Transcript Renewing Education, Rebuilding Sudan!

Reviving
Reviving
Education,
Education,
Rebuilding
Rebuilding
Sudan!
Sudan!
Presentation’s outline
1. Who are we at VIS
2. Our local partner:
the Don Bosco Society
of Sudan
3. Education:
our key strategy
4. Sudan Programme
5. Conclusion
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
We are committed 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-entrepreneurial
activities
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
Spain
The DBN members:
Germany
Belgium
Austria
Italy
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
Geographical
Focus
Khartoum ZONE
KHARTOUM
El Obeyd
Al Fasher
Nyala
DARFUR ZONE
Tonj
SOUTH
Juba SUDAN ZONE
Wau
1. Saint Joseph’s VTC
KHARTOUM
 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
Electronics
Carpentry
Auto-Mechanics
Printing Press
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)
Women promotion
Primary education
Health Services
Adult learning
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 students
from the Nuba Mountains
 40 staff
 7 different trades
(auto-mechanics,
general mechanics,
carpentry, welding,
masonry, electricity,
plumbing)
Squeezed, but happy!
State-of-art workshops
Band
Darfur program
4. Don Bosco VTC &
Social Works
WAU
 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)
Primary education
Community involvment
Nutrition Program
Prevention
5. Don Bosco
Educational Centre
TONJ

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
Rural schools
Primary school
Brass band
Mine-awereness class
6. Don Bosco VTC
JUBA
A plan for the construction of the
following works is under study:
1. Don Bosco Institute for
Entrepreneurial Development
2. Development works
Our key strategy:
Education in all its forms!
1. Basic literacy programs
2. Primary and secondary
education
3. Formal and informal
vocational and
technical education
4. Adult learning
Why Education?
1. It is the right of every
child to receive an
education
2. It is a precondition for
a vibrant economy and
sustainable process
of development
3. It is a powerful means
of supporting the
peace process
Education implies:
1. Literacy Skills:
Basic learning in numeracy
and reading & writing
2. Livelihood Skills:
Basic training in one of the following
trades: masonry and construction;
plumbing; electricity; carpentry;
commercial agriculture
3. Life Skills:
A holistic training in the following
areas: conflict management; peace
education; self-esteem building;
interpersonal relations; responsible
citizenship; entrepreneurship
DBN Response
Strategy_1
OVERALL
OBJECTIVE
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
DBN Response
Strategy_2
PRINCIPAL
STRATEGY
EDUCATION
Literacy
skills
Livelihood
Skills
Life
Skills
policy,
teacher training,
educational
centres
resource based,
entrepreneurship,
market linkages
trauma,
peace building,
responsible
citizenship
Focusing on
Sudan’s “South”
NOT EXCLUSIVELY
IN GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS!
1. Children, as well as
young adults and
adults enabled to
access education
2. Youngsters empowered
to pursue sustainable
livelihoods
3. IDPs accompanied
towards a gainful
resettlement
Specific Interventions
SOUTH SUDAN ZONE
1
2
Improve access
to schooling,
especially
for IDPs,
in the town
of Wau
Enable the
start-up of small
enterprises in
the Wau County
by providing
employment
oriented vocational
training
to youngsters
WAU
3
Promote
agro-based
livelihoods
in the Wau County
through agricultural
training
and services
Specific Interventions
SOUTH SUDAN ZONE
4
5
Improve
access to
schooling in
the Tonj County
Promote
agro based
livelihoods in the
Tonj County
through
agricultural
training and
services.
TONJ
6
7
Improve
the status of
women in the
Tonj County
through life skills
and livelihoods
training
Create a
human resource
base of
entrepreneurial
potential that will
contribute to the
economic
development
of South Sudan
JUBA
Specific Interventions
KHARTOUM ZONE
1
Improve
access to basic
health care and
educational
services for the
IDPs living in the
squatter areas in
the Kalakala
locality of
Khartoum.
2
Offer high quality
job oriented
professional
training to IDPs in
Khartoum by
improving the
standard at the St.
Joseph VTC
3
Facilitate
the process of
repatriation and
resettlement of
trained youth (IDPs)
from Khartoum to
South Sudan.
Specific Interventions
DARFUR ZONE
1
Provide
employment
oriented vocational
training for
500 youngsters
annually
from Darfur
EL OBEYD
NYALA
AL FASHER
What we plan to do in Juba …
Don Bosco Institute for
Youth Entrepreneurship Development
S/M ENTERPRISE
MANAG. SKILLS
TECHNICAL SKILLS
AGRICULTURAL
1. Commercial
Agriculture
2. Irrigation
Technology
3. Agro-based small
enterprises
4. Food processing
INDUSTRIAL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Welding
Carpentry
Gen. Mechanics
Motor-mechanics
Masonry
(plumbing)
6. Electricity
MARKETING SKILLS
1.
2.
3.
4.
Start-up enterprise
Cooperative
Micro-credito
Self-employment
Don Bosco Institute for
Entrepreneurship Development
Don Bosco Institute for
Entrepreneurship Development
parallel programmes
REPATRIATION
OF IDPs
REABILITATION
OF EX SOLDIERS
Areas of Collaboration
and Partnership
Poverty Reduction through:
1. Primary & Higher
Education
2. Employment-oriented Training
3. Women Empowerment
4. Civil Society
Empowerment
>> CONTACTS:
VIS SUDAN COUNTRY OFFICE
Mr. Andrea Naletto
Country Representative
House 28 – Block 9KE, Street 35, Amarat
Mobile: +249 (0) 915716442
Tel/Fax: +249 (0) 155129797
www.volint.it/sudan
[email protected]
Thank You!
CREDITS:
Content: Andrea Naletto & Savio Silveira
Graphics & Layout: Andrea Naletto