{"id":61055,"date":"2020-02-07T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61055"},"modified":"2020-02-07T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:54:03","slug":"south-sudan-national-campaign-helps-over-700000-children-enroll-back-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61055","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: National campaign helps over 700,000 children enroll back in school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/southsudan\/sites\/unicef.org.southsudan\/files\/styles\/press_release_feature\/public\/20191010%20SchoolsJuba%20199.jpg?itok=J5MdgEg8\" alt=\"A boy sitting behind his desk smiling\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JUBA, Feb 7 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; South Sudanese government and multilateral partners on Thursday launched a national campaign that will see more than 700,000 children enroll back in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement from the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) issued in Juba, said the campaign will help 709,002 children enroll for early childhood education, primary or alternative education programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The campaign is part of the national Back to Learning initiative, providing learning opportunities to children currently out of school,&#8221; said UNICEF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An estimated of 2.2 million children were pushed out of school due to more than five years of conflict that devastated the economy and left thousands dead and millions displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNICEF said that while access to free quality education is a basic child right, the campaign is focused on reaching the most vulnerable, the ones who are less likely to access education services without support. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA, Feb 7 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; South Sudanese government and multilateral partners on Thursday launched a national campaign that will see more than 700,000 children enroll back in school. A statement from the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) issued in Juba, said the campaign will help 709,002 children enroll for early childhood education, primary or alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}