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YOUTH FOR EDUCATION IN SUDAN (YES)
SUMMARY
Youth and Child Empowerment in Sudan is a project of Youth for Education in Sudan. The project focuses on children’s education, children’s rights awareness creation, medical support and care, HIV/AIDS awareness creation, rehabilitation, training, fostering, mentoring, counseling and guidance.
Y.E.S is a non governmental organization working with the grassroots communities in Northern Bahr El Ghazal State, Southern Sudan. The organization was initiated by Southern Sudanese youth from the region who felt that it was desirable to form a youth based organization to address the challenges facing children and the youth in the region. The organization wants to achieve these through resource mobilization, fundraising, community mobilization and sensitization, advocacy and capacity building.
The mission of Y.E.S is to build a permanent community with resources which respect the rights of children and where children and youth take responsibility to build their community.
The organization has a team of fourteen (14) members of staff (6 --volunteers) and 8 are professional staffs with skills, ability, experience and competence to implement our programmes.
Y.E.S requires substantial input in terms of human and capital resources to successfully implement her programmes.
INTRODUCTION
Youth for Education in Sudan was formed on 4th April 2010 by a group of Southern Sudanese youth studying in Kenya. Since it’s inception the organization has been involved in community mobilization and sensitization on matters of children and HIV/AIDS among the Southern Sudanese communities living in Nairobi, Nakuru, Kakuma refugee camp, Eldoret, Athi River and Dadab refugee camp all in Kenya and Aweil west in Northern Bahr El Ghazal State, Southern Sudan.
Youth and Children empowerment project seeks to provide education needs and rights to the Southern Sudanese youth and children.
JUSTIFICATION
80% of Southern Sudanese are illiterate with women being 90% illiterate. This is exacerbated by lack of government action to construct schools in the region. The problem is compounded further by extreme poverty at the grassroots levels which has disabled the local population from taking any meaningful action towards their development.
Many Southern Sudanese are living in mad walled and grass thatched houses. Those living in Kenya are either being supported by their cousins who are selling their animals back home to pay for their house rents or are being assisted United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), who have settled them in camps within Kenya. The Southern Sudanese who are living in Kenya struggle to provide education, food, clothing, medical support, transport and legal support to those under their care.
Many Southern Sudanese do not know the future of the nation as it prepares for the Referendum on the 9th January 2011 to determine it’s future.
The government of Southern Sudan is preoccupied with political matters that affects Southern Sudan hence the missing gaps of youth and child’s education.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
The effect of the long decades of civil war in Sudan largely affected Southern Sudan with many social and economic infrastructures destroyed including schools, hospital, roads, farms, homes and trading centers. The cost of destruction was in thousands of dollars. It also led to the death of 2.4 million people. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, some fled into foreign countries where they are living as refugees. This hindered the development of the region. Communication between villages and town were disrupted. Children and youth were forced out of school and recruited into the guerilla movement to fight alongside the liberation movements such as the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).
GOAL
Y.E.S projects goal is to advocate for the right of the youth and children in Southern Sudan
OBJECTIVE
• To sensitize the Southern Sudanese communities on the rights of the youth and children in two years
• To construct one (1) youth vocational training center for 200 youth in Aweil West County, Bahr El Ghazal State in Southern Sudan in one year.
• To sponsor 100 Southern Sudanese children who are in various schools in Kenya to continue with their primary school education for two years.
• To construct a primary school for 800 children in Aweil West in Northern Bahr El Ghazal State, Southern Sudan in one year.
• To construct a rehabilitation center for 100 children of 2000 children in Aweil West County in Northern Bahr El Ghazal State, Southern Sudan in one year.
STRATEGY OF IMPLEMENTATION
Sensitize and mobilize the local community for three days. Hold an inception meeting involving all the stakeholders and explain the projects objectives, methods of implementation, monitoring and evaluation plans. There is need to procure materials for construction. There is also need to recruit qualified and competent constructors to the project. At least chief constructor must be a person with 10 years working experience with different organization. He must prove his experience by producing his C.V. Involve the local community in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Financial report will be submitted to the funding organization as will be agreed. Mid term and end of the project report need to be shared with all the stakeholders and the final report need to be submitted to the funding organization.
CONCLUSION
Youth for Education in Sudan is appealing to well-wishers, the friends of Southern Sudan, charities, international NGOs, Governments, Churches and individuals willing to partners with us for the reconstruction of the lives of these youth and children in Southern Sudan to kindly contact us using the address below:
Mr. Gabriel Ken Malek
Executive Director
Youth for Education in Sudan
Email: sudanyouth69@yahoo.com
Cell phone: +254-723-14-31-26
NOTE: We will be very glad to respond to your inquiries as well.