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  • People get water from a well in Riimenze, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A0...jpg
  • 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.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-04.jpg
  • When South Sudan's civil war spread to Malakal in late 2013, Alice Sura escaped from the fighting by taking refuge inside the United Nations base there with eight children--two of her own and six belonging to her relatives. Two days later, she was evacuated to Juba, and then came to Mundri, where she was born. She and the eight children have survived thanks to the hospitality of her relatives and food provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. Here she pumps water from a well to carry to her temporary house.
    south-sudan-2014-jeffrey-mundri-041.jpg
  • A woman carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-335.jpg
  • A woman carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-264.jpg
  • A girl pumps water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-257.jpg
  • Child on her back, a woman carries water from a community well to her home in Chibamu Jere, Malawi. Women in the village get support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.
    malawi-2017-jeffrey-6273.JPG
  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A309.jpg
  • People and animals gather at a well near Talodi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E1081.jpg
  • A boy washes his face at a well in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The well was constructed by the Loreto schools based in the village. The boy is a student at the Loreto Primary School.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-F001.JPG
  • A girl carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-339.jpg
  • Girls carry home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-338.jpg
  • A displaced girl waits to fill her water containers at a well in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-176.jpg
  • Mektie Nkuna carries water from a well to her home in Chibamu Jere, Malawi. Pregnant with her second child, Nkuna and other women in the village get support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.
    malawi-2017-jeffrey-6088.JPG
  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A313.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 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
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, helps a girl pump water from a well in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • A woman balances two buckets full of water on her head at a well in Bunj, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E456.JPG
  • Feba Awanyna, 5, keeps watch on a row of jerry cans before dawn in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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Because water pumps in the camp are solar-powered, water can only be obtained during daylight hours. Refugees will therefore line up their jerry cans overnight in order to be among the first to get water in the morning.<br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
    uganda-2017-jeffrey-rhino-camp-188.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-679.jpg
  • A girl carries water home from a well in Riimenze, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-X2.JPG
  • A girl gets water from a well in Riimenze, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A0...jpg
  • Sister Raquel Peralta (center), 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 />
<br />
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.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-05.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-03.jpg
  • A woman carries water from a well in the internally displaced persons camp in Turalei, South Sudan. Families started arriving here shortly after fighting broke out in December 2013, and new families continued to arrive in March 2014 as fighting continued. Many are living in the open and under trees. The ACT Alliance is providing the displaced families and the host communities affected by their presence with a variety of support, including new wells.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-warrap31981...JPG
  • With help from her 8-year old daughter Atap, Atouc Dut carries home water from a well in Malek Miir, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and left people hungry. A local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, drilled the well and has provided food vouchers to hungry families, including Dut and her husband and four children. With food vouchers instead of bulk food, beneficiaries were able to buy the exact food they wanted, while at the same time supporting local traders and markets.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-B1731.JPG
  • Workers carry pipe as they drill a well on April 7, 2017, in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, they set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remain camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. <br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling the well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. <br />
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The ACT Alliance is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-A1266.JPG
  • Women carry water to their homes at sunrise on April 12, 2017, in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. Most of the villagers recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013. <br />
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The women obtained water from a well drilled by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, which is helping villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E0377.JPG
  • A woman carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-334.jpg
  • Feba Awanyna, 5, keeps watch on a row of jerry cans before dawn in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
<br />
Because water pumps in the camp are solar-powered, water can only be obtained during daylight hours. Refugees will therefore line up their jerry cans overnight in order to be among the first to get water in the morning.<br />
<br />
The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
    uganda-2017-jeffrey-rhino-camp-180.JPG
  • Misuzi Tembo carries water to her home in Kayeleka Banda, Malawi. Pregnant with her first child, she receives support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Tembo's husband has a job in South Africa and sends home money to support her.
