Around South Sudan, children are deprived of education and learning for various reasons. Hunger and poverty remains one of the most obstinate barriers. Children living through economic fragility, political instability, conflict or natural disaster are more likely to be cut off from schooling – as are those with disabilities, or from ethnic minorities. In some countries, education opportunities for girls remain severely limited.
3.6 million People, 97 per cent of whom are children, are estimated to need education services. Following COVID19, the closure of schools and broader socio-economic hardship exacerbated existing education challenges and inequities. In addition, about 139,000 refugee children also need education support. Prior to COVID-19 school closures, about 2.2 million children were already out of school. The school closures further impacted the education of over 2.7 million additional children. In May 2021, after 14 months of closure due to COVID-19, schools in South Sudan re-opened. The current estimated number of out of school children is 2.8 million.
VARD adopted Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) combine with the Adult and Literacy program to address the challenges of education and technical and vocational training to support resilience and sustainable livelihood to contribute to poverty reduction of youths in crises
TVET has a positive impact on harnessing the youth dividend, as well as economic up-liftmen, poverty alleviation and improving employability of youth.
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