South Sudan is located south of Egypt, Libya, sudan, and across the red sea from Saudi Arabia. In a country where men a women are not even close to equal on a social, economic, and political scale, and even when covered head to toe in a burqa women are not even allowed out of the house without their husband. The women of south sudan are oppressed and Illiterate.
The education system in Sudan is not strong because of many reason, but one main reason being the civil war sudan had where southern sudan gained its independence from the north in july of 2011. Since then southern sudan has had trouble building and education system for the young, and educating all the adults who missed out on school during the war. In south sudan nine out of ten women are illiterate simply because of the fact that young women are denied a formal education. The few girls lucky enough to enroll in primary education drop out before they finish primary school. “Girls are expected to stay at home, and help their mothers clean around the house and care for their younger siblings”. It is also estimated that there is only one teacher per 1,000 primary school kids (Laco). 
Since the end of the war south Sudan has been working to improve their education system. Over these years the number of government funded schools has gone from forty five schools to fifty. During this time there was a huge jump in private schools too. The estimated jump was from five to fifty five, and this is one of the problems. Hopefully South Sudan will keep improving their education system so that more kids in Sudan can get a formal education.
Lacko, Wani Tombe. "Education: The Missing Link For Rural Girls’ And Women’S Well Being In South Sudan." Ahfad Journal 28.2 (2011): 15-32. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.
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