    malawi-2017-jeffrey-5053.JPG
  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A312.jpg
  • 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.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-023.jpg
  • Children get water from a well in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The well was constructed by the Loreto schools based in the village.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-B182.jpg
  • Achil Ariik Mayuen carries water through a camp for internally displaced people in Manangui, South Sudan. She lived there long before the camp began to take shape in December 2013, when fighting broke out in several parts of South Sudan. Because the ACT Alliance and other agencies are providing the displaced families as well as the host community affected by their presence with a variety of support, she now has clean water close at hand and a school for her children.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-warrap32017...JPG
  • People push to fill their water containers at a well in the internally displaced persons camp in Turalei, South Sudan. Families started arriving here shortly after fighting broke out in December 2013, and new families continued to arrive in March 2014 as fighting continued. Many are living in the open and under trees. The ACT Alliance is providing the displaced families and the host communities affected by their presence with a variety of support, including new wells.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-warrap31978...JPG
  • A woman carries water from a well in the internally displaced persons camp in Turalei, South Sudan. Families started arriving here shortly after fighting broke out in December 2013, and new families continued to arrive in March 2014 as fighting continued. Many are living in the open and under trees. The ACT Alliance is providing the displaced families and the host communities affected by their presence with a variety of support, including new wells.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-warrap31977...JPG
  • With help from her 8-year old daughter Atap, Atouc Dut carries home water from a well in Malek Miir, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and left people hungry. A local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, drilled the well and has provided food vouchers to hungry families, including Dut and her husband and four children. With food vouchers instead of bulk food, beneficiaries were able to buy the exact food they wanted, while at the same time supporting local traders and markets.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-B1815.JPG
  • Mary Kuol carries water home from a well dug by the ACT Alliance in Yang Kuel, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and forced people to eat wild leaves to survive. Kuol is seven months pregnant.<br />
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The well was drilled in 2016 by a local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The organization has also distributed food vouchers to hungry families in the region.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-B1400.JPG
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, helps a girl pump water from a well in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • A woman struggles to stand as she balances two buckets full of water on her head at a well in Bunj, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E442.JPG
  • A girl carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-365.jpg
  • A woman carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-353.jpg
  • A woman carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-333.jpg
  • A woman carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-332.jpg
  • A girl carries home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-260.jpg
  • A girl pumps water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-255.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries water home in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-047.jpg
  • Frances Mtonga carries water from a community well to her home in Chibamu Jere, Malawi. Pregnant for the third time, Mtonga and other women in the village get support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Her husband works in South Africa and sends home money to support her and her children.
    malawi-2017-jeffrey-6293.JPG
  • Mektie Nkuna carries water from a well to her home in Chibamu Jere, Malawi. Pregnant with her second child, Nkuna and other women in the village get support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.
    malawi-2017-jeffrey-6093.JPG
  • Misuzi Tembo carries water to her home in Kayeleka Banda, Malawi. Pregnant with her first child, she receives support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Tembo's husband has a job in South Africa and sends home money to support her.
    malawi-2017-jeffrey-5114.JPG
  • Misuzi Tembo carries water to her home in Kayeleka Banda, Malawi. Pregnant with her first child, she receives support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Tembo's husband has a job in South Africa and sends home money to support her.
    malawi-2017-jeffrey-5090.JPG
  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A317.jpg
  • A group of neighbors in the Congo dig a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A216.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
  • 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-034.jpg
  • A boy drinks from a well in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The well was constructed by the Loreto schools based in the village. The boy is a student at the Loreto Primary School.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-F003.jpg
  • A woman pumps water from a well alongside the street in the Anumaar Koil Padithurai neighborhood in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-075.jpg
  • Majdi Abduharaman (right) and Abraham Thom repair the hand pump on a well in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to enter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city. Abduharaman is an emergency specialist for Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, and Thom is a technician for the government's Department of Rural Water.
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  • Achil Ariik Mayuen lives in Manangui, South Sudan, where a camp for internally displaced families took shape after fighting broke out in the country in December 2013. Because the ACT Alliance and other agencies are providing the displaced families as well as the host community affected by their presence with a variety of support, she now has clean water close at hand and a school for her children.
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  • A girl carries water from a well in the internally displaced persons camp in Turalei, South Sudan. Families started arriving here shortly after fighting broke out in December 2013, and new families continued to arrive in March 2014 as fighting continued. Many are living in the open and under trees. The ACT Alliance is providing the displaced families and the host communities affected by their presence with a variety of support, including new wells.
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  • With help from her 8-year old daughter Atap, Atouc Dut pumps water from a well in Malek Miir, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and left people hungry. A local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, drilled the well and has provided food vouchers to hungry families, including Dut and her husband and four children. With food vouchers instead of bulk food, beneficiaries were able to buy the exact food they wanted, while at the same time supporting local traders and markets.
