South Sudan a country that has been affected by many series of scuffle civil wars and tribal conflicts among the South Sudanese ethnic groups, and the political and economic devastations made it difficult for local communities continues to live together. The Dec 2013 disagreement between the President Kiir with his deputy Dr. Riek Machar sparked the violence and this led to severely economic ravage and Famine and Due to civil war its prolonging and involvement of many armed factions in the conflict have been making it harder for vulnerable group to scope with the situation anymore. The conflict violence has cost so far deaths of hundreds of thousands and majority of the killed being women, children and elderly people across the country.
The civil war its atrocities has amount to war crime and crime against humanity, raping of young girls as 8 years and women is part of war crime being carry out by all the warring factions and armed forces on the ground in Upper-Nile region, Nevertheless, Illiteracy among the Girl-Child that’s has been an existning problem. Accordance to the South Sudanese social nroms and customary laws, Girls are less importants human within the scoial context of society, althoug, there are underlying issues, lack of education in a model South Sudanese society and other basic needs are often harder to be achieved and inquality is another factor as well. For a Girls Child to get access to basic education is always taken as a luxury by the co munities and it is something that they normally dream of and of course, Sometimes, they are hardly found or affordable for girls to get.
However, The Achut foundation is working hard to change that perception and discrimination against Girls through a call for protection of Girls society through offering some advocacy, Awarness on the risks of discrimination against Girls children in the society and empower and supports to Girls-Child, education through shorterm acadmice such as schoalrship and lonterm planing is to build both High and primary school in the republic of South Sudan to provide a longer solution to illiratce and offer services that are sustanable to the children from the poorests backgrounds whose parents can’t afford paying their school fees.. We shall also alert the South Sudanese Judcials and law makers to including the Girls children proection and freedom of speeach into the National Constituion and who are suffering because of gender (the fact of being a Girl-Child- base abuse). In South Sudan, this is something that is undeniable.
According to the United Nations report on the human rights in South Sudan, published in March 2016, they recorded more than 1,300 cases of rapes just in five months from April to September last year, just only in Unity State alone. Many of these cases of young girls. These girls should have been at school but because of war, they were not. Tens of thousands of people have since been killed, millions displaced, and gender-based attacks are on the rise. According to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, (OHCHR) they indicated that groups allied to the government have allowed raping women in lieu of waging war. Opposition groups and criminal gangs have also been preying on women and girls.
One of the undeniable fact in South Sudan, a teenage girl is far more likely to be married than going to school. Sometimes they are married off as young as 12 years and it’s sometime they may lead to the Girls healthy complications if they become pregnant at the early age and before their bodies are developed. In addition, because of war, economic difficulties, and cultural practices in South Sudan, taking a girl to school is not culturally important as to a boy for many parents. There are always some decisions to be made. To take a girl to school, a family must have to decide whether to buy food or clothing. If a family has enough money, then their son always comes first; which optimistically put the girl at disadvantage. When a girl is at home, they have basically targeted for violence and becomes the victims. As Bishop Martin Mogga, the of Director of Hands of Grace in South Sudan mentioned Children exposed to violence in conflict-affected areas (mostly girls child), face a high risk of being sexually abused.
A high number of child abuse cases have been recorded within homes and communities. Sexual violence is mostly driven by Cultural and Traditional religious practices. Furthermore, sexual violence as a custom thus, many cases go unreported. In this case, Girls are disproportionately affected although cases of abuse among boys are also common. Currently, South Sudan is in this senseless civil war, and economic downfall, Girl Child abuses are normally common especially in the war-torn area. As the UN children's agency in South Sudan pointed out in their report girls as young as seven years old have been abducted, raped or killed in South Sudan. They also added that others have been abducted and recruited as child-soldiers. Our Foundation is among the oldest nonprofits organization formed back in South Sudan, but due to Insecuirty and constantly conflcit at home, we the baord members and the foundation are all in exile and we had decided not to stay idel, but to helps the young girls to be able to get access to shcools and acdamic progress in order for the to prosperity and to realize their potential dream.