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Priest helps displaced woman grind sorghum in South Sudan

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As children watch, Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, helps a displaced woman grind sorghum by hand inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. The task is typically seen as women's work, and Bassano's attempts to master it was greeted with amusement. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano lives in the camp to accompany the people there.

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Paul Jeffrey
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Displaced in Malakal
As children watch, Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, helps a displaced woman grind sorghum by hand inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. The task is typically seen as women's work, and Bassano's attempts to master it was greeted with amusement. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano lives in the camp to accompany the people there.