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  • Chalk dust adorns the face of six-year old Anthony Bahkindo, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Chalk dust adorns the face of a boy in the kindergarten of the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Gloria Minisere, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Coleta Ninegu, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...JPG
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Gloria Minisere, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Bigimi, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...JPG
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Bigimi, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • Six-year old Isaac Siapai shows the numbers he has written on a chalk tablet in his kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Seven-year old Joanna Nayamu writes numbers on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • A girl writes numbers on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Four-year old Gloria Minaida proudly shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • Four-year old Gloria Minaida proudly shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...JPG
  • Six-year old Juliana Mboriidie shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • Six-year old Mary Saburu shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...JPG
  • Five-year old Peter Umeregu shows the numbers he has written on a chalk tablet in his kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Seven-year old Joanna Nayamu shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Six-year old Madelia Vutuyo shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Six-year old Madelia Vutuyo shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • A girl writes numbers on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • A girl writes numbers on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Six-year old Madelia Vutuyo writes numbers on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Six-year old Madelia Vutuyo writes numbers on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Six-year old Mary Saburu shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...JPG
  • Six-year old Madelia Vutuyo shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Seven-year old Joanna Nayamu shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Five-year old Peter Umeregu shows the numbers he has written on a chalk tablet in his kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • Chamsi Djuma, a survivor of gender-based violence, writes on a chalkboard during her October 11, 2019, graduation from a basic literacy program in Goma, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where rape is epidemic. The woman participates in the Tushinde Ujeuri Project, which is supported by IMA World Health. It offers survivors of sexual and gender-based violence a new start on life, including helping them learn to read and write.
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  • Madeline Vutuyo holds her slate up in Sister Josephine's class, Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • A girl in a wheelchair writes on the blackboard at the Jairos Jiri School in Harare, Zimbabwe.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-28...jpg
  • A boy gets help with math in the Opportunity School, a center for children with developmental and intellectual disabilities in Chennai, India. The school is run by Methodist deaconesses, and supported by United Methodist Women.
    india-2019-jeffrey-chennai-school-16...jpg
  • A girl writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. The school is directed by Sister Josephine Murigi, a Kenya member of Our Lady of the Missions who also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. 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.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-riimenze-39.jpg
  • A woman writes on a blackboard in an English class in the Arrupe Learning Center, run by Jesuit Refugee Service in Bunj, South Sudan. Participants come from four refugee camps in Maban County that together shelter more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, along with local residents from the host community.<br />
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Misean Cara provides support for the work of Jesuit Refugee Service in Maban.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E399.JPG
  • Children draw on chalkboard tablets in a primary school in Bunj, South Sudan, sponsored by Jesuit Relief Service. The community is host to more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and JRS provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E316.JPG
  • Children draw on chalkboard tablets in a primary school in Bunj, South Sudan, sponsored by Jesuit Relief Service. The community is host to more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and JRS, with support from Misean Cara, provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E007.JPG
  • Alcius Miguelita, 12, and other children in Port-au-Prince participate in an art program sponsored by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization whose work with survivors of the January 12 earthquake is supported by the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-325.jpg
  • A girl points to numbers on the chalkboard during class in a school in a settlement of Syrian refugees in Minyara, a village in the Akkar district of northern Lebanon. Lebanon hosts some 1.5 million refugees from Syria, yet allows no large camps to be established. So refugees have moved into poor neighborhoods or established small informal settlements in border areas. International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides a variety of assistance to families in this settlement, including support for education.
