FAQ's for the Basic Education Learning Centers South Sudan Project:

1. How will you handle the variety of languages, and what about curriculum?
   • The government of South Sudan actually prefers that we work in English.
   • We'll use the curriculum already approved by the Ministry of Education for South Sudan.


2. How much will it cost?
   • Total project is approximately USD $1,580,000.
   • Of that, the African churches that send their people to be teacher trainers will contribute USD $180,000.
   • The remaining need is USD $1.4 million.


3. Isn't that a lot of money? Yes, until you break it down in one of the following ways:
   • 50 teacher trainer/evangelists at about $10,000 per year , or
   • 25 centers at about $20,000 per year per center, or
   • 750 student teachers at about $600 per year


4. What does that cover?
   • Expenses of building and equipping the training center where Sudanese teacher will be trained
   • Each trainer's travel (annual leave) and other expenses not covered by their sending churches
   • Logistical support and supplies for the trainer teams
   • Administrative costs at the mission level


5. How can we be involved?
   • Churches can embrace a training center. You may be able to establish a relationship with the African church that sends a teacher trainer to that center.
   • Individuals or churches can sponsor one teacher trainer at $10,000 per year for 3 years. Or ten individuals (for example, teachers) could join in an informal consortium to sponsor one trainer, each contributing $1,000 per year.
   • Schools or classrooms can conduct fund raisers to sponsor one Sudanese student teacher at $600 per year.
   • Most important, we seek prayer partners. Please send your e-mail address to rebuildsudan@simsudan.org if you're willing to receive and pray for prayer requests as they come up, possibly one request each week.