September 13, 2020 -On Sunday, the Sudanese certificate exams were launched, in which 522,689 students write exams in 4,125 centers inside and outside the country.
The examinations kicked off on its first day in the midst of a smooth movement of the students, thanks to “drop me” initiative launched by a group of youth and civil society organizations, last
week, under the slogan “drop me so that I can get to exam center on time” with the participation of individuals and civil society organizations , private vehicles owners, the transportation company
along the army as well as Police and General Intelligence.
Number of examinees in Khartoum state this year is 154,960, and they take the exams in 880 centers in the state’s seven localities.
However, those sitting for the Sudanese certificate exams this year are distributed among 4125 centers, of whom 4111 centers are internal at the level of the various states of Sudan, and 14 centers are external.
The “drop me ” volunteer initiative aims to deport students from public transportation stations on the main lines in the various cities of the state to their examination centers on time. Owners of private vehicles who have responded to the initiative put “stickers” bearing the initiative’s logo on their vehicles to inform students that the vehicle is in their service.
This academic year that began on July 7, 2019 AD, Sudanese students faced several obstacles that led to the suspension of studies, starting with poor security conditions last year during the outbreakof the December revolution, and the outbreak of the Corona pandemic at the beginning of this year, in addition to the challenge of floods, torrents and rains that caused cutting Roads and destroyed nearly 100,000 homes, killing over 106 people.
Darfur24, monitored initiatives of some rickshaw drivers and policecars to transport the examinees students to their examination centers,and those initiatives found the approval of activists in the city of
, and called on the rest of the vehicle owners to help students reach their centers on time for the exams.
Federal government allocated budgets for the exams, which were distributed to the states from early on. The Director General of theMinistry of Education and Guidance in South Darfur, Abdel-Al Saleh, said that the state received a month before the start of the exams, the budgets for transferring students and some food supplies to support the students “flour and sugar,” but he did not mention thequantities.