Embracing education
Primary school teacher Afrina Zechariah Anabak inspects the connection ports on her computer during a training session for teachers and secondary school graduates.
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Text and photos by Cornelia Kästner/ Lutheran World Information
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Fadina, 16 (below left; last name not given), lost her mother in the Kordofan confl ict. As the new head of her household, every morning she cooks breakfast and then sends her younger siblings to school. In the afternoon a neighbor cares for them while Fadina attends the camp’s Accelerated Learning Program for more than 1,000 teens who want to complete primary school. Fadina wants to become a minister for gender affairs in the Nuba Mountains.
n most cases the mouse is green and the key- board purple,” the teacher explained. Twenty-seven men and women inspected
the back frames of their PCs to fi nd the con- nector ports she described during a recent computer class for teachers and secondary school graduates at Ajuong T ok refugee camp in South Sudan’s Unity state. Sponsored by the Lutheran World Federa-
tion (LWF), UNICEF and Vodafone Founda- tion, 2,000 primary and secondary students will receive tablets to learn basic computer skills. But before the students can be taught, the teachers must fi rst learn how to use computers. “I want to learn how to use a computer
because they store data,” said Artum Noah Kansal, a 27-year-old mother of four. Like everyone else in the camp, she and her family fl ed the Nuba Mountains when confl ict broke out in the Kordofan region. She came to Aju- ong T ok because of the LWF’s free schools. “We are moving toward a global village,”
LWF team leader Anne Mwaura said. “By teaching the refugee students how to use computers, we help them catch up with the rest of the world.”
Author bio: Kästner is a journalist for World Service, Department for Planning and Operations with the Lutheran World Federation Office for Communication Services.
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