{"id":6157,"date":"2025-11-21T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:12:08","slug":"three-schools-win-national-debate-competitions-marking-world-childrens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=6157","title":{"rendered":"Three Schools Win National Debate Competitions Marking World Children\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Emmanuel Garjiek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Three schools have been crowned winners of this year\u2019s World Children\u2019s Day inter-school debate competitions, a national event aimed at strengthening critical thinking, communication skills, empathy, and civic responsibility among young learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debates were organized by the Ministry of General Education and Instruction in partnership with UNICEF, bringing together 18 schools nationwide\u2014four nursery, six primary, and eight secondary\u2014from government, community, and private institutions.In the nursery category, Juod Nursery School emerged victorious after defeating Munuki East Nursery School in the finals. St. Lawrence Primary School secured the top position in the primary category, overcoming Gudele East Primary School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the secondary level, St. Daniel Comboni Secondary School claimed first place ahead of Juba Day Secondary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s competition tasked students with debating key issues affecting children across the country, including conflict, climate shocks, poverty, gender inequality, and their impact on access to education. The event also aimed to raise awareness in communities with high numbers of out-of-school children.South Sudan continues to face significant challenges in ensuring children\u2019s access to quality education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> An estimated 2.8 million children\u2014more than 60 percent of school-aged learners\u2014remain out of school due to conflict, displacement, poverty, and the country\u2019s weakened education infrastructure.With out-of-school children now exceeding those enrolled, the country is off track to meet Sustainable Devchildren. Southinfrastructure. Withenrollment4 (SDG4) on quality and inclusive education. Gross enrolment rates remain low across pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels, underscoring the urgent need for greater investment and targeted interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" data-id=\"6159\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0004.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0004-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0004-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" data-id=\"6160\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0003.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0003-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" data-id=\"6161\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0002.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0002-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251121-WA0002-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Garjiek Three schools have been crowned winners of this year\u2019s World Children\u2019s Day inter-school debate competitions, a national event aimed at strengthening critical thinking, communication skills, empathy, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}