Upon my return to South Sudan with the great knowledge that I gained in
Indiana University, and the good experiences I learned from the conferences, I
am now well-equipped and capable to progress more successfully in my profession
and able to deal with some educational, social and cultural issues in my
country.
One way I will encourage girl’s
education will be to organize a workshops in one of our state governmental
secondary schools for girls. I will start with (Wau Bmili S.S Girls). The first
reason why I chose this school because it is located close to the Ministry of Education
and this will help me invite one or two people from the Gender Office to attend
this workshop. Secondly, I taught in this school before I shifted to Bahr el Ghazal University therefore, with the help of my former colleagues it will be
easier for me to arrange this workshop. These workshops will not be restricted
to particular school, since I can organized workshops in any of governmental
school in the state.
The step for the specific day for
the workshop, I will contact the headmaster of the school to have an idea about
the workshop and how we can schedule for the workshop due to the school’s time
table.
In this first workshop I will discuss the importance of education in
women’s lives, why it is important for them to continue with their education to
the higher level, giving examples from my educational background to encourage
them. I will be happy to have two of my colleagues (Lucy and Viola) to attend
the workshop as the role models. Not only this but the main point is to discuss
with those girls to hear their problems and opinions about some social,
economic, cultural and family issues as well as personal ideas that are affecting
their education. I believe discussing these issues together with girls we can
come out with a good result for the better solution that encourage their education.
