Education Sudan: Despite ongoing clashes, more schools are reopening in Blue Nile State. UNICEF launch the Integration and Mainstreaming of Refugee Children into the Sudanese Education System (IRCSES) initiative in Blue Nile. This program ensures access to safe, inclusive and quality education for 174,130 children.
KHARTOUM JULY 24: Two years after armed conflict in Sudan severely disrupted the education of more than 17 million children, UNICEF is supporting a safe return to school for young learners. Despite ongoing clashes, more schools are reopening in Blue Nile State, where UNICEF and partners, with EU funding, are running back-to-learning campaigns.
Parents are being encouraged to re-enroll their children, while students and teachers receive essential learning and teaching materials.
UNICEF Education Officer Abdalla Mahmoud Dagot takes viewers to Arabee Aradawiya girls’ school in Blue Nile, where excited students welcome the delivery of a year’s supply of school supplies: UNICEF backpacks, notebooks, colored pencils, rulers, chalk and more.
“The campaign is very important to allow children to continue their learning after disruptions,” says Abdalla Dagot. Education is a lifeline for students growing up in conflict zones.
In partnership with the European Union, UNICEF is proud to launch the Integration and Mainstreaming of Refugee Children into the Sudanese Education System (IRCSES) initiative in Blue Nile. This program ensures access to safe, inclusive and quality education for 174,130 children, including 15,892 IDPs, 393 refugees and 157,845 host community children across all 418 primary schools across the state.
It is important to point out that this measure is being carried out with EU funds and initiatives – as in the video it seems as if it is solely thanks to UNICEF that the schools are opening.
