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BRAC schools in Sudan for 175 poor children

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BRAC schools in Sudan for 175 poor children

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Summary

This project builds 5 schools in Southern Sudan, providing 175 of the poorest children (mostly girls) with an accelerated quality primary education. read updates from the field

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$15 - Will provide one student with textbooks
$25 - Will provide one student with school supplies
$60 - Will provide one teacher with a year’s worth of monthly training
$100 - Will provide one student’s schooling for a year

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

After the genocide in Darfur, there is fragile peace between the North and South in Sudan and much unresolved conflict. Children in this country urgently need our help. BRAC’s schools address the challenges in Southern Sudan by targeting poor children, street children, nomads, child soldiers, and a majority of girls. BRAC offers an accelerated learning program for children who have never enrolled into primary school or who have dropped out by teaching 5 years of primary school in just 4 years.

Activities

1) 5 schools built within 1km of students’ houses 2) Female local teachers recruited & trained 3) 70% of students will be girls 4) Teaching methods include culture, music, dance and games 5) Meetings with parents held to ensure their support

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $4,382
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $61,368
Total Funding Goal: $65,751

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Building capacity among these 175 students will enable them to improve their well-being, grow their incomes, and provide for their families. This project is essential in stabilizing Southern Sudan and preventing the spread of Darfur-like genocide.

Project Message

“The only way we can save Sudan is to educate its children. Give a girl or boy the opportunity to learn and earn a future.”
- Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Michelle Chaplin

11 East 44th St.
Suite 1600
New York, NY 10017
United States
(212) 808-5615
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Project Sponsor

BRAC USA

Organization

BRAC USA
11 East 44th St. Suite 1600
New York, NY 10017
United States
(212) 808-5615
http://www.brac.net/usa

Learn more about BRAC USA and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Sudan and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Sudan, read the Human Development Report on Sudan or the Wikipedia entry for Sudan.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 3, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 10, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

School's in session in Southern Sudan!

By Michelle Chaplin - Program Manager, February 03, 2010 01:05 PM

Classes are going well in the 5 Southern Sudan schools. The teachers were given basic training for 15 days with a 3-day orientation before classes began. Refresher trainings have been conducted about 2 days per month, allowing teachers the opportunity to continually brush up on upcoming lessons and curricula.

For the 175 children that attend these schools, this has been quite a departure from their old lives in which there had been no schools, no teachers, and most had probably never even seen a school building!

Looking forward, we will be striving to keep the schools running, raising support for continued refresher trainings, teaching aids and manuals, and schoolbooks and supplies for upcoming semesters.

Thank you to all who have contributed and have been following our progress! Hopefully we can meet any upcoming challenges together, to help provide these kids with the educations they’ll need to become productive and stable members of their communities.

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