For the Children’s Sake Foundation was blessed in June, 2007 with the opportunity to provide in-service training to teachers from three schools supported by Servant’s Heart in Southern Sudan.
The 21 teachers who attended training reach over 2000 students in their combined schools. Training took place in a compound of mud and grass huts. The kitchen is pictured at right, with our 14 year old cook.
This area of Southern Sudan is so remote there are no roads linking villages, and no vehicles to drive if there were roads. All supplies and people coming from the outside arrive by small plane through AIM Air, a missionary flight service. At right is the plane on which Nancy arrived, along with supplies flown in for the training.
Participating teachers from one village walked 5 hours to get to the training site, while teachers from another walked 7 hours. Some students walk as much as 2 hours to school. Dr. Price spent two weeks working with the gentlemen pictured to the right. They are some of the few people in the entire area to have finished elementary school, and have also had a few years of high school. Because they grew up during the decades-long civil war, the education they received was fragmented, often in refugee camps in Kenya or Ethiopia.
It is our prayer that FSCF will be able to go back and do more training in the near future.
