Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Residents inGurei Block five decried lack of school and called on the gov’t to build a schoolin the area in order to enroll their children at affordable fees.
While addressing the media during one-day training for women held in Gurei yesterday, Luka Sebit Galaliya, are a leader called on the gov’t to build at least a primary school for the block.
“Our children are suffering; we need at least one school to be built here in our block this can help most of us who have little money to enroll our children,” Sebit said.
He called onthe government to help the people suffering in Gurei “my messageis that we residents of Gurei block five really need help, we are reallysuffering; no power, water and school,” he complained.
“There aresome of us who drink water from the nearby streams due to lack of borehole inthe area,
“It gives ushard time to get one borehole that we have now and it is not enough, we have avery big number in this area” he emphasized. He revealedthat the top government officials used to pass via the area, but failed torecognize the suffering of the people.
“Evenpresident himself usually pass near us here and he is not aware that we arereally suffering, that we have no school, we have no water among other services,”he complained.
He called onthe government to construct roads in order to allow movement without difficultyduring rainy season. “The roads here are very poor, we are between two streams and we have no bridge, this makes it very hard to cross to other areas during rainy season,” he revealed.
“It is veryhard for our children to go to school, when there is rain. the streams overflowwith water and hard for our children to cross to the other side where theyschool is based,
I called onthe government to address our issues, bring for us clean water, build for usthe bridge and school for our children” he stressed. “Iam veryhappy with the organization that have just trained the women on how to managetheir businesses and their families” he mentioned.
MeanwhileLona Lemi,one of the residents emphasized on the need for government toconstruct and open affordable school in the area. “We needgovernment to open for us school that can be affordable for us to enroll our children,”she decried.
“This willhelp us to take our children to the school with the little money that we have,”Lona said.
“We are sufferingpaying huge fees to private schools, my children were sent out from class lastmonth due school fees” Lona complained.
“I borroweda lot of money to pay their school fees and up to now I am still paying back,”she added.
“When thereis rain, we really suffer to cross the stream,it is very hard, therefore Icalled on the government to construct for us the bridge and a primary schoolfor our children” she concluded.
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