“It is an affordable good quality education”: Comboni Missionaries in South Sudan

“There are many students in universities, Juba University, Catholic University, who finished their primary schools in Yirol, Br Pomykacz said and continued, “this is a kind of encouragement for us to see the results of people who passed our schools.  In the scale of Yirol, we are the institution comprising two schools, and we are the ones releasing the highest number of primary leavers.”

The 38-year-old Polish missionary Brother revealed that students graduating from their schools “have knowledge and good performance and proceed with education to the highest level of education.”

On his part Br. Jorge Rodriguez Floyd working in the nation’s Diocese of Malakal disclosed the Province of Comboni Missionaries has plans underway in the education sector to meet the Comboni tradition of education.

“We are organizing to clarify our education to make it the Comboni tradition and education that we have gained through the many years of our presence in Africa,” Bro. Jorge Rodrigug Floyd, an educationist in Old Fangak Parish told ACI Africa.

“I was very much impressed by all the missions that have schools like in Tali, in Yirol and Mapuordit, as well as in Old Fangak, and we were able to share our experience in education,” he said.

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The Mexican-born Brother said, “Our system is to provide an integral education that takes into account the formation, the education of values especially the Christian values in our children, in our youth, that they can in future develop kind of social aspects in reference to their societies and to live together as brothers and sisters in a Christian way.”

As their principle of action, Br. Rodriguez reflected and recalled that the tradition of Comboni Missionaries has always been an inclusive package of societal services.

“Over a hundred years there was a tradition of the Comboni’s to establish a Church, the school and the dispensary,” he said and continued, “The dispensaries are transferred into hospitals, the schools with a high-quality education is our purpose.”

He added “I appreciated that the value of Comboni schools is really in high favor by our students that they are taught integral education.” 

With visible impact of education in Catholic schools, the challenge of professionally trained teachers continues to hinder progress in this important sector.

“Many young people teaching in Catholic-owned primary schools across South Sudan are merely sharing their knowledge and have not taken teaching as a profession for life,” the religious administrator of educational institutions told ACI Africa.