A group of UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) - with the help of a few prison inmates -- have given new life to a run-down girls' school in Kadugli.
Pupils singing welcome song at school inauguaration
Kalimo Basic Girls School now has a shiny new coat of blue paint, a five-foot wall with two gates, blackboards in all classrooms, a seesaw and a volleyball court. Classroom walls have been decorated with multiplication tables, the English and Arabic alphabets, and maps of the world as well as Sudan.
Coordinated by UNMIS' Indian Force Reserve Battalian, agencies assisting with the renovation included UNICEF, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Food Programme and the Norwegian Relief Council as well as the NGOs Mobadaroon, CARE and Save the Child. The South Kordofan Police Department pitched in by providing prison inmates to assist with labour. |
The building was officially inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Southern Kordofan Minister of Youth and Sports Ahmed Tajir, the state's Director-General of Police Mohammed Ahamed Alfadal as well as community leaders and local residents.
Ahmed Tajir, South Kordofan Minister of Youth
and Sports, inaugurating the school
School children entertained the gathering with a cultural programme, which was followed by a tea party put on by the Indian Battalion. The children were presented with school bags containing notebooks, compass boxes, and pen sets.
School children dancing in the cultural show
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