Education
Children in South Sudan
Stop education, lose a generation
South Sudan officially declared its independence on Saturday 9th July 2011 at its capital, displaying a chance to settle the circumstance between wars within the country that are affecting the children. This violates human rights because survivors wrestle with their lives looking for basic needs of food, water, shelter and clothing and maybe even getting an education.
- More than 90% of the population is living on less than $1 per day.
- South Sudan has the lowest rate worldwide for secondary school attendance.
- 75% of the population does not have access to basic healthcare.
- Children during the war were recruited for fighting making education merely possible.
Child Soldiers
Tens of thousands of children were recruited from South Sudan during the war.
Health Care
World Relief provides health care and nutrition support for hunger-related illnesses via Public Healthcare Clinics (PHCC’s).
Identity
Vast awareness campaigns are to be launched to encourage the registration of births.
Resolutions
Things Done For Improvement
World Relief
- Teachers are trained to be better equipped in classrooms of 50 or more students, which is common due to the shortage of educated teachers.
- Works in conjunction with the county’s Health Department to provide in-service and refresher training for health care providers and community-based health workers.
- Training farmers on better agricultural practices through workshops and demonstration gardens.
- Stopping violations of children's rights throughout the world.
- Makes donations.
- Advocates for Children's Rights
- Set up new camps for refugees to move in.
- Shares stories of the people they work with.
- Investigate and expose the facts, whenever and wherever abuses happen.
Amnesty International
BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE THAN CURSE THE DARKNESS
Email: contactus@amnesty.org
Website: www.amnesty.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amnestyglobal
Annotated Bibliography
- Neve, Alex. "‘Stop Education, Lose a Generation’ – Tough Lessons for Refugees Fleeing Sudan’s Overlooked Crisis." Amnesty International. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, 7 May 2015. Web. 15 June 2015.<https://www.amnesty.org/articles/blogs/2015/05/stop-education-lose-a-generation-tough-lessons-for-refugees-fleeing-sudans-overlooked-crisis/ >. This source is about the people of South Sudan and their lives after years of war with each other.
- Daget, Morgane, and Marc Lacrotte. "Children of South Sudan."Humanium for Childrens Rights. Humanium, 12 July 2012. Web. 15 June 2015. <http://www.humanium.org/en/south-sudan/>. This source is about how war within South Sudan had affected children's life. Much of them live in poverty and had their rights violated. The right to Education and the Right to health had been severely problematic.
- "South Sudan A Look Back." South Sudan A Look Back. World Relief, n.d. Web. 15 June 2015. <http://worldrelief.org/recent-stories/south-sudan-one-year-as-a-nation>. This source was about the challenges South Sudan had while growing to be new nation. There were many difficulty but with the help of organizations like World Relief things were better and improved.