220 children ready to get involved with CRESS in South Sudan

The children of Westbury CE Junior School are keen to learn about South Sudan and to partner a school in Kajo Keji in order to support them with friendship, visits and in other practical ways.

Andrew Robertson , the CRESS UK Operations Manager spoke at their assembly last week and when he gave out lots of chocolate bars to a small group of children, and just a few chocolate bars to a big group of children, they all chorused “it’s not fair!” A valuable lesson about the disparity of food distribution between developed countries like the UK, and developing countries like South Sudan.

Being a child in South Sudan is hard!

Most children don’t go to school, and can be found working in the fields and quarries, extremely hard work.  Education is a paid for privilege, and not attainable for most families who simply can’t afford it to send their children to school.  Find out more about our education programme here.