by Jonathan Morris | Feb 17, 2018 | Education, Newsletter, Student Stories
If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then this week we have 8,000 words for you! Here are eight photos that sum up the first week of our new school year. Students began arriving on campus. Requirements for boarding...
by Tami Carsillo | Dec 27, 2017 | Education
Part 3: School In the first article in our series on recognizing the barriers to girls’ education in South Sudan, we identified four spheres of society in which barriers are present: family, school, community, and national. In the second article of the series, we...
by Jonathan Morris and Anita Henderlight | Nov 20, 2017 | Education
Part 2: Family In the first article in our series on recognizing the barriers to girls’ education in South Sudan, we identified four spheres of society in which barriers are present: family, school, community, and national. In this post, we will take a look at the...
by Jonathan Morris | Oct 30, 2017 | Education
Africa ELI staff were greatly concerned when they heard that one of the senior girls would not be returning to Yei for her final term of high school. She was a well-performing student. She routinely participated in co-curricular activities, and had many friends on...