The Teacher Training and Support Project
We were paying the salaries of nearly 100 basic and kindergarten teachers in 32 schools teaching over 2,000 children. The project now includes training of basic school and kindergarten teachers with DfID and Manos Unidas funding.
Together for Sudan is working with basic self help schools and community associations which have banded together to educate children in areas where schools are generally unavailable (the Nuba Mountains, in particular) or unaffordable to the displaced (the Khartoum IDP settlements). We hope that in due course the Sudanese government will subsume these responsibilities.
Meanwhile, with help from our supporters and partners Together for Sudan will have provided a beginning, even saved the future, for thousands of children. Many of the southerners we are training as teachers will likely return to their homelands, carrying with them a skill which will contribute to peace and stability in Sudan.
A recent grant from DfID underwrote expansion of Together for Sudan literacy classes in the Kadugli area, including supporting student teachers. A similar programme for training basic school teachers and for expanding elementary education in Nuba Mountain villages is part of the same grant, but will not be extended beyond 2007. We are urgently seeking new funding because the project is now suspended in both Khartoum and the Nuba Mountains due to lack of funds.
Training Trainers report - May 2010 - Click here
The Body Shop supports teacher training - Click here
Thanks from education professionals in the Nuba Mountains - click here
