Despite prejudice and opposition, four girls are training to become the first in southern Sudan, auto mechanics for women
Nura Kolejirub your finger over the ocher dust, embrace the knees of his stomach, and keep looking down sharply - until we found the subject, she has just spoken. It is how she fled her village armed with AK47 Lanya when the soldiers arrived from the north during the civil war in Sudan. Or how his brother removed the train as a child soldier, how he lives, and he chose the victims and shot them, or how his two uncles were among those killed in front of him
not even the question, I'm here to talk about it - why did you decide to train as a mechanic. What really irritates Nura is the dominance of men at work. Last week, Southern Sudan became an independent country after a 22-year war ended in 2005. And in this new country, women like Nura are interested in seeing the changes.
"We have a saying that a hand is not enough to applaud. 'S Right, "he said. "We need men and women, not just one. There is an attitude inherited by my people that women are weaker. I do not know the words and despise the people they say, because I have strong words in my heart tells me I am strong. "
Nura is not an activist, who has never heard the word "feminist." She is a girl of 20 years of Sudan, soft-spoken, the use of oil overalls blue hair. When he graduates next year, with three other classmates, who defied the odds to become the first female mechanics in southern Sudan.
the moment we are at 9, I got dressed, had breakfast and negotiated the rough roads of Juba, de facto capital of South Sudan to go to technical school, a the school, where 470 students (85% are children) are trained to be electricians, masons, carpenters and mechanics. Nura, meanwhile, collected water from a well, sweeping his family home, poured tea for her six younger siblings, revised, and picked up the grips before your two-hour walk to school. After the end of the course in 15 hours, will sell fruit on the market of Juba and bring the product to its tuition £ 41 per year.
In his 16-year partner Pamela Daniel said: "If you live here, everything is a struggle, but if you do not fight, you can also spend their lives sleeping, because nothing will. For you. "
Nurachose this profession, partly because she loves cars, partly because she likes to drive (but it has neither the money nor the facilities to learn), and partly because I wanted a career and technical skills, rather than a traditional university education. One reason, however, beats all others, Nura believes that there are no female role models in southern Sudan and its ambition is to become the first
is a task for a child whose mother is absent (Lanier separated as they fled during the war), whose father is unemployed and whose income trading handles, leaving you with just enough money to pay school fees and buy shoes, but not enough for a workbook. However, Nura and overcome obstacles that prevent the formation of most of his peers.
Then there is the fact that students of only four women engineers in a class of 60 children face ridicule and fierce opposition of the family. ". My neighbors laughed [a] my daughters were blue, they say no mechanics, "says Kiden Natalina 17 years, you want to be a pilot, but" does not depend on men for nothing "- not even the setting of a car.
Pamela, who hopes to train as an aircraft mechanic, spent three days to convince her mother to let her go to technical school. "She thought auto mechanics was dangerous and dirty work for men," says Pamela. Nura, meanwhile, loves his monkey, despite the ridicule they cause. And do not worry that men may find the independence unattractive, or when she marries, her husband, the prohibition of work. "I'll talk to my husband in a courteous manner and be sure to accept my work," he said. "Do not deny it. I am determined. I'll keep talking until they let me."
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