The following is taken from a recent Scripture Union Global Communication. Referred to in this article as “a life skills program,” this is the VOICE Africa program and curriculum. Enjoy and praise God!
Global News Update – September, 2024
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School program changes lives
In South Sudan a life skills program run in schools is having a profound effect on the students.
National Director of Scripture Union South Sudan, Manase Woja Alfred, said that Scripture Union volunteers go into schools to share about life values from a biblical perspective.
Manase said there was one boy who was quite aggressive, detached and always sitting at the back of the class, totally uninterested and disengaged. He also always referred to his own mother as, “that woman”.
Over the course of the six-week program, this boy started to listen. Week by week he moved further up the classroom, until finally he was sitting in the front row. When the course was completed, his behaviour had totally changed. He had become agreeable, polite, respectful and was volunteering to do jobs around the house without being asked.
Manase said: “The mother was so shocked by the radical improvement in her son’s behaviour that she made an appointment with the school principal and asked what he had done to make the huge turn around in her son’s behaviour. The principal explained it was not the school but the SU program.”
“The mother said she wanted to meet this SU volunteer and when she did, she fell at the volunteer’s feet and said, ‘thank you, thank you, thank you’. The SU volunteer said, ‘Please stand up, it was not me, it was the Lord’s doing, all the Glory belongs to him’.”
