Our Construction Progress and Objectives

Currently, PES works cooperatively with rural communities to support the building of schools in three villages in Bor and Twic East Counties in Jonglei State.

At present a secondary coeducational boarding school, Jonglei Hope Academy, in Maar is scheduled to open as a day school with six classrooms, teacher’s office, lab, 5 pit latrines and a kitchen/dining room in 2010. Plans for 2011 include a girl’s and a boy’s dorm. We are also facilitating major upgrades which include the building of four classrooms for Marc Nikkel Primary School in Maar. An all girls’ boarding school, Ayak Anguei Primary, in Konbek opened with 4 permanent and 6 temporary classrooms in 2010. Two new dormitories will be completed in June 2010. Plans for 2011 include adding a admin/library building. Pagook Secondary School completed two classrooms in May 2009 with two more classrooms to be completed in July 2010. Plans for 2011 include adding pit latrines and a admin/library building. We plan to support these schools for a period of five years or until they are able to become self-sufficient.

Schools are being built by volunteer and paid local laborers supervised by a local construction manager or a PES Sudanese school site coordinator. We work in harmony and, in some cases, partner with international and indigenous organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, CARE International, JAM, Polish Humanitarian Action, UNICEF, World Food Programme, and Save the Children Sweden International whose focus is the rebuilding of Southern Sudan. Each village has received from Project Education Sudan brick-making equipment for construction of its school, and for manufacture and sale of bricks to other villages when school construction is complete. We also provide a commercial grain grinder for each village to allow girls and women the time to participate in education, as well as sewing machines for local production of school uniforms. At each school site we have drilled a well to provide a source of clean water for the students and the community. Project Education Sudan makes twice yearly donations to each village for supplemental school supplies.