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  • A woman carries the Bible into a Catholic Mass in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • Nurse Magdalene Ali takes the blood pressure of a patient at night in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. Ali is a graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, a project of Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-C012.jpg
  • Ashara Shela, 10, cares for cattle in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E1090.jpg
  • Nurse Nacima Keni examines a patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Keni is a 2015 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A364.jpg
  • Children walking in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E1091.jpg
  • Ashara Shela, 10, cares for cattle in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0347.jpg
  • Samiyi Alumin participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B188.jpg
  • Nurse Isaac Langurry interacts with a young girl wrestling with blindness in the pediatric ward of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Langurry is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A124.jpg
  • A boy rides a donkey to a weekly market in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0273.jpg
  • A girl carries water in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-C145.jpg
  • A teacher during class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-422.jpg
  • Eight-year old Kocho Said sits in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Said lost his leg to cancer the year before and technicians were waiting for swelling in the stump to go down before finally fitting him with a prosthetic leg.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A484.jpg
  • Father Christopher Konga is priest of the Catholic Church in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. A native of Tanzania, he is an Apostle of Jesus missionary priest.<br />
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The area around Kauda is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0608.jpg
  • Sister Pollicarp Amiyo is a Comboni sister from Uganda who works as a nurse at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • Nurse Zacharia Abrahim attends a young patient in the Catholic Church-sponsored clinic in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-619.jpg
  • A cattlekeeper shapes a small pond he will fill with water pulled from hand-dug wells for his herd in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. In addition to war, people of the isolated region have had to endure difficult farming conditions, exacerbated by climate change, leading in recent years to widespread hunger and malnutrition.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B119.jpg
  • Two girls pump water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-863.jpg
  • A girl reads from the blackboard in class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-578.jpg
  • A woman carries water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-049.jpg
  • Monica Kujiha teaches students in the Catholic Church-run primary school in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. <br />
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Kujiha is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College, a school in Yambio, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B264.jpg
  • Children in class in the Catholic school in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B033.jpg
  • Simon Peter Aede helps 8-year old Kocho Said in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Said lost his leg to cancer the year before and technicians were waiting for swelling in the stump to go down before finally fitting him with a prosthetic leg.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A431.jpg
  • A teacher teaches about nutrition in the Catholic school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0727.jpg
  • Children walk to fetch water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-665.jpg
  • Father Zacharia Osman serves the Eucharist to a woman during a Catholic Mass in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-289.JPG
  • Monica Kujiha teaches students in the Catholic Church-run primary school in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. <br />
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Kujiha is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College, a school in Yambio, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B217.jpg
  • A man and boy try to revive a cow in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. In addition to war, people of the isolated region have had to endure difficult farming conditions, exacerbated by climate change, leading in recent years to widespread hunger and malnutrition.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B057.jpg
  • Nurse Raila Philip Kaciri talks with a patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Kaciri is a 2014 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A469.jpg
  • Nurse Raila Philip Kaciri takes the temperature of a patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Kaciri is a 2014 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A443.jpg
  • A girl pumps water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-675.jpg
  • Teacher Sadia Abdurahman talks during class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-497.jpg
  • A girl holds a sign for the letter "N" during a class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-471.jpg
  • Children in class in the Catholic school in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-370.jpg
  • Children wait outside the full chapel during Catholic Mass in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-220.jpg
  • Young men play football in the moonlight in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0625.jpg
  • Farha Shurab is director of the Catholic primary school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0139.jpg
  • A student laughs in class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-604.jpg
  • A boy pays attention in class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-549.jpg
  • Toma Konyono interviews Lawrence Angatai in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, Sudan. She is a reporter for the Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace. Looking on is Yusef Ali, a patient in the department who lost a leg in combat in 2017.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B317.jpg
  • Awafi Babdu participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community. Here she poses with her daughter Rawda.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B162.jpg
  • Bakhi Shabam walks with her hoe on her head in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B004.jpg
  • A woman walks to fetch water in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church has dug wells and sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E1092.jpg
  • Two girls pump water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-869.jpg
  • Girls sing and play drums during Catholic Mass in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-263.jpg
  • Kubbitta Idriss teaches students in the Catholic Church-run primary school in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. <br />
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Idriss is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College, a school in Yambio, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B303.jpg
  • Dr. Clarke McIntosh, a pediatric pulmonologist from South Carolina in the United States, examines a young patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A062.jpg
  • A weekly market in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0239.jpg
  • Nurse Magdalene Ali cares for patients during the night shift at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Ali is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-C123.jpg
  • Children run in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-884.jpg
  • Boys play with a rehabilitated bicycle in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-116.jpg
  • Eight-year old Kocho Said sits in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Said lost his leg to cancer the year before and technicians were waiting for swelling in the stump to go down before finally fitting him with a prosthetic leg.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A491.jpg
