In South Sudan, girls face many barriers (障碍) to education. Some girls cannot1 to attend school because their parents cannot meet the costs, and there is also2 housework for girls, which takes up their time. Therefore, their parents don't 3their daughters to go to school.
Another problem is that girls can be married off early, often4force. We don't have the5to choose the person we wish to marry. Our parents6us to the one who pays the highest price in cows. Now more people are going hungry and marrying off girls to get cows to7. This happened to me. My parents married me off when I was studying, and I had to8school.
Luckily, my brother helped me come to ASEW, which9to help girls finish school.
I saw that the headteacher was a woman and that10me. ASEW was a school without punishment and school fees (学费). It was a day school, not boarding school (寄宿学校)，that gave me11to help at home. The curriculum (课程) was12so we could complete our education more quickly. It was also13, protected from outsiders. It is extremely dangerous for women and girls14there is fighting all around Rumbek.
At ASEW, I studied hard and passed with a high score of 77 percent. I wish other girls could have15like me, to go back to school.
