Diocesan Youth Coordinator Urges Government to Provide Land for Recreational Centre
By Baraka John
The Diocesan youth coordinator in the Catholic Diocese of Tambura Yambio appealed to the State government to provide piece of land for the youth in the Diocese to enable them establish a recreational centre or theatre.
Mr. William Tambua while addressing faithful and government officials in the evening of Monday 10th April 2023 during a peace concert organized by the CDTY youth coordination office, said there is an argent need for the youth in the diocese to establish recreational centre to act as a therapy for trauma healing among the community.
Mr. Tambua added that once the centre is established, youth in the diocese will create weekends programs where people will gather to watch different sorts of entertainments to wash away the trauma in their minds.
Responding to the request, the first deputy mayor for Yambio municipality, Peter Mukanga, expressed the municipality’s willingness to allocate a piece of land for the youth in the diocese for them to establish the centre.
Since the independence, South Sudanese have experienced different forms of violence which has left them traumatized up to date, with no theatres where plays are performed as a means to rebuild broken hearts and heal minds of the citizens.
But according to the CDTY youth coordinator, establishing such a centre is critical towards the realization of peace in the minds and positive thinking. Mr. Tambua said that if the centre established, it will be for all the youth regardless of their denominations.
Thousands of faithful gathered at St. Mary primary school in the evening of Monday to attend a peace concert that involved varieties of performances, including dances, dramas, citing of poems by school children.