From South Sudan news of instability are coming these days that risk the peace process initiated after 21 years of armed conflict.  It could appear that instability in one region comes to an end after a peace accord but nothing can be further from the truth. One region coming through an armed conflict faces very serious problems: infrastructures destroyed no institutions and a social net undermined.

That's the reality that South Sudan is going through. Words failed to describe the scale of this drama. From Entreculturas, together with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) we have began an action to support the educative reconstruction of the country, a key point to restore a culture of peace. Staff of Entreculturas has just arrived from South Sudan where they have set with all community (teachers, families, students, local authorities, ...) the main points of the job to be developed.

The action we propose to carry out in South Sudan is specified in five projects revolved around education as an essential tool. Three of them emphasize the improvement of the quality and access conditions to the pre-school, primary and secondary education, restoring and equipping schools and training the teachers and the directors of the educative centres. Another project focuses in promoting the adult literacy with the aim to reduce the insecurity caused by the ignorance and favour in this way the openness  and tolerance of these people to other social realities. All these projects intend to promote activities of equity that helps to give more visibility and value to women role and the more vulnerable or with special needs people. 

Finally, once education is enforced and the mechanism for the community development made known, the fifth and last project intends to promote the peaceful coexistence and Human Rights respect between the returned, displaced and local population. Without peace, development will be seriously slow down, hence the importance of educate in the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

 "We trust that the JRS experience and good reputation it has after 10 years working in the area help to the success of all these actions" says Iván Touza, one of the Entreculturas' Technicians who travelled to South Sudan to plan the intervention together with the local population. "Also", Viviana Colella another Entreculturas' technician carries on, " has been really encouraging to see the generous and undertaken attitude of many of the directors and teachers (in some occasions really "keepers" of schools staying afloat and opening its doors everyday despite of the authorities´ delays in the payments)".