Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

NESEI will revolutionize education in Southern Sudan, thus helping to secure a lasting peace. NESEI schools will boost critical human resource capacity in the areas of health care, business, agriculture, governance, gender studies and peace studies.

Project Message

"If we educate these children we will have peace. If we do not we will remain at war".
- Yomchiir village elder, village elder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Robert Lair,
Co-Director
NESEI
123 Ethan Allen Avenue, Box #9
Colchester, VT 05446
United States
8023240279
Email:

Project Sponsor

World Bank Development Marketplace

Organization

Learn more about New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI) and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Sudan and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Sudan, read the Human Development Report on Sudan or the Wikipedia entry for Sudan.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 29, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

NESEI School Right on Schedule

By Mari K. Wright - Update on NESEI School, February 29, 2008 04:59 PM

NESEI’s Sudan Field Officer Lauren Servin reported today that the site of the first school is right on schedule, with construction, student recruitment, and teacher training moving along at an efficient pace. The school, which is being built in Yei, South Sudan, will open to its initial 150 students in late April, with plans to increase student enrollment as funds are raised.

Servin reported that the floors and roofs have been completed on both the classroom and the dormitory buildings, and construction of the dining hall and kitchen has begun. The construction of the classroom blocks should be finished on March 19. In addition, fencing around the perimeter of the campus is nearing completion.

While the field staff are busy building up, they’re also digging down: the foundations for the latrines and showers have been finished, and the borehole, which will pipe in fresh water for the campus and adjoining school farm, is being drilled this week.

Essential agreements and partnerships for construction and recruitment have also been recently created, which will ensure the school's steady progression. The contract for the Staff/Guest housing has been signed and construction on those buildings is set to begin immediately. NESEI’s innovative design for a solar energy system is almost complete, which will provide clean, sustainable, and reliable energy to the entire campus.

The school will welcome six teachers from Kampala, Uganda, who will be joining our school staff on March 24 to begin training and NESEI orientation. From March 26-April 20 curriculum and staff development, as well as classroom preparation will be completed. Interviews of potential students will be conducted in Yei starting March 22, and in the neighboring towns of Juba and Arua beginning March 29.

All of the hard work and waiting will be rewarded on April 21, when NESEI’s new students begin arriving. Classes are scheduled to begin around April 28.

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