Video about the Marial Bai Secondary School
Please enjoy this video from Valentino’s new school in Marial Bai, Southern Sudan. For more videos from Marial Bai, visit our YouTube channel.
The footage was filmed by Valentino Achak Deng and Greg Larson and edited by Brian McGinn.
The Marial Bai Secondary School is the first fully-functional secondary school in the entire region, where after twenty years of war, students have had no other opportunities to continue their education. Valentino designed the school and construction was completed in spring 2009. Classes started in early May. Thousands of students from near and far applied to enroll, and a pilot class of about one hundred students was admitted. To lead the school, a faculty of highly qualified Sudanese teachers was recruited from across Southern Sudan. Later this year they will be joined by teachers from other countries in Eastern Africa and teams of volunteer teachers from America, Canada, and Europe. In January 2009, construction started on a girls’ dormitory to help increase girls’ enrollment at the school.
