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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, walks on a road through a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • Emmanuel Patrick Kango teaches a group of workers on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Kango is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-34.jpg
  • Joseph Obedi shovels dirt as he helps dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-24.jpg
  • Joseph Obedi shovels dirt as he helps dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-25.jpg
  • Grace Janje winnows termites --separating the wings from the edible body -- in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, carries the Eucharist to several elderly villagers following Mass in Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B0...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, greets a donkey on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • Boys roll bicycle wheels through a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • A boy and girl prepare the soil for planting in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Janti John, 4, wakes up in his family's shelter in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, poses with a group of women in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan where she spent more than a decade as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A8...jpg
  • Cecilia Aliminio works on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese, like Aliminio, who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-11.jpg
  • Women work on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-03.jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, worked with Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.<br />
<br />
All the deer in the compound are named Bambi.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B7...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, says goodbye to people in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan where she spent more than a decade as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A8...jpg
  • John Gabriel Tamoata watches as Juliana John and Ester Akele use corn planting devices on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Tamoata is manager of the farm.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-18.jpg
  • John Gabriel Tamoata (right) talks with men working on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Tamoata is manager of the farm.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-05.jpg
  • People celebrate Mass in the Catholic Church in the middle of a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small pig on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • Zena Wilson Michael Timothy teaches a group of workers on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Timothy is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-44.jpg
  • Emmanuel Patrick Kango teaches a group of workers on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Kango is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-33.jpg
  • John Gabriel Tamoata coaches Juliana John and Ester Akele as they use corn planting devices on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Tamoata is manager of the farm.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-17.jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (left), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with Cecilia Aliminio about plant health on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese, like Aliminio, who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-02.jpg
  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, walks with children in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017 as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Murigi, originally from Kenya, also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish, which has been overwhelmed with the displaced families. <br />
<br />
Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that provides training in South Sudan to teachers and health workers, as well as offering pastoral accompaniment to the people of the world's newest nation. Solidarity and Caritas Austria have both supported efforts by the diocese to ensure that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-01.jpg
  • Grace Janje winnows termites --separating the wings from the edible body -- in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • A woman and her son walk through a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, carries the Eucharist to several elderly villagers following Catholic Mass in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B0...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, carries the Eucharist to several elderly villagers following Catholic Mass in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B0...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, inspects sweet potatoes on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A1...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, poses with a group of farmers in Bazungua, a small community near the war-torn village of Riimenze, South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B1...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, brought the Eucharist to Helena Inigoyo following Mass in Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B0...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (right), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, poses in a greenhouse on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Sister Rosa is a consultant on agriculture for the farm.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-43.jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (right), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with John Gabriel Tamoata in a greenhouse on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Tamoata is manager of the farm.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-42.jpg
  • Marilyn Sad, a nurse from India, examines 3-year old Louise in a church-run clinic in Riimenze, South Sudan. The clinic is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides care for thousands of displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Sad is a volunteer with Solidarity.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-28.jpg
  • Henery Taratipio shovels dirt as he helps dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-23.jpg
  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, walks with children in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017 as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Murigi, originally from Kenya, also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish, which has been overwhelmed with the displaced families. <br />
<br />
Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that provides training in South Sudan to teachers and health workers, as well as offering pastoral accompaniment to the people of the world's newest nation. Solidarity and Caritas Austria have both supported efforts by the diocese to ensure that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-10.jpg
  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, sings with children in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017 as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Murigi, originally from Kenya, also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish, which has been overwhelmed with the displaced families. <br />
<br />
Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that provides training in South Sudan to teachers and health workers, as well as offering pastoral accompaniment to the people of the world's newest nation. Solidarity and Caritas Austria have both supported efforts by the diocese to ensure that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-02.jpg
  • Grace Janje winnows termites --separating the wings from the edible body -- in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Two-year old Jennifer Angel enjoys the last of her family's meal in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, poses with a family in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B5...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (right), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with Esta Ekele about the woman's pigs in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A5...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, cooks food for the pigs on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, greets goats on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, feeds Bambi, one of several deer who live in the fenced compound of Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.<br />
<br />
All the deer in the compound are named Bambi.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B3...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with a woman about corn drying on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A1...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, inspects corn drying on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A1...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (left), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with Mary Gaboropai about plant health on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese, like Gaboropai, who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-12.jpg
  • Children carry water in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • A boy walks through a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • A woman threshes peanuts in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (left), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with Agnes Idaa about harvesting coffee on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a baby duck on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • Mary Samuel shovels dirt as she helps dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-39.jpg
  • Emmanuel Patrick Kango teaches a group of workers on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Kango is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-35.jpg
  • Juliana John (left) and Ester Akele use corn planting devices on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-16.jpg
  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, walks with children in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017 as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Murigi, originally from Kenya, also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish, which has been overwhelmed with the displaced families. <br />
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Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that provides training in South Sudan to teachers and health workers, as well as offering pastoral accompaniment to the people of the world's newest nation. Solidarity and Caritas Austria have both supported efforts by the diocese to ensure that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small pig on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Participants in an adult literacy class on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-30.jpg
  • Joseph Obedi shovels dirt as he helps dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
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  • John Gabriel Tamoata watches as Ester Akele (left) and Juliana John use corn planting devices on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Tamoata is manager of the farm.
