STEP UP: Recent Episodes
Tearfund South Sudan
Inspiring Young Minds in South Sudan to reach their full potential.
STEP UP is a podcast series produced by Tearfund South Sudan to engage talented young women and men in South Sudan to use creative thinking methods to discuss existing challenges affecting the youth.
How do you express yourself, e.g. what you feel or an idea you want to get across? Do you always speak your mind, do you just write it down or do you simply draw or sing?
Well, there are very many ways to express one’s feelings, and writing these feelings or ideas down is just one of them. Writing can be a source of endless inspiration and enlightenment and a kind of art that empowers, nurtures, and transforms. It can also help open up conversations that are otherwise difficult to start and in recent years, youth poetry has particularly blown up and is quickly becoming popular among young people in South Sudan who use their creativity for good.
So this episode features two young South Sudanese who are passionate about writing POEMS to get their messages across to other people.
Priscilla Ayuen – a student at the University of Juba and Grace Mundua – a student at the Catholic University of South Sudan are both celebrated young writers in South Sudan. In this conversation, the young ladies talked about their most popular poems and their motivation.
In recent years, the world has witnessed rapid and widespread adoption of digital technology that has fundamentally transformed various aspects of society, including communication, trade, education, entertainment, and more.
So in this episode, we look at the current global digital revolution and discuss how young people in South Sudan can meaningfully leverage such opportunities and engage in capital-enhancing activities, enrich their knowledge, learn new skills, and create pathways to employment.
This edition features the story of Rachel Hakim - a young South Sudanese digital entrepreneur who has started small, but dreams of creating a digital empire using technology and other digital innovations.
Episode 2 of Step Up discusses Youth and Peacebuilding in South Sudan and features Benson Binya - A young Peacebuilding Champion working with various youth groups in the city to foster peaceful co-existence within his community.
He also shares various ways in which young people can become peace ambassadors in their respective communities and contribute towards the peace-building process in the country (South Sudan)
Host: Rosemary Wilfred - Media and Communication Manager - Tearfund South Sudan
Host - Rosemary Wilfred, Media & Communication Manager - Tearfund South Sudan
Guest - Grace Aguil Garang, Executive Director -Youth and Society Africa & member of the international advisory for the Kingdom of Netherlands.
Episode 1 provides a general understanding of the youth situation in South Sudan, their contribution towards nation-building and some challenges faced by the young people.