Staff Writer
A group of concern citizens from Western Equatoria’s greater Mundri are mobilizing funds to support the education sector after nearly 100% students failed in last year’s Certificate of Secondary Education exams.
Western Equatoria registered poor performance in the recent released results for 2023, 2024 S.4 candidates, with some schools failing 100%
Charles Sismaya, who is the secretary for resource mobilization and think tank behind the initiative said they were devastated by the poor performance of the candidates from Western Equatoria in the 2023 high school examination
Sismaya said their plans are to organize a session in which all candidates from the greater Mundri will be brought together to be coached on the new syllabus in the country
“After this shocking result of 2023-2024, where the whole of the counties, Mundri East, Mundri Mavolo and Mundri West failed only 11% pass. Completely, the education system in Great Mundri has collapsed. It is really a disaster for the whole county like Mundri East to fail. No single student passed from Mundri East in last year’s examination. This is a disaster. As a concerned community, we took an initiative that we need to mobilize the resources and call for education conference to see what the problem is.” said Sismaya
He attributes that delay in teacher’s motivation has pushed them away from committing to support learners.
“Of course, the challenges are known that teachers are not those who are professionals supposed to teach because of the situation in the country. They have left the profession and joined other professions just to support their families. As a result, we are looking forward to call for the education conference so that we can address these problems.” He adds.
Sismaya revealed that their mobilization targets an initial budget estimating to more than 18 million South Sudanese pounds out of which 10 million has been raised.
The latter called for the intervention of development partners including UNICEF and UNESCO to support the education sector in the greater Mundri and the country at large.
