Juba, 30 September, 2022 / 4:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) in South Sudan are offering education and medical care to thousands of Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) at the Don Bosco Gumbo camp n Juba.
In a Friday, September 30 report by Mission Newswire, the official news service of Salesian Missions, “Don Bosco Gumbo provides education for more than 4,000 children and older youth in its schools.”
“There are two kindergartens, two primary-middle schools, an accelerated elementary school, a secondary school, and vocational training center, which offers courses in electricity, mechanics, stoneworks-masonry, solar panel technician, welding and computer studies,” the Mission Newswire report indicates.
In the report, officials of Salesian Missions, the U.S.-based development arm of SDB, say that “more than 700 older youth gain skills for later employment through this training.”
“The camp, established in January 2014 after the outbreak of the civil war in December 2013, currently hosts 10,000 people, most of whom are women, children and the elderly. Salesians provide shelter, food, education, medical care and other basic needs,” they add in reference to the IDP camp served Salesian missionaries based at St. Vincent de Paul Parish of Juba Archdiocese.
