Water and sanitation makes school girl-friendly in Juba, southern Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan, 26 January 2005 – Lack of water and sanitation has made studies a constant struggle for the 15,000 students at St. Joseph Basic School in Juba, the capital of Bahr el Jebel state in southern Sudan. To create a better learning environment for these children and to keep them in school, UNICEF has stepped in to bring much needed clean water and sanitation facilities to schools in Juba.
Darfur orphan searches for family
DARFUR, 24 November 2004 -- Hamudi Abdullah Mohammed sits quietly in the office of an aid agency working in Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp. He’s different than other children. He’s not cheerful or pleased to meet newcomers.
A journey back to hope
Twenty-two-year-old Daniel Riong is a student at Rumbek Secondary School in southern Sudan and a teacher at the nearby Deng Nhial Primary School. But in an isolated community ravaged by 21 years of civil war, multiple famines and endless cycles of disease, no one finds this strange.
He is also a former child soldier.
Education helps Darfur’s children in Chad to cope with traumatic experiences
N’DJAMENA, Chad, 5 October 2004 – For the past 18 months, thousands of children from the Darfur region of Sudan have sought refuge in Eastern Chad after being driven from their villages.
In Darfur, both parents and children are victims of violence
DARFUR, 20 September 2004 – Fatma gently rocks Ghisma, her eight-month-old baby, while she hums a lullaby. The baby’s skin is covered in little spots and he moans and sighs deeply. He has measles. He also has a bullet wound in his arm.
Tens of thousands of children and women flee brutal attacks in Sudan
1 APRIL 2004, N’DJAMENA – Some 110,000 Sudanese refugees, the majority children and women, have recently fled into Chad’s remote and forbidding eastern desert region following brutal attacks on their villages.
Guinea worm causes physical pain for people, economic pain for countries
John Jal Youl pulls up a pant leg and points to a faded scar on his ankle. "That is where he came out," he says, brushing his hand over a pink circle on his weathered black skin. "The wound burned like a fire."
Education, the essential success factor for girls in Sudan’s nomadic communities
Gaining access to education is no mean feat for children in the remote nomadic communities of Sudan, but the challenges are even greater for girls, as domestic duties and traditions pose significant hurdles.
