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Catholic sisters work among those trapped in camp on United Nations base in South Sudan capital

Sister Ranjitha Maria Soosai, a member of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, leads a group of children in singing inside a camp for internally displaced families inside a United Nations base in Juba, South Sudan. The camp holds more than 20,000 Nuer who took refuge there in December 2013 after a political dispute within the country's ruling party quickly fractured the young nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Ten DMI sisters from India work in the camp, providing counseling and psycho-social support for women and children, teaching children in makeshift schools, and providing food to hungry families.

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$Sister Ranjitha Maria Soosai, a member of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, leads a group of children in singing inside a camp for internally displaced families inside a United Nations base in Juba, South Sudan. The camp holds more than 20,000 Nuer who took refuge there in December 2013 after a political dispute within the country's ruling party quickly fractured the young nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Ten DMI sisters from India work in the camp, providing counseling and psycho-social support for women and children, teaching children in makeshift schools, and providing food to hungry families.$

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Catholic sisters work among those trapped in camp on United Nations base in South Sudan capital