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  • John Gabriel Tamoata (right) talks with people working on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Tamoata is manager of the farm.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-15.jpg
  • Mary Gaboropai works on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese, like Gaboropai, who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
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  • Brother Christian Mbam (right) talks with a farmer on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. Mbam is a Marist brother from Nigeria who serves as a technical consultant to an agricultural project. He is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a network of Catholic groups providing education and training in the new African nation.<br />
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Two workers on the farm were killed in political violence in 2016, and the village attacked at year end, provoking an exodus of almost 6000 people who fled their villages and took refuges around the church in Riimenze. Mbam's farm became a critical element in keeping them fed, and Solidarity provided food, water and shelter material to the displaced families.
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  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, walks with children in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017 as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Murigi, originally from Kenya, also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish, which has been overwhelmed with the displaced families. <br />
<br />
Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that provides training in South Sudan to teachers and health workers, as well as offering pastoral accompaniment to the people of the world's newest nation. Solidarity and Caritas Austria have both supported efforts by the diocese to ensure that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-12.jpg
  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, walks with children in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017 as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Murigi, originally from Kenya, also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish, which has been overwhelmed with the displaced families. <br />
<br />
Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that provides training in South Sudan to teachers and health workers, as well as offering pastoral accompaniment to the people of the world's newest nation. Solidarity and Caritas Austria have both supported efforts by the diocese to ensure that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-11.jpg
  • A boy and girl prepare the soil for planting in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Grace Janje winnows termites --separating the wings from the edible body -- in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Mary Samuel shovels dirt as she helps dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-38.jpg
  • A boy and girl prepare the soil for planting in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • A woman with tools in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (right), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with Victoria Nakoyogo about corn drying on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, shakes hands with a small child as she meets with a group of farmers in Bazungua, a small community near the war-torn village of Riimenze, South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, poses with a family in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, inspects crops on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, inspects crops on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, participates in Mass in Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B0...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, says goodbye to people in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan where she spent more than a decade as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A8...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, walks through a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a baby duck on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • A man pushes a wheel barrow as he and others help dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-41.jpg
  • Mary Samuel shovels dirt as she helps dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-40.jpg
  • A man participates in an adult literacy class on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-31.jpg
  • Workers dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-22.jpg
  • Workers dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-20.jpg
  • Moses Samuel hoes a field on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-06.jpg
  • Cecilia Aliminio works on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese, like Aliminio, who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-01.jpg
  • Perna Jacob dries cassava in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Janti John, 4, wakes up in his family's shelter in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • A woman dances with other participants in a church-sponsored trauma healing workshop in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (right), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with Victoria Nakoyogo about corn drying on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A1...jpg
  • A man holds a sheep on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-36.jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (right), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, poses in a greenhouse on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. Sister Rosa is a consultant on agriculture for the farm.
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  • Three-year old Louise protests as a blood sample is taken from her finger in a church-run clinic in Riimenze, South Sudan. The clinic is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides care for thousands of displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze. The blood was drawn to test for malaria.
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  • Henery Taratipio shovels dirt as he helps dig a fish pond on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-21.jpg
  • Moses Ganiko plows a field on a church-sponsored farm in Riimenze, South Sudan. The farm is run by Solidarity with South Sudan and provides food for students at a teacher training college, residents of a Congolese refugee camp, and displaced South Sudanese who live in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-04.jpg
  • Boys roll wheels through a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Boys carry water in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
<br />
Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, walks with a young woman in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan where she spent more than a decade as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A8...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, participates in community prayer in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, feeds Bambi, one of several deer who live in the fenced compound of Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.<br />
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All the deer in the compound are named Bambi.
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