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  • Dr. Tom Catena (left), a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, awards Lakuwa Lokolo Rama his diploma as a registered nurse, during a ceremony at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.<br />
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Rama studied for the diploma at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, but after graduation returned home to his native Nuba Mountains. <br />
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-C077.jpg
  • Dr. Tom Catena (left), a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, awards Kukani Ibrahim Tutu his diploma as a registered nurse, during a ceremony at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.<br />
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Tutu studied for the diploma at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, but after graduation returned home to his native Nuba Mountains. <br />
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-C074.jpg
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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-B287.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
  • 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-B243.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
  • 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-B309.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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-E0982.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 />
<br />
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-B312.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 />
<br />
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-B296.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-E0988.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-E0969.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-A127.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
  • Nurse Lakuwa Lokolo Rama talks with a mother and child 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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Rama is a 2016 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A129.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
  • 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 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
  • Nurse Nacima Keni cleans a patient's wound 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-A275.jpg
  • Nurse Lakuwa Lokolo Rama talks with a mother and child 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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Rama is a 2016 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A148.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
  • 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.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A472.jpg
  • 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.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A241.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-A348.jpg
  • Nurse Elias Shangero Kunnar trys to examine 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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Kunnar 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-A234.jpg
  • Nurse Nacima Keni cleans a patient's wound 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-A258.jpg
  • Nurse Nacima Keni treats 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-A252.jpg
  • Nurse Larrpo Kusyo 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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Kusyo 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-A195.jpg
  • Nurse Isaac Langurry checks on a patient 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-A082.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
  • 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-A303.jpg
  • Nurse Elias Shangero Kunnar 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.<br />
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Kunnar 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-A233.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-A313.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
  • 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.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A185.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-A322.jpg
  • Nurse Raila Philip Kaciri 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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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-A457.jpg
  • Theresa Anthony, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, sings with her students in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-36.jpg
  • Victor Hume, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, sings a song with his students in the Catholic Church-sponsored Abangite Nursery School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-96.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, laughs as she teaches a class at a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-111.jpg
  • Sister Carmita Cabrera teaches a class at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the College trains teachers from throughout the nation. Cabrera, a Comboni sister, is from Ecuador.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-sttc-30.jpg
  • Sister Carolyn Buhs teaches a class at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the College trains teachers from throughout the nation. Buhs is from the United States and is a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-sttc-54.jpg
  • Students at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the College trains teachers from throughout the nation.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-sttc-47.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
  • Gabe Hurrish (center) walks with students in the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country. Hurrish, a Maryknoll lay missioner from the United States, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-72.jpg
  • Brother Sylvanus-Aniebiet Victor Okon, a Marist brother from Nigeria,teaches a class in the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A754.jpg
  • Rose Mary Meling, who is studying to be a teacher, sings during an assembly in the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A732.jpg
  • Monika Nowicka is a midwife from Poland who is a lay missionary with the Society for African Missions and a clinical tutor for the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-D001.jpg
  • Sister Margaret Scott, a New Zealander and member of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, visits with children in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan, 44 km north of Yambio, where more that 4,000 people took refuge in late 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army attacked their communities inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks by the LRA inside Southern Sudan and in the neighboring DRC and Central African Republic have displaced tens of thousands of people, and many worry the attacks will increase as the government in Khartoum uses the LRA to destabilize Southern Sudan, where people are scheduled to vote on independence in January 2011. Catholic pastoral workers have accompanied the people of this camp from the beginning. Sister Margaret works in the area as a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, a pastoral presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Olina Lina gestures during a video interview about her participation in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Kiden Evaline Julious participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, holds a story he created. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-59.jpg
  • Jacob Enosa, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, explains fractions to his students in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio. The child standing on the chair is the numerator. The child standing on the floor is the denominator.<br />
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The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-50.jpg
  • Joana Ilario, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, teaches a math class in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-40.jpg
  • A nursing student from the Catholic Health Training Institute speaks about malaria prevention to patients waiting at a clinic on the outskirts of Wau, South Sudan. The Institute, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-health-...jpg
  • Gabe Hurrish (center) talks with students in the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country. Hurrish, a Maryknoll lay missioner from the United States, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-sttc-70.jpg
  • Meal time during a retreat at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. The center is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Sister Maria Fe Parcero Divino, a Filipina member of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, is a teacher and administrator at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. Here she checks on a young patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau.<br />
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The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Sister Maria Fe is a member.