    lebanon-2015-jeffrey-refugees-067.jpg
  • A boy writes on the blackboard during a class in the Bahadon Second Cycle School in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali which was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. The jihadis first banned all schools, then under pressure from the community, allowed them to open but with separate classes for boys and girls.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-119.jpg
  • A student in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-D012.JPG
  • A teacher writes on the blackboard in the secondary school in Matara, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The school is sponsored by the Holy Trinity Peace Village in nearby Kuron. <br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Bringing youth from different tribes together in a common learning environment is seen as an important tool in building relationships that will contribute to peace.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-A045.jpg
  • A child draws on the sidewalk at the CROP Hunger Walk, held October 27, 2013, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-crop-walk-hunger-03.jpg
  • A girl in a wheelchair writes on the blackboard at the Jairos Jiri School in Harare, Zimbabwe.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-28...jpg
  • A boy writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. The school is directed by Sister Josephine Murigi, a Kenya member of Our Lady of the Missions who also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. 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.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-riimenze-44.jpg
  • A girl writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. The school is directed by Sister Josephine Murigi, a Kenya member of Our Lady of the Missions who also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. 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.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-riimenze-41.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
  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa supervises a teacher's work in a classroom in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-75.jpg
  • A student points to letters on the blackboard in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K254.JPG
  • A student points to letters on the blackboard in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K252.JPG
  • A teacher points to letters on the blackboard in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K236.JPG
  • A teacher writes on the blackboard in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K230.JPG
  • A girl writes the alphabet on a chalkboard at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-26.jpg
  • A woman writes on a blackboard in an English class in the Arrupe Learning Center, run by Jesuit Refugee Service in Bunj, South Sudan. Participants come from four refugee camps in Maban County that together shelter more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, along with local residents from the host community.<br />
<br />
Misean Cara provides support for the work of Jesuit Refugee Service in Maban.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E270.JPG
  • A woman stands by the blackboard in an English class in the Arrupe Learning Center, run by Jesuit Refugee Service in Bunj, South Sudan. Participants come from four refugee camps in Maban County that together shelter more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, along with local residents from the host community.<br />
<br />
Misean Cara provides support for the work of Jesuit Refugee Service in Maban.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E264.JPG
  • A student writes on the blackboard in an Alternative Learning System class, sponsored by the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI) in the Tondo neighborhood of Manila, Philippines. <br />
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KKFI is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-kkfi-185.JPG
  • Holding her baby, a woman writes on the blackboard as she participates in an adult literacy class in the village of Magsaysay, in New Bataan in the Compostela Valley on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines.
    philippines-2012-jeffrey-literacy-11.jpg
  • In the capital of the Philippines, a boy who lives in the Manila North Cemetery writes on a chalkboard in class at the Santa Mesa Heights United Methodist Church. Hundreds of poor families live in the cemetery, inside and between the tombs and mausoleums of the city's wealthy. They are often discriminated against, and many of their children don't go to school because they're too hungry to study and they're often called "vampires" by their classmates. With support from United Methodist Women, KKFI provides classroom education and meals to kids from the cemetery at this church.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-cemetery001.JPG
  • Children in Port-au-Prince participate in an art program sponsored by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization whose work with survivors of the January 12 earthquake is supported by the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-329.jpg
  • Angelene Pierre, 13,  and other children in Port-au-Prince participate in an art program sponsored by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization whose work with survivors of the January 12 earthquake is supported by the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-328.jpg
  • A child writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Church of the American Ceylon Mission in Kudathanai, Sri Lanka.
    sri-lanka-2018-jeffrey-1022-072.jpg
  • Hiyam Moussa helps children study in a school in the Sabra refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches. Most of the school's 148 students are Syrian refugees, but roughly one-third are Palestinian refugees and a few are poor children from the neighborhood. Lebanon hosts some 1.5 million refugees from Syria, and yet the government prohibits the establishment of large refugee camps, thus pushing many refugee families to search for housing in existing Palestinian refugee camps. This school is supported by the ACT Alliance.
    lebanon-2015-jeffrey-refugees-009.jpg
  • A girl writes on the chalkboard during class in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria. International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
    jordan-2012-jeffrey-065.jpg
  • A girl writes on the chalkboard during class in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria. International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
    jordan-2012-jeffrey-062.jpg
  • A girl writes on the chalkboard during class in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria. International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
    jordan-2012-jeffrey-061.jpg
  • A girl writes on the blackboard during a class in the Bahadon Second Cycle School in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali which was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. The jihadis first banned all schools, then under pressure from the community, allowed them to open but with separate classes for boys and girls.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-124.jpg
  • A girl writes on the blackboard during a class in the Bahadon Second Cycle School in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali which was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. The jihadis first banned all schools, then under pressure from the community, allowed them to open but with separate classes for boys and girls.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-123.jpg
  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, wipes tablets clean for students to use in learning to write numbers. The nun supervises the kindergarten program in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • A student writes on the blackboard in the secondary school in Matara, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The school is sponsored by the Holy Trinity Peace Village in nearby Kuron. <br />
<br />
The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Bringing youth from different tribes together in a common learning environment is seen as an important tool in building relationships that will contribute to peace.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-A044.jpg
  • A boy gets help with math in the Opportunity School, a center for children with developmental and intellectual disabilities in Chennai, India. The school is run by Methodist deaconesses, and supported by United Methodist Women.
    india-2019-jeffrey-chennai-school-28...jpg
  • A boy gets help with math in the Opportunity School, a center for children with developmental and intellectual disabilities in Chennai, India. The school is run by Methodist deaconesses, and supported by United Methodist Women.
    india-2019-jeffrey-chennai-school-15...jpg
  • A girl studies after school in Moinabad, India, where she lives in the Methodist student hostel.
