This year, with additional classroom space, we have been able to give our older students, from grades 7 -12, a
full day of school and a full curriculum. This has presented a challenge to some of them, who now have to get up at
7:00 am.
Thanks to the cooperation of the Southern Sudanese Teachers Union, the Sudanese Embassy
and the Egyptian Ministry of Education, refugee schools in Egypt may now offer the Sudanese school curriculum and sit for
Sudanese 8th Grade and High School certificates. For the first time ever, our children will be able to achieve real
school diplomas. Under the cooperation agreements, all the African refugee children, regardless of nationality, may
take these exams.
We began the new curriculum in April 2009. It means more work for our teachers, as they
adapt to teaching the new curriculum. However, they were eager for this change.
