University of El Imam El Mahdi

Country: Sudan - White Nile State

University Name: University of El Imam El Mahdi

Website: www.mahdi.edu.sd

Email: mahdi@mahdi.edu.sd

Education First

Name: Waleed Ali Hamid Aboshora

Address: Faculty of Community Development, University of El

Imam El Mahdi, City of Rabak

■ The Faculty of Community Development was established in 2006.

■ It includes seven centers in the countryside of various geographicalareas:

1. Aljazeera Center

2. Al-Shawal Center

3. Guly Center

4. Alfashashoya Center

5. Alkunooz Center

6. Almigainis center

7. Tandelty center

■ The faculty concerns about women issues.

■ It also implements many community-oriented projects.

EDUCATION FIRST

Project Title

Objectives:

■ Educational Awareness:

• Correcting misconceptions about

education, especially females education.

• To raise the level of interest in academic

education versus religious education.

• To actively contribute to the campaign of

eradicating illiteracy by focusing on two

categories; elders and housewives.

Development objectives

■ To provide office furniture to the teachers'

office.

■ To provide classrooms boards.

■ To contribute to classrooms building.

■ The program was executed in January 2017.

■ Total number of academic staff participating in thecurrent program is (48) members.

■ Total number of female students enrolled in theprogram (412) students.

■ Total number of community members served by theprogram in the current academic year (21,000)inhabitants.

■ Locality of Algutaina, Alkunooz village. The natureof the programs offered can be described as preventiveawareness-raising programs.

■ Locality of Tandelty, Azrag village. The nature of theprograms and services offered are both developmentaland service programs.

Introduction:

■ The community of White Nile State is classified as a

heterogeneous society.

■ The Faculty of Community Development at University of El

Imam El Mahdi observes this issue while developing its plans,

programs and activities

Introduction:■ Some of the ethnic groups of these areas have nevertheless been

isolated, scattered and closed on their own.

■ This self introversion is caused by many reasons; the most important

one is the weakness in education and the awareness on its importance

which led to the existence of inherited misconceptions from one

generation to another.

■ we have insured the necessity to organize a program named "Education

First". to promote the importance of education.

Targeted Community Groups:

■ The programs and activities of the project (Education First)

are dedicated to all members of the community, taking into

account social and cultural differences.

Program Activities■ Identify the urgent needs of the local community.

■ Holding meetings and consultations with social figures,

mayors and community leaders.

■ Holding lectures with citizens in order to create consultation

on the issue of education.

■ Subjecting facilitators to systematic and intensive trainings on

how to intervene professionally in the community.

■ To organize field visits in order to assess the educational

status

Program Activities

■ To engage an open discussions with parents on the dangers

and negative impacts of child labor.

Project Summary

■ Alkunooz Village, Localitly of Algutaina

- a population of (20,000) inhabitants.

- The Hausa tribe by its own represents (80%) of the total

population

- - is known for its strict adherence to customs, traditions and

social norms, which made it a closed society that is difficult to

integrate with other tribes.

Project Summary

■ The center for Community Development in Alkunooz village

has faced this issue by announcing the faculty programs

where only one student from the Hausa Tribe has joined

which was frustrating.

■ Considering that this very massive entity is in dire need of this

program, the center began to conduct visits to families which

led to an increase in the number of enrolled female students

Project Summary

■ This massive impact is a result of the courses and programs

organized by the Faculty of Community Development which

created an exemplar shift that raised the level of awareness

and abandonment of all that is related to these

misconceptions that made it a weak society.

■ This positive change confirms the effectiveness of the

programs and courses of the Faculty of Community

Development in achieving the desired objectives.

Project Achievements

■ Elimination of misconceptions about the value of education,

especially women's education.

■ Narrowing the circle of educational gap

■ Establishment of in-town literacy Camps for housewives and

elders

■ Connecting the indigenous people and the self-closed

ethnicities

Project Achievements

■ Complete the construction of the sixth classroom.

■ Provide classroom boards (8).

■ Provide assistive devices and tools for the teachers ' office.

THANK YOU!