Community Education Resource Centre, Nimule

Country: Sudan
Address: Nimule, Eastern Equatoria State
Telephone: +256 753 183 091
Fax:
Email: asienzom@yahoo.com/cerc.work.nimule@gmail.com
www:
Contact person: Asienzo Margret Rapheal, field officer

Theme: Building Local Democracy

Community Education Resource Centre (CERC) is a non-governmental and non-profit making community based initiative undertaken in early 2000 after a needs assessment conducted by the community and students from Denmark.

The centre was established with the vision of achieving a well-informed, progressive and independent community. Its mission is to enhance community access to information.

Objectives

• Provide long term learning skills that helps the community in their day to day activities
  Conduct civic and voter education
• Assist communities attain adequate utilization and sustainable development which protect the environment and encourage community self-reliance
• Advocate for girl child education through dissemination of information, skills training and sensitization of the community
• Unify efforts of the stakeholders in contributing towards the development of educational activities and human development
• Provide and facilitate researchers, surveys, assessments and technical and professional trainings
• Establish, implement and operate income generating activities that strengthen the financial base of the resource centre

Activities

• Civic and voter education through innovative methods
• Library and internet services
• Book box lending scheme
• Provision of training hall
• Training workshops on thematic issues of peace building and governance

In the beginning, the centre was supported by Operation a Day's Work and
MS Uganda in partnership with NSEA. Today, CERC is an independent civil society organisation.