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  • Clara Obiru teaches nursing students how to insert a nasal gastric tube in a patient at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • A student gets off the bus that brings her from her clinical practice setting back to the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, and trains nurses and midwives in Africa's newest country.
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  • Midwifery student Hellena Ajak Agok takes the temperature of a premature baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She's a student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Gino Yeke Mbele takes notes during rounds in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She's a midwifery student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Student midwives learn techniques to assure the survival of newborn infants in a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Anita Margaret helps women organize in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan, where she is part of a team of agricultural and pastoral workers sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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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 />
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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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  • Vincentian Father Manny Ginete of the Philippines is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan..
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  • Students pose in the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, where they regularly share dances from their own tribal traditions with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
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The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. In the back row is the school's principal, Brother Christopher Soosai, a De La Salle brother from India.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, blesses Adok Achol, a displaced woman recovering from an assault by her husband, in an Indian Army hospital inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano, also a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
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  • A student hangs his laundry to dry at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Gabe Hurrish (center) talks with students in the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country. Hurrish, a Maryknoll lay missioner from the United States, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Olina Lina participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Everlyn Angaika participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Victor Hume, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, sings a song with his students in the Catholic Church-sponsored Abangite Nursery School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
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  • Victor Hume, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, sings a song with his students in the Catholic Church-sponsored Abangite Nursery School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
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  • Brother Sylvanus-Aniebiet Victor Okon, a Marist brother from Nigeria, dances with students in the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, where they regularly share dances from their own tribal traditions with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
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The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. Brother Sylvanus is an instructor in the school.
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  • Students at the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, hold a booklet with a story each one created. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
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  • Father Jose Pitchai displays tomatoes grown in the garden at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. And it grows some of its own food, a process that Pitchai, a Claretian priest from India, supervises as administrator of the institute.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy advises a student taking a blood pressure reading during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish and a lecturer at the CHTI, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Father Biong Kuol (right) thanks members and volunteers of Solidarity with South Sudan during a ceremony closing a special teacher training course in Agok, a town in Abyei along the contested border between Sudan and South Sudan where more than 100,000 Dinka Ngok fled in 2011 after attacks by northern soldiers and militias on their villages in Abyei. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups, assists the world's newest country with training of teachers, health care professionals and pastoral workers at several locations.
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  • Construction of new facilities at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the College trains teachers from throughout the nation.
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  • Julius Byaruhanga teaches a class at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the College trains teachers from throughout the nation. Byaruhanga, a Ugandan, is a member of the Brothers of Christian Instruction.
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  • Julius Byaruhanga teaches a class at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the College trains teachers from throughout the nation. Byaruhanga, a Ugandan, is a member of the Brothers of Christian Instruction.
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  • Marshalin Fugaren, a midwife student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, wraps up a newborn baby boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Gino Yeke Mbele takes notes during rounds in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She's a midwifery student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Boniface Sene is a midwifery student at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI trains nurses and midwives, and is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Nancy Sebit is a registered nurse who works at the Sika Hadid Primary Health Care Center in Wau, South Sudan. She's a 2021 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan..
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  • Nursing student Lucia Daud James draws a blood sample from a man in the Sika Hadid Primary Health Care Center in Wau, South Sudan. James is a student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Brother Tom Mutuku is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan working in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan.
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  • Nurse James Machok examines Ring Akot, who suffers from malaria, in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Machok is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Sister Raquel Peralta, a Catholic nun from Paraguay, hugs a girl 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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Peralta is a member of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, and works in South Sudan as part of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working in the newly independent country. 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 Raquel Peralta (right), a Catholic nun from Paraguay, helps women pump water from a well 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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Peralta is a member of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, and works in South Sudan as part of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working in the newly independent country. 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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  • Victor Hume, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, sings a song with his students in the Catholic Church-sponsored Abangite Nursery School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
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  • Jacob Enosa, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, sings with his students in the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
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