- – Project Title: Civic education session in 6 secondary schools in Al-Fashir
- – Project Duration: 15 days
- – Project Location: Al-Fashir
- – Funding Organization: USAID
- – Year of Funding/Status: 2021
- – Amount of Funding: 1,332,000 SDG
- – Beneficiaries of the project: 4,900 person
With funds and partnership with USAID, DOFDAHR implemented civic education in six secondary schools in Al-Fasher city in the period from 8/3/2021 to 18/3/2021. The activity is part of the USAID project “Toward Enduring Peace in Sudan (TEPS)”. This activity was proposed by DOFDAHR after the February demonstrations in Al-Fasher that resulted in the damage of many public buildings by the demonstrators. The objectives of this activity are the awareness of the community of the importance of the protection of public buildings for the benefit of all community members and teaching for peaceful demonstration and peaceful demand of rights.
Raising awareness of the community of their roles, rights, and duties under the context of civil rule country. Also, the awareness session in the six schools highlighted the issues of patriotism, citizenship, diversity management, the importance of peaceful co-existence between different ethnic groups. Volunteers from DOFDAHR health promotion sessions on keeping a healthy school environment and personal hygiene.
The awareness sessions are accompanied by music bands from the students to display the different traditional cultures of different ethnic groups in Darfur.
In all the schools reached, awareness sessions were conducted on COVID-19, and face masks and sanitizers were distributed to all the students in the six schools (4,900 students).
The school reached for civic education awareness and COVID-19 sessions are:
- 1. Darfur Secondary for Boys, 1,150 students and 35 teachers
- 2. The Eastern Secondary School for Girls, 650 students, 26 teachers and 6 workers.
- 3. Al-Fasher Model Secondary School for Girls, 850 students, 31 teachers.
- 4. Al-Fasher Al-Ahlya Secondary School for Boys, 430 students, 18 teachers.
- 5. Al-Wehda Secondary School for boys, 649 students, 23 teachers.
- 6. Al-Manar Secondary School for Boys, 1,180 students and 36 teachers.
The closing ceremony for the civic education sessions:
DIFDAHR conducted a closing ceremony at the end of the civic education training sessions. The ceremony was conducted at Al-Manar Secondary School for Girls. The closing ceremony was attended by the Manager of the project “Toward Enduring Peace in Sudan (TEPS) and attended by the State Director of Secondary School Education, the representative of the State Governor (Wali), the State Medea Director, the Director of the Graduates Employment Fund. The closing ceremony contained a lecture on patriotism and civic education for school students.
Music bands from Al-Fasher Secondary School for Girls, Eastern Secondary School for Girls, Al-Manar Secondary School for Girls, and the music band of Darfur Secondary School for Boys. Also, the closing ceremony was attended by all headmasters of the secondary schools that participated in the civic education program and representatives of the neighboring schools such as Al-Mustagbal Secondary School in Al-Nasr block. 1,500 participants attended the closing ceremony including students, teachers, and guests. COVID-19 awareness was carried out, and 1,600 face masks and sanitizers were distributed to the participants.
