Omilling’s former child-soldier problem is a complicated one!
Astrid Wang and Lunde Arneberg from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design are returning to Omilling to construct Mario primary school in November. The plan A – is to build one classroom, girl-pit latrine, and a teacher’s house. They are busy re-designing the school’s structure to match village’s standard.
Fighting against decades of marginalization and intense state of poverty that spawn the practice, it is sometimes hard to imagine there is a way to help. Funding school building may seem like a small thing to do when thousands of children are living in such a hard conditions, but this school provide more than an education. It provides hope, dignity, and a sense of well-being. But most of all, it brings the new-beginning into the lives of these precious former child-soldiers.
Hundreds of former child-soldiers find hope in the fact that they attend school each week. For many it is their escape from a harsh reality. They are getting an education that will help them get a job one day and keep them from being marginalized.
Ten in 10 girls in Omilling cannot read and write. And only one out of 300 girls in Omilling is at Juba University.
Omilling is building a school for the first time in the village’s history. But they lack the building materials. Could you consider helping to build Mairo primary school?
What will you give?
- cement to make soil blocks -$10
- Timbers and nails – $20
- Corrugated iron sheets – $25
- A door and a frame – $240
- A window and a frame – $200
- 100 bags cement builds 4 classrooms – $887