  • A teacher teaches about nutrition in the Catholic school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0733.jpg
  • Girls walk to school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0650.jpg
  • Children dance during Catholic Mass in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0588.jpg
  • A girl carries water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored wells, schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-654.jpg
  • People gather around a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-002.jpg
  • Kubbitta Idriss teaches students in the Catholic Church-run primary school in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. <br />
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Idriss is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College, a school in Yambio, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B266.jpg
  • Kubbitta Idriss teaches students in the Catholic Church-run primary school in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. <br />
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Idriss is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College, a school in Yambio, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B269.jpg
  • Monica Kujiha teaches students in the Catholic Church-run primary school in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. <br />
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Kujiha is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College, a school in Yambio, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B247.jpg
  • Rawda Ismael participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B201.jpg
  • Rashida Ismael leads a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B197.jpg
  • Women proudly display school uniforms they have sewn at the church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B154.jpg
  • A woman carries water in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church has drilled wells and sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B053.jpg
  • Nurse Isaac Langurry interacts with a young girl wrestling with blindness in the pediatric ward of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Langurry is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A109.jpg
  • Masidalia Abduraman teaches a class in the Catholic school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.<br />
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The teacher is a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College, a school in Yambio, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0985.jpg
  • Village health promoters learn about measuring mid upper arm circumference during a training workshop in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The gathering was sponsored by the Catholic Church, which sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-812.jpg
  • Children sing in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-526.jpg
  • A girl listens in class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-435.jpg
  • A woman walks to fetch water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-363.jpg
  • Children sing during Catholic Mass in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-210.jpg
  • A young cattlekeeper tends his herd in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. In addition to war, people of the isolated region have had to endure difficult farming conditions, exacerbated by climate change, leading in recent years to widespread hunger and malnutrition.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B076.jpg
  • Simon Peter Aede helps Ashim Abidim try on a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Abidim, 18, lost his leg in a motorcycle accident.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A396.jpg
  • Nurse Nacima Keni examines a patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Keni is a 2015 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A366.jpg
  • Nurse Nacima Keni examines a patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Keni is a 2015 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A311.jpg
  • Father Daniel Tutu Kuku is a Catholic priest in Haiban, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. He is a native of the Nuba Mountains.<br />
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The area around Kauda is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Ashara Shela, 10, cares for cattle in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E0322.jpg
  • A girl carries water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored wells, schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-650.jpg
  • Children sing in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-513.jpg
  • A girl holds a sign for the letter "D" during a class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-478.jpg
  • A boy holds a sign for the letter "O" during a class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Children sing during Catholic Mass in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • Children in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • A man runs the grinding mill in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The mill is used by families to grind food grains like corn and sorghum.
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  • Two girls carry water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • Toma Konyono interviews Lawrence Angatai in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, Sudan. She is a reporter for the Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace. Looking on is Yusef Ali, a patient in the department who lost a leg in combat in 2017.
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  • Toma Konyono broadcasts from the studio of Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace.
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  • Cattlekeepers pull water from hand-dug wells to water their herd in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. In addition to war, people of the isolated region have had to endure difficult farming conditions, exacerbated by climate change, leading in recent years to widespread hunger and malnutrition.
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  • Nurse Daniel Abram Khiralla prepares an injection in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Khiralla is a 2013 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Nurse Nacima Keni examines a patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Keni is a 2015 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Nurse Atulu George Adam vaccinates a young patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Adam is a 2015 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Nurse Larrpo Kusyo takes a patient's blood pressure in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Kusyo is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Nurse Isaac Langurry interacts with a young girl wrestling with blindness in the pediatric ward of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Langurry is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Ashara Shela, 10, cares for cattle in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • A boy in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Dr. Tom Catena (left), a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, walks with a nurse through the grounds of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital, at which Catena is often the only physician, is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. Catena is popularly referred to as "Doctor Tom". Behind the two is a foxhole, one of many on the hospital grounds that provides limited shelter during bombings.
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  • A woman who had a leg amputated waits outside the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
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  • A woman carries water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Village health promoters learn about proper handwashing techniques during a training workshop in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The gathering was sponsored by the Catholic Church, which sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • A student raises her hand in class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • A girl reads from the blackboard in class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Daniel Comboni Primary School in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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