    india-2018-jeffrey-deaconess-678.jpg
  • A girl studies after school in Moinabad, India, where she lives in the Methodist student hostel.
    india-2018-jeffrey-deaconess-677.jpg
  • A girl writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. The school is directed by Sister Josephine Murigi, a Kenya member of Our Lady of the Missions who also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. 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.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-riimenze-45.jpg
  • A boy writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. The school is directed by Sister Josephine Murigi, a Kenya member of Our Lady of the Missions who also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. 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.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-riimenze-43.jpg
  • A girl writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. The school is directed by Sister Josephine Murigi, a Kenya member of Our Lady of the Missions who also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. 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.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-riimenze-42.jpg
  • A girl writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. The school is directed by Sister Josephine Murigi, a Kenya member of Our Lady of the Missions who also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. 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.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-riimenze-40.jpg
  • A boy writes on the blackboard in a preschool run by Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. The school is directed by Sister Josephine Murigi, a Kenya member of Our Lady of the Missions who also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. 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.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-riimenze-21.jpg
  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa supervises a teacher's work in a classroom in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-77.jpg
  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa supervises a teacher's work in a classroom in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-73.jpg
  • A primary school class in Panyagor, a town in South Sudan's Jonglei State, meets in a temporary shelter. <br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in the troubled region, which is torn by both war and drought, to educate their children, with a special focus on insuring that girls enter and remain in school. LWF is building new permanent classrooms as schools expand their services.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-F217.JPG
  • A boy writes on the chalkboard in a class at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. While focused on educating girls from throughout the war-torn country, the school, run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland, also educates children from nearby communities.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-H196.jpg
  • A student points to letters on the blackboard in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K249.JPG
  • A student points to letters on the blackboard in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K251.JPG
  • A teacher points to letters on the blackboard in the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The Loreto Sisters began a secondary school for girls in 2008, with students from throughout the country, but soon after added a primary in response to local community demands.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K232.JPG
  • A teacher checks the work of a student at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-27.jpg
  • A girl writes the alphabet on a chalkboard at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-25.jpg
  • A girl writes the alphabet on a chalkboard--with help from a classmate--at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-24.jpg
  • A girl writes the alphabet on a chalkboard at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-22.jpg
  • Children draw on chalkboard tablets in a primary school in Bunj, South Sudan, sponsored by Jesuit Relief Service. The community is host to more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and JRS provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-E321.JPG
  • Children draw on chalkboard tablets in a primary school in Bunj, South Sudan, sponsored by Jesuit Relief Service. The community is host to more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and JRS provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
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  • A teacher distibutes chalkboard tablets to students in a primary school in Bunj, South Sudan, sponsored by Jesuit Relief Service. The community is host to more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and JRS provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
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  • A girl draws on a chalkboard tablet in a primary school in Bunj, South Sudan, sponsored by Jesuit Relief Service. The community is host to more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and JRS, with support from Misean Cara, provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
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  • Basamat Alnoor Jakolo Aldabi teaches school in the Kaya Refugee Camp in Maban County, South Sudan. The camp shelters thousands of refugees, including this teacher, from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and Jesuit Refugee Service, with support from Misean Cara, provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
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  • A student writes on the blackboard in an Alternative Learning System class, sponsored by the Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation (KKFI) in the Tondo neighborhood of Manila, Philippines. <br />
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KKFI is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • A woman writes joyfully on the blackboard as she participates in an adult literacy class in the village of Magsaysay, in New Bataan in the Compostela Valley on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines.
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  • A woman writes on the blackboard as she participates in an adult literacy class in the village of Magsaysay, in New Bataan in the Compostela Valley on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines.
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  • A woman writes on the blackboard as she participates in an adult literacy class in the village of Magsaysay, in New Bataan in the Compostela Valley on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines.
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  • A woman writes on the blackboard as she participates in an adult literacy class in the village of Magsaysay, in New Bataan in the Compostela Valley on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines.
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  • Holding her baby, a woman writes on the blackboard as she participates in an adult literacy class in the village of Magsaysay, in New Bataan in the Compostela Valley on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines.
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  • Holding her baby, a woman participates in an adult literacy class in the village of Magsaysay, in New Bataan in the Compostela Valley on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines.
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  • Children in Port-au-Prince participate in an art program sponsored by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization whose work with survivors of the January 12 earthquake is supported by the ACT Alliance.
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  • Angelene Pierre, 13,  and other children in Port-au-Prince participate in an art program sponsored by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization whose work with survivors of the January 12 earthquake is supported by the ACT Alliance.
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