MAROL ACADEMY

aka The Marol Academy   |   Culver City, CA   |  www.marolacademysouthsudan.org

Mission

We are committed to starting and sustaining rural schools offering an accessible and safe environment for educating girls, as well as boys, in the newest country, Republic of South Sudan. Our board of directors agrees that to build a nation, both girls and boys must be equally educated. Assigning pupils to classes based on performance through testing is a significant goal.

Three important emphases of the school, along with academic achievement are: 1) HIV/AIDS and public health awareness, 2) peaceable conflict resolution, 3) ecological and sustainable environments training.

Due to civil war for more than two decades, when the school opened in 2008 in rural Warrap State, there had been no schools accessible for boys or girls; sporadic studies conducted by relief organizations in pre-independent southern Sudan and in refugee camps, found mass illiteracy, a tragic decline from advances made before the war. Statistics on female literacy was the lowest, less than two percent. A female was more likely to die giving birth than to be able to read.

When the Marol Primary School opened in May 2008, 330 youth enrolled. This in a rural village of only 200 residents, with no electrification, no clean water, no roads in or out. There now is a bore hole and hand pump providing clean ground water, thanks to UNICEF's donation of the handpump, CESVI, an Italian engineering firm's donation of an engineer, and The Marol Academy providing a grant covering the costs of labor. Today, the school has 650 pupils, with those completing Grade 8 achieving top marks in the State on their Exit Exams, indicating the earnest endeavors of pupils and high commitment of Marol Primary School teachers.

Ruling year info

2008

Executive Director and Founder

Jok Madut Jok Phd

Main address

9942 Culver Blvd. #1134

Culver City, CA 90232 USA

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EIN

26-1343221

NTEE code info

International Development, Relief Services (Q30)

Primary/Elementary Schools (B24)

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The Marol Academy Primary School

Established in May 2008, the Marol Academy Primary School emphasizes the education of girls in a safe and accessible environment. When the school opened, 330 young persons showed up to enroll. Many had walked far distances to attend school, boys being allowed by their families to walk farther from home than were girls. Once all the girls who wished to enroll were listed on the roster, boys were able to enroll. In the first school year, 60% of pupils were girls. It was not possible to turn away boys, many of which had been former child soldiers and were desperate to go to school. The policy has been continued to first enroll all girls who show up to the school, and when space permits, boys can enroll.
There had been hope that the RSS government would begin to take on financial responsibility (e.g. paying teacher salaries) for the school, but with the violent upheaval in the country, resulting from the power struggle between President Salva Kiir and his vice-President Riek Machar, that hope has been dashed for now, even though the Ministry of Education has mandated a longer school year from 7 to 9 months. The Marol Academy now struggles to raise the $26,400/year needed for 22 teacher's salaries. Previously, with fewer teachers and a shorter school year, and with help from international friends in Germany and the U.K., three classroom blocks--with classrooms in each--were built. Also, latrines for boys, girls and teachers were constructed. A library, which is the pride of the school and village stands as a beacon of hope and learning. Most of our revenues have come from individual donors. Our executive director, Prof. Jok Madut Jok, was educated before war between north and south Sudan destroyed or closed all schools in the south. He is now an American citizen, teaching at a university in Los Angeles, and travels to Marol to oversee the quality of education at the school a minimum of twice a year. Because his community enabled him to get an education, secondary in south Sudan, and post-secondary in Egypt and the U.S. (his doctorate was done at U.C.L.A.), he is committed to passing forward the opportunity of education and achievement he was given.

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