Who's Involved

Ibba Girls Boarding School (IGBS) has the active support of the local community, including the village elders, tribal chiefs, the churches (Catholic and Episcopal) and the government (at county, state and national levels). Two formal bodies, constituted under South Sudan law - the IGBS Trustees and the Board of Governors – are responsible for the running of the school.

Friends of Ibba Girls School (FIGS) has been established in the UK and registered as a charitable trust and company limited by guarantee, to guard the vision, the land and the funding for the school.

Governance

Friends of Ibba Girls School (FIGS) is a registered charity in the UK and exists to raise funds, guard the vision and provide support for Ibba Girls' Boarding School, so it can grow and flourish.

Ibba Girls Boarding School (IGBS) is registered as a community school to maintain its distinctiveness from church, state and private schools. It teaches the new South Sudan curriculum alongside co-curricular subjects such as drama, personal social and health education, debating and sport.

The founding Constitution of the school was approved and signed at a public meeting in Ibba in June 2014, attended by over 500 people from the local community, county, state and national governments, the Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches, and non-governmental institutions (NGOs).

FIGS Ambassadors

Golda Abbe

Pamela Lomoro

Andy Serkis (Photo credit: Laurie Sparham)

FIGS Ambassadors help to promote Ibba Girls Boarding School and its important and transformational contribution to the lives of girls in a country which needs it more than any other.

FIGS Vice-Presidents

Emeritus Professor John Benington

Lord Michael Bichard

Baroness Estelle Morris

FIGS Trustees

Chris Trott (Chair)

Professor Jean Hartley (Vice-Chair)

Sarah Harding (Treasurer)

Kristine Atong Malok (As company secretary)

Eleanor Caine

Justin Gordon-Muortat

Dame Rosalind Marsden

Julia Sanders

John Forde

The UK charity Friends of Ibba Girls School is governed by a hard-working body of UK Trustees which ensures that the funds raised are well-managed and allocated to these main purposes:

to build and develop Ibba Girls Boarding School (IGBS) in South Sudan
to protect and promote the founding vision and values for the school
to ensure that the school is well-led and managed
to cultivate good quality teaching and learning, in line with the school's declared ethos.

The UK Trustees of Friends of Ibba Girls School work in close partnership with the South Sudan Trustees and Board of Governors for the school.

IGBS Trustees

Hon. Grace Apollo (Chair)

Hon. Elisama Charles Bobowa (Commissioner for Ibba County)

Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro (RC Bishop of Tombura and Nzara)

Chris Trott (Chair of FIGS Trustees)

The Trustees of IGBS have been formed under South Sudan law, with the following 3 main responsibilities:

To protect and promote the founding vision and values of IGBS
To own and protect the land and buildings for the school
To ensure that well functioning management structures are in place, including a School Management Committee for the primary section of the school and a Board of Governors for secondary.