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  • Women carry water to their homes on April 12, 2017, in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. Most of the villagers recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013.<br />
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The women obtained water from a well drilled by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, which is helping villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, helps a girl pump water from a well in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • A woman pumps water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
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  • Girls carry home water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
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  • Workers drill for water as part of a Catholic Church-sponsored project to bring life back to Marail Achak, a village in the disputed Abyei region on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. The families living here fled south in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. 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. In Marail Achak, where residents have begun to return despite the absence of U.N. troop patrols or other international support, the church paid for this well to be drilled so returnees could have safe drinking water for themselves and their animals. The wells they had used in years past were destroyed by the northerners before they withdrew.
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  • A girl pumps water from a well provided by the Catholic Church in Leu, a village in the contested Abyei region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. The village was looted and burned in 2011 when soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan swept through the area, chasing out more than 100,000 Dinka Ngok residents. A few thousand families have returned since northern combatants withdrew in 2012, yet their life is precarious. In Leu, the church rehabilitated a clinic and drilled this well. For political and logistical reasons, the Catholic Church is one of the few organizations willing to openly accompany the people of Abyei during these uncertain times.
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  • A Dinka woman carries water in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
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  • A Dinka woman carries water in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
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  • People line up jerry cans before dawn in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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Because water pumps in the camp are solar-powered, water can only be obtained during daylight hours. Refugees will therefore line up their jerry cans overnight in order to be among the first to get water in the morning.<br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
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  • A girl lines up jerry cans before dawn in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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Because water pumps in the camp are solar-powered, water can only be obtained during daylight hours. Refugees will therefore line up their jerry cans overnight in order to be among the first to get water in the morning.<br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
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  • Misuzi Tembo (left) carries water to her home in Kayeleka Banda, Malawi, accompanied by her sisters Chimwemwe Kumwenda and Rhoda Nyoni. Pregnant with her first child, Tembo receives support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Tembo's husband has a job in South Africa and sends home money to support her.
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  • Misuzi Tembo carries water to her home in Kayeleka Banda, Malawi. Pregnant with her first child, she receives support from the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Tembo's husband has a job in South Africa and sends home money to support her.
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  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • 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.
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  • A woman 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. 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • A girl carries water home from a well in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • A woman pumps water from a well alongside the street in the Anumaar Koil Padithurai neighborhood in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
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  • A girl pumps water with her mother in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. This well is one of dozens in the community which have been rehabilitated by Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A woman carries water in an internally displaced persons camp in Manangui, South Sudan. Families started arriving here shortly after fighting broke out in December 2013, and new families continued to arrive in March 2014 as fighting continued. Many are living in the open and under trees. The ACT Alliance is providing the displaced families and the host communities affected by their presence with a variety of support.
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  • Regina Abuk carries water home from a well dug by the ACT Alliance in Yang Kuel, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and forced people to eat wild leaves to survive.<br />
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The well was drilled in 2016 by a local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The organization has also distributed food vouchers to hungry families in the region.
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  • A girl pumps water from a well constructed by Caritas in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
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  • A Dinka woman carries water in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
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  • A Dinka woman carries water in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
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  • A girl lines up jerry cans before dawn in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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Because water pumps in the camp are solar-powered, water can only be obtained during daylight hours. Refugees will therefore line up their jerry cans overnight in order to be among the first to get water in the morning.<br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
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  • A boy keeps watch on a row of jerry cans before dawn in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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Because water pumps in the camp are solar-powered, water can only be obtained during daylight hours. Refugees will therefore line up their jerry cans overnight in order to be among the first to get water in the morning.<br />
<br />
The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
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  • A woman and her child at a community well in Chibamu Jere, Malawi, where the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian has helped to keep mothers and their children healthy.
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  • A man digs a well amidst United Nations-provided tents which refugees and workers for the ACT Alliance pitched for newly arrived refugee families in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Tens of thousands of refugees have fled drought-stricken Somalia in recent weeks, swelling what was already the world's largest refugee settlement. The Lutheran World Federation--a member of the ACT Alliance--manages the camp, and is working with UN agencies in helping receive and house the new refugees.
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  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • A group of neighbors in the Congo build a well together with assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • 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
  • A woman 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.
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