Photo Essay: Education in Conflict – One Year Later
In 2013, the LWF supported by the EU Children of Peace initiative started education programs for refugee children in Ajoung Thok and Maban, South Sudan. One and a half years later the first group of 202 students in Ajoung Thok completed their primary level exams.
As the conflicts in South Sudan and the Sudanese Nuba mountains are on-going, the influx of refugees to the camps in the Greater Upper Nile region has increased. Providing children with basic education, child protection and child-friendly spaces has become even more important as many of the children are in danger of being exploited through child labor, early marriage and recruitment into armed forces.
Being able to learn and play helps the children keep the vision of a future without conflict and a life in peace.
Photos: LWF South Sudan
9 February 2015
First class students line up at Napata Primary School in Ajoung Thok refugee camp, South Sudan.
Time to play: Students at Napata Primary School enjoy their break.
The big day: LWF Team leader Anne Mwaura addresses students before their primary level exams at Napata school.
Students sitting their exams. The examination had to be postponed due to the conflict in December.
Fatma and her baby son. The teenage mother is attending the LWF Accelerated Learning Program. “I want to learn and get a job” says the young woman, who is also taking care of four siblings.
