| Sudan: World Vision facilitates training of Darfur teachers |
| Thursday, 09 April 2009 16:19 | |||||||
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Story by Dan Teng’o
World Vision facilitated sessions for 66 untrained teachers in South Darfur to be equipped with child-friendly teaching skills. “We want to encourage the teachers to make their schools friendlier to children,” said Joyce Kago, World Vision’s child care and gender adviser. The ongoing conflict in Darfur has displaced many trained teachers, leaving the task of educating many of the region’s children to untrained teachers. Further, many qualified teachers have left the region due to meagre pay and poor infrastructure. Classrooms are often overcrowded, typically accommodating between 60 and 100 children. The training sessions conducted between 29 March and 2 April also furnished the untrained teachers with basic methodologies for teaching subjects such as mathematics, Arabic language, history, art, geography and science in basic schools. The sessions took place at the Teachers’ Training Institute in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. The untrained teachers drawn from 13 schools, some from camps for internally displaced people, were trained on how to promote children’s rights and improve the quality of education at their institutions. “I’ve learned a lot of techniques. I can’t wait to apply them in my work,” said Mohammed al-Hassan, an English teacher at Jabel Marra Basic School. “The session on how to use visual aids was particularly interesting,” he said. Aside from facilitating the training of untrained teachers, World Vision is also supporting the education of war-affected children in Darfur by rehabilitating schools and providing learning materials. Also, it distributes school uniforms and sensitises Parent Teacher Associations on children’s rights and effective school management in partnership with the Ministry of Education.
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