A three-year women’s education program was begun for 60 women who would not have otherwise had a chance of education. Thie curriculum included literacy, applied numeracy and science. The women met under the trees because the building available had been bombed during the civil war. The Sudan Support Fund paid for the ruined building to be repaired for their use as a study.
This was an extremely important step in many women’s lives – Sudan has one of the lowest rates of literacy in the world at only 2% of the population having received primary education. Opportunities to lift their families out of poverty and improve their lives were now available.
The following year, history and home economics were added to the curriculum. The ladies learnt to speak, read and write in English and lead Bible studies in their own language.
