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Reviving. Education ,. Education ,. Reviving. Rebuilding. Rebuilding. Sudan!. Sudan!. Presentation’s outline. Who are we at VIS Our local partner: the Don Bosco Society of Sudan Education: our key strategy Sudan Programme Conclusion. VIS.

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Reviving

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  1. Reviving Education, Education, Reviving Rebuilding Rebuilding Sudan! Sudan!

  2. Presentation’s outline • Who are we at VIS • Our local partner:the Don Bosco Societyof Sudan • Education: our key strategy • Sudan Programme • Conclusion

  3. VIS International Volunteer Service for Development • Carrying out interventions in the developing South since 1986 • Working with local partners in developing countries to promote human development projects for underprivileged people, especially the young

  4. Wearecommitted to implement projects featuring an integrated development approach to: • Vocational training, social development and work opportunities for neglected young people • Education and support of young people at risk • Rescue and rehabilitation of street-children and child-soldiers • Encouraging local self-entrepreneurialactivities

  5. Spain Italy Germany Belgium Austria The Don Bosco Network (DBN) Association of 7 European NGOs working for the human and social development of poor, marginalized children and adolescents of the world The DBN members:

  6. The Don Bosco Society in Sudan • Part of a worldwide network of educational institutions present in 128 countries • In Sudan for the past 25 years • Specialized in education for the youth, with focused attention to the poorest and marginalized

  7. Khartoum El Obeyd Al Fasher Nyala Tonj Wau Juba Geographical Focus KHARTOUM ZONE DARFUR ZONE SOUTH SUDAN ZONE

  8. 1. Saint Joseph’s VTCKHARTOUM • 650 students: mostly from the refugee camps around the capital & from a juvenile prison in the area • 60 staff • 8 different trades (masonry, auto-mechanics, carpentry, general mechanics, electricity, printing, welding, plumbing) • The VTC was established in the 1940s and was taken over by the Don Bosco Society in 1985

  9. Electronics Carpentry Auto-Mechanics Printing Press

  10. 2. Saint Joseph Social Works KALAKALA GUBBA • Main site & 9 outstations located in a radius of 40 km • 5 primary schools with a total of 2000 students • Various social and development activities reaching yearly to 30.000 people (youth programs, trauma counseling, medical labs and dispensaries, women promotion programs)

  11. Women promotion Primary education Adult learning Health Services

  12. 3. Don Bosco VTC EL OBEYD • 500 local students (3-year course) • 400 youth IDP from Darfur (room & board provided) – 10 months intensive training • 50 studentsfrom the Nuba Mountains • 40 staff • 7 different trades(auto-mechanics, general mechanics, carpentry, welding, masonry, electricity, plumbing)

  13. Squeezed, but happy! State-of-art workshops Darfur program Band

  14. 4. Don Bosco VTC & Social WorksWAU • Technical Centre • 90 students • 12 staff • 3 different trades: general mechanics, carpentry, plumbing, (printing dpt. upcoming) • Dispensary and medical laboratory; women promotion programs • Agricultural project (under study)

  15. Primary education Community involvment Prevention Nutrition Program

  16. 5. Don Bosco Educational CentreTONJ • Primary School: grades 1-8; 1200 students, • 80 staff • Hospital and dispensary • 10 rural schools have been started recently(each having 3 classrooms, water well, kitchen, two units for two teachers, bathrooms, agricultural project) • Livelihood training for women through self-help groups

  17. Rural schools Primary school Brass band Mine-awereness class

  18. 6. Don Bosco VTCJUBA A plan for the construction of the following works is under study: • Don Bosco Institute for Entrepreneurial Development • Development works

  19. Our key strategy:Education in all its forms! • Basic literacy programs • Primary and secondary education • Formal and informal vocational and technical education • Adult learning

  20. Why Education? • It is the right of every child to receive an education • It is a precondition for a vibrant economy and sustainable process of development • It is a powerful means of supporting the peace process

  21. Education implies: • Literacy Skills: Basic learning in numeracyand reading & writing • Livelihood Skills: Basic training in one of the following trades: masonry and construction; plumbing; electricity; carpentry; commercial agriculture • Life Skills:A holistic training in the following areas: conflict management; peace education; self-esteem building; interpersonal relations; responsible citizenship; entrepreneurship

  22. DBN Response Strategy_1 OVERALLOBJECTIVE To partner the process of building a new society in Sudan, where every person can live in peace and dignity PARTNER PEACE DIGNITY Networking with other agencies Supporting the peace process Poverty reduction

  23. DBN ResponseStrategy_2 PRINCIPALSTRATEGY EDUCATION Literacy skills LivelihoodSkills LifeSkills policy, teacher training, educational centres resource based, entrepreneurship, market linkages trauma, peace building, responsible citizenship

  24. Focusing on Sudan’s “South” NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS! • Children,as well as young adults and adults enabled to access education • Youngsters empowered to pursue sustainable livelihoods • IDPs accompanied towards a gainful resettlement

  25. 1 2 Improve access to schooling, especially for IDPs, in the town of Wau 3 Enable the start-up of small enterprises in the Wau County by providing employment oriented vocational training to youngsters Promote agro-based livelihoods in the Wau County through agricultural training and services Specific Interventions SOUTH SUDAN ZONE WAU

  26. Specific Interventions SOUTH SUDAN ZONE 4 7 5 Create a human resource base of entrepreneurial potential that will contribute to the economic development of South Sudan Improve access to schooling in the Tonj County Promote agro based livelihoods in the Tonj County through agricultural training and services. 6 Improve the status of women in the Tonj County through life skills and livelihoods training TONJ JUBA

  27. 1 2 Improve access to basic health care and educational services for the IDPs living in the squatter areas in the Kalakala locality of Khartoum. 3 Offer high quality job oriented professional training to IDPs in Khartoum by improving the standard at the St. Joseph VTC Facilitate the process of repatriation and resettlement of trained youth (IDPs) from Khartoum to South Sudan. Specific Interventions KHARTOUM ZONE

  28. 1 Provide employment oriented vocational training for 500 youngsters annually from Darfur Specific Interventions DARFUR ZONE EL OBEYD NYALA AL FASHER

  29. What we plan to do in Juba … Don Bosco Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship Development TECHNICAL SKILLS S/M ENTERPRISE MANAG. SKILLS MARKETING SKILLS • Start-up enterprise • Cooperative • Micro-credito • Self-employment AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL • Welding • Carpentry • Gen. Mechanics • Motor-mechanics • Masonry (plumbing) • Electricity • Commercial Agriculture • Irrigation Technology • Agro-based small enterprises • Food processing

  30. Don Bosco Institute for Entrepreneurship Development Don Bosco Institute for Entrepreneurship Development parallel programmes REPATRIATION OF IDPs REABILITATION OF EX SOLDIERS

  31. Areas of Collaboration and Partnership Poverty Reduction through: • Primary & Higher Education • Employment-oriented Training • Women Empowerment • Civil Society Empowerment

  32. >> CONTACTS: VIS SUDAN COUNTRY OFFICEMr. Andrea NalettoCountry RepresentativeHouse 28 – Block 9KE, Street 35, AmaratMobile: +249 (0) 915716442Tel/Fax: +249 (0) 155129797www.volint.it/sudansudanvis@gmail.com

  33. Thank You! CREDITS: Content: Andrea Naletto & Savio Silveira Graphics & Layout: Andrea Naletto

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