A community-based organization, Rural Development Action Aid (RDAA) last week launched the construction of three classroom blocks and an administration block for a primary school in Mvolo County of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State.
The school, Daa Dokolou Community Primary School, was established in 2011 with five classes from P1 to P5 and has been operating under the tree since then.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj in Yambio, RDAA Acting Director Zingorani Albert Joseph said they recently received funding from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan for the construction.
“Today we are launching another project in Mvolo County which is the construction of Daa Dokolou Community Primary School. We wrote a project about it to UNMISS through Quick Impact Project last year and we are glad that this year we have received the fund for the construction of the school,” Albert said. “The construction is going to take us four to five months for the three classroom blocks and the teacher’s office. When completed, we will also provide some furniture for the teachers and the toilet facility.”
Albert pointed out that learning in the school will not be interrupted by the construction process.
“There is only one grass classroom in that school and the other pupils are learning under trees. So we are not stopping the learning, because they have vast land and they have shown us where the construction will take place so the construction will be going on, as well as learning will also going on in the same compound,” he assured.
Paul Bari, a citizen in Mvolo County appreciated RDAA for the initiative saying pupils have been suffering during the rainy season.
“I want to thank RDAA for the work they are doing for us because before our children were studying in difficulties especially during the rains, without clean water or even food,” Bari said.