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The Education Department

The Catholic Diocese of Rumbek is the largest provider of education in the Greater Lakes and Warrap states. Eighteen diocesan schools, thirty-seven community-owned satellite schools, a teacher training institute, four vocational institutions and a university campus — every one of them planned, run and monitored together with the community it serves.

At a glance

What the department runs

Figures drawn from the department’s own description of its work.

18

Diocesan schools

Comboni primary and secondary schools owned and run by the diocese.

37

Satellite schools

Community-owned and assisted by the diocese; many have no buildings and teach in open-air classrooms.

7

Kindergartens

The first years of schooling, before primary.

4

Vocational institutions

Trades and practical training for young people leaving school.

50,000

Children in the meals programme

Fed in cooperation with the Scottish charitable institution Mary’s Meals.

1

University campus

A campus of the Catholic University of South Sudan, at Rumbek.

The institutions

Where the teaching happens

‘The mission of the Education Department is to nurture the development of the Christian person by means of the development of the spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, emotional and physical gifts of the students entrusted to our care.’

Higher education

Rumbek Campus

Catholic University of South Sudan

The Rumbek Campus

A Catholic institution rooted in the mission and values of the universal Church, formed to build competent, ethical and service-driven leaders.

The campus is academically affiliated with the Catholic University of South Sudan and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Those affiliations support regional and international collaboration, hold the academic standards, and give students a wider academic ecosystem to work within.

Focus areas

  • Education
  • Business Administration
  • Catholic identity and values-based formation
  • Regional and international academic linkages

Teacher training

Mazzolari Teacher Training Institute

Named for the late Bishop Caesar Mazzolari

Where the diocese trains the teachers its own schools depend on.

Alongside the institute the department runs Accelerated Learning Programme centres — for adults who never went to school, and for local unqualified teachers already standing in front of a class.

The network

Schools and satellite schools

Across the Greater Lakes and Warrap states

Eighteen diocesan primary and secondary schools, and thirty-seven community-owned satellite schools the diocese assists — many of them with no buildings, teaching in open-air classrooms.

Seven kindergartens and four vocational institutions stand alongside them. Every programme is planned, carried out and monitored together with the community it serves.

They run from teacher training to women’s empowerment, from Better Parenting classes to tailoring and agriculture, and from Dinka cultural studies to conflict resolution, engineering, computing and water purification.

The department is responsible for

  • The construction and maintenance of classrooms
  • The supply of educational materials
  • The training of teachers
  • Community and governmental liaison
  • The financial management of the educational programmes
  • Meals for 50,000 children, with Mary’s Meals
  • Parent-Teacher Associations throughout the region

In the schools

A term in Rumbek

A primary class
A primary class
A practical lesson
A practical lesson
The school feeding programme
The school feeding programme
Classroom construction
Classroom construction

Letters from Rumbek

A short monthly note from the diocese — what happened in the parishes, in the schools, on the radio. No more than one email a month.

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