Aid workers have erected 13 temporary structures to serve as schools in Awerial County for refugees from neighboring Jonglei State.
According to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the relief workers have also distributed learning materials for 1,035 children.
Lakes State is now home to about 100,000 people displaced by conflict, most of them from Jonglei State, which lies across the Nile to the east.
In an update released on Friday, OCHA added that learning materials have also been distributed to 218 primary school children in Rubkona, in Unity State to the north.
OCHA noted also that delays in salary payments of state-employed teachers are negatively affecting education in the country
According to the UN agency, some 58 schools across the country reportedly remain occupied by displaced people or armed forces.
In addition to these 58 schools, Radio Tamazuj has verified from officials in a number of counties, including Pochalla and Pibor, that a large number of other schools that are not necessarily ‘occupied’ are nonetheless abandoned by the teachers and not open to students.
File photo: A girl learns English in a ‘Temporary Learning Space’ built by Mercy Corps in Marial Boma Primary School, Guit County, Unity State (UN)