🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Happy St Andrews Day to all who are celebrating! Happy memories of celebrations past in Juba. UK in South Sudan 🇬🇧🇸🇸 Ceilidh Committee have a great trade with local staff teaching us many of their traditional dances in exchange for ceilidh lessons - much laughter involved in both!

This afternoon, Troika 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇺🇸 Ambassadors discussed the importance of uniting and investing in efforts to tackle violence against women and girls. To listen to their conversation, tune into Radio Miraya on Monday 4 December at 5pm! #16Days16WROs #EndGBV #SSOX

Good news story about how UK in South Sudan 🇬🇧🇸🇸 through GESS is supporting a brilliant young woman to realize her right to #education. Proud that 🇬🇧 partnership with 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴 is helping to ensure ALL children in #SouthSudan have the chance of a brighter future. #SSOT

So proud of the UK in South Sudan 🇬🇧🇸🇸 Ceilidh Committee for creating more brilliant memories in Juba over the weekend! Thanks to all who celebrated #StAndrewsDay with us & threw themselves into learning to ceilidh dance with such enthusiasm. Maybe the whisky & IRN-BRU helped a little?!

Yesterday I organized UK in South Sudan 🇬🇧🇸🇸’s inaugural ‘Crafts for Community’ Market, inviting four brilliant South Sudanese NGOs to share their stories and give colleagues the chance to buy their beautiful handmade products. Lots raised for great causes & many happy customers! #SSOT

Not at #COP28UAE's education and climate day in person today? You can still tune into this great panel discussion 👇including @MinistrySsd's Hon. Min. Acuil speaking about how the #ClimateCrisis is already impacting children in #SouthSudan & the action urgently needed. #SSoT

If you want to change the world, educate girls. Through partnerships with USAID, Aga Khan Foundation & IRC - International Rescue Committee, 🇬🇧 is investing in community-led solutions to the climate crisis, which disrupts the education of millions of girls and children a year.

High levels of early marriage and pregnancy in South Sudan impact girls' health, education, development, and ultimately their futures. As 2023's #16DaysOfActivism against #GBV comes to an end, I reflected on how UK in South Sudan 🇬🇧🇸🇸 is working for change👇 #SSoT

Growing up in the UK’s cold winters means it’s sometimes difficult to believe Christmas is nearly here as the sun beams down in Juba, South Sudan! Very grateful for the beautiful 9 lessons & carols service at All Saints Cathedral last week to help get in the festive mood! #SSOT

📢 Great opportunity for someone to join the British Embassy in Juba as a local staff member 📢 Please do share with anyone in your networks who might be a good fit. Apply through the link below.

Happy #InternationalDayofEducation! GESS has been speaking to 🇸🇸 teachers & learners in about what education means to them.📢,The 2024 school year starts on 5th Feb & we urge all parents & guardians to ensure children are sent to school as soon as they open.

To mark #InternationalDayofEducation HMA Guy Warrington & @EmilyGrayMBEspoke to Radio Miraya on the importance of 12 yrs quality education for all children & need for 🇸🇸 government to step up to ensure schools have resources they need to run & teachers are paid fairly & on time👇

Today Education Adviser Emily Gray MBE, USAID South Sudan & World Bank spoke to Eye Radio about how donors are supporting education in 🇸🇸& need for South Sudan Government to urgently increase budget execution from $8 per child. Listen again ⬇️ fb.watch/pMBHSYooHN/

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and 🇸🇸 share a culture of stories- passing history and wisdom down generations. Whilst living in Juba I’ve been learning how to tell them. This special event takes place on my last Friday in Juba as my posting comes to an end. Join us, spread the word, all welcome! #SSOX

2 years in Juba 🇸🇸, 4 ceilidhs thrown by 4 different configurations of the brilliant UK in South Sudan 🇬🇧🇸🇸 Ceilidh Crew. I had no idea how far we would go when I started it in 2022, but it has been one of the best things about my time here. Very proud of and grateful for this lot!

Yesterday was my last Education Donor Group Meeting in South Sudan - a big milestone after two years of working closely together through several generations of members. Thank you for being brilliant colleagues and friends!

Join us this afternoon at 4:00pm for stories and music from South Sudan and Scotland Scenius Hub. We look forward to sharing with you! location: maps.app.goo.gl/nCwpcoQH8aY4by…

🚀 Exciting Opportunity! 🚀 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is recruiting for multiple Education Adviser roles. Open to British citizens, positions in UK and overseas Candidate engagement calls April 16th & 24th 📅 Apply now to make a global impact on education tinyurl.com/ybv6dybh Pls share.