kids will be hit hard by the law.
The impoverished Nuba Mountains region has remained in conflict
throughout the Sudanese civil war and after the separation of Sudan into two states in 2011 when the north (Khartoum) launched conflict in a failed state gubernatorial elections in the region.
In April 2023 a civil war broke out in the country, worsening the situation in the Nuba Mountains region, one of the poorest areas in Sudan.