Posted by: Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program
Date: February 25, 2009
- Narrator
- Teenage boys targeted by rebel groups keen to recruit them can also be tempted to drop out of school. But despite the immense challenges they face, once they’ve got a taste for education, both boys and girls tend to aim high.
- Beina Ahmat Adam, Student (Narrator translates)
- I want to be a doctor or a teacher.
- Zakaria Isshakh Souleiman, Student (Narrator translates)
- After I finish school and have my certificates, I want to get a job. I would like one day to be the Minister of Home Affairs.
- Farihalh Mahamt Saleh, Student (Narrator translates)
- My big ambition is to one day become a Minister in the government.
- Narrator
- While it may be a long time before they can fulfill these ambitions, at least the possibility of going to school in Javo has brought them one step closer. Under the 9 million initiative, education in camps like Javo will be expanded to include secondary education.