Many thanks to Peter Cassidy for changing the Timpir website so that we are now able to more easily post updates on our projects in South Sudan. Here is the fist of what will be regular updates on the progress and developments of Timpir’s projects.
Timpir’s first ever cohort of Year 8 students sat their national exams
These are the first group of Year 8 students to successfully graduate Wäramoth Primary School. Graduates included 1 female student. The students did very well, most have now gone on to high school with some finding employment with NGOs.
at the end of 2013. All 13 students (including 1 female) passed their exams successfully, with several achieving in the top group in the Wäramoth region.
Timpir has again been supporting our two schools in South Sudan in 2014. 8 teachers have been employed at Wäramoth Primary to teach 411 students in Years 1 to 8 (245 boys and 166 girls).
Wäramoth Primary School
The Wäramoth community continues to maintain the buildings that have been built over the past 8 years, and all the buildings are currently in good condition.
The community has also been generously supported by another NGO
The toilet block with a hand washing tank out the front.
The new desks in the classroom.
Students sitting on bricks and the ground in classrooms.
Wäramoth Primary School has also been lucky to receive support to make 45 desks for students. Previously students would sit on the ground or on bricks or stones that they had found. Now 3-4 students are able to share a desk which enables them to write in their books and sit for the school day much more comfortably. At this stage only the Year 5-8 classes have desks.
Timpir has also continued our support of Mabok Primary School in 2014, employing 5 teachers to teach growing numbers of students in Years 1-7. There are currently 383 students
Awal, Mabok’s female teacher.
at Mabok PS (97 girls and 286 boys). Excitingly, Timpir has employed a female teacher at Mabok for a second year, and it is hoped that this will help to encourage more girls to attend school.
Despite the current challenges facing much of South Sudan, Northern Bahr el Ghazal (the state in which Timpir currently operates) is stable and secure. This enables us to continue our important work and continue to educate the future generation of South Sudan. We look forward to our second cohort of Year 8 students (17 of them, including 1 female) sitting their exams at the end of the year, and wish all our students all the very best for their continued studies this year.
Year 8 students in class
