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  • Mirenge Bulabyababene, displaced by war in the eastern Congo, builds a hut in a displaced persons camp set up on a lava flow in the village of Nzulu. A quarter of a million people have been newly displaced by fighting in the eastern Congo, where some 5.4 million have died since 1998 from war-related violence, hunger and disease.
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  • Angel Kunde, 20, who was displaced with her child by war in the eastern Congo, builds a hut in a displaced persons camp set up on a lava flow in the village of Nzulu. Action by Churches Together (ACT International) has provided safe drinking water, latrines, and other support to families here, as well as to many residents of the host village. A quarter of a million people have been newly displaced by fighting in the eastern Congo, where some 5.4 million have died since 1998 from war-related violence, hunger and disease.
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  • Mirenge Bulabyababene, displaced by war in the eastern Congo, builds a hut in a displaced persons camp set up on a lava flow in the village of Nzulu. A quarter of a million people have been newly displaced by fighting in the eastern Congo, where some 5.4 million have died since 1998 from war-related violence, hunger and disease.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-03.jpg
  • Mirenge Bulabyababene, displaced by war in the eastern Congo, builds a hut in a displaced persons camp set up on a lava flow in the village of Nzulu. Action by Churches Together (ACT International) has provided safe drinking water, latrines, and other support to families here, as well as to many residents of the host village. A quarter of a million people have been newly displaced by fighting in the eastern Congo, where some 5.4 million have died since 1998 from war-related violence, hunger and disease.
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  • A man in Dundube Kadambo, in northern Malawi, builds a hut with help from his two sons.
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  • Fatima Hassan Mohammed, an 80-year old Somali woman who fled drought and war in her country, rests outside her makeshift hut in the bula baqti - the place of the carcasses - section of the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kanya. She arrived five months ago, and some other family members who arrived in the last week helped her make this hut, an improved model over what she had before. Tens of thousands of newly arrived Somalis have swelled the population of what was already the world's largest refugee camp.
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  • Fatima Hassan Mohammed, an 80-year old Somali woman who fled drought and war in her country, rests outside her makeshift hut in the bula baqti - the place of the carcasses - section of the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kanya. She arrived five months ago, and some other family members who arrived in the last week helped her make this hut, an improved model over what she had before. Tens of thousands of newly arrived Somalis have swelled the population of what was already the world's largest refugee camp.
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  • A Toposa tribeswoman smokes a pipe in front of a traditional tukul or thatched hut. Kuron, South Sudan.
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  • Adhieu Deng Ngewei and three of her children pose in front of their new hut on April 12, 2017, in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. They and most other families here recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village while simultaneously coping with a drought which has devastated their cattle herds.<br />
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During the period they were displaced, this family took refuge on an island of the White Nile River, living on the edge of starvation for almost three years.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security. The ACT Alliance funded the construction of this family's new hut.
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  • A formerly displaced woman lays out the structure for the roof of a thatched hut in her home village. Two decades of war in northern Uganda have left almost two million people displaced, though progress in peace talks in 2006 initiated a small movement to return to home villages, including this woman, for whom building her hut in relative peace is an exciting event.
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  • A Toposa woman sits outside her Tukul, or hut, Kuron, South Sudan.
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  • Children stand in front of the wall of a burned hut 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 to the region since northern combatants withdrew in 2012, yet their life is precarious. In Leu, the Catholic Church rehabilitated a clinic and drilled a 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 girl stands in front of the wall of a burned hut 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 to the region since northern combatants withdrew in 2012, yet their life is precarious. In Leu, the Catholic Church rehabilitated a clinic and drilled a 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-161.jpg
  • A girl stands in front of the wall of a burned hut 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 to the region since northern combatants withdrew in 2012, yet their life is precarious. In Leu, the Catholic Church rehabilitated a clinic and drilled a 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-159.jpg
  • A girl sweeps the dirt in front of her family's makeshift hut 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.
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  • Back home after years of brutal war, James Okot puts a roof on a newly constructed hut in the village of Amuca in northern Uganda. A small number of families have returned home as peace talks continue.
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  • Enjoying relative peace for the first time in years, a boy lays out the frameowrk for the thatched roof of a hut. A peace process that began in 2006 has brought hope to the two million people in northern Uganda who were displaced by the long war with the Lord's Resistance Army. In the village of Amuca, families have returned and are harvesting crops, building homes, and enjoying the first peace they've had for more than 20 years.
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  • James Okot puts a roof on a newly constructed hut in the village of Amuca. A peace process that began in 2006 has brought hope to the two million people in northern Uganda who were displaced by the long war with the Lord's Resistance Army. In the village of Amuca, families have returned and are harvesting crops, building homes, and enjoying the first peace they've had for more than 20 years.
    uganda-2007-jeffrey-IDPs-22.jpg
  • Men living in a transition camp for internally displaced persons construct the roof of a thatched hut. Two decades of war in northern Uganda have left almost two million people displaced, though progress in peace talks in 2006 initiated a small movement to return to home villages. Under a government-supervised return program, most families are required to first move to one of these "satellite camps" before returning home.
    uganda-2007-jeffrey-IDPs-19.jpg
  • A boy stands in front of the wall of a burned hut 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 to the region since northern combatants withdrew in 2012, yet their life is precarious. In Leu, the Catholic Church rehabilitated a clinic and drilled a 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-160.jpg
  • A woman displaced by internal conflict in northern Uganda has returned to her village of origin, where she has built a new hut and checks her hair in a mirror. The two-decade long conflict began winding down with peace talks in 2006, and in 2007 a few families left camps for the internally displaced and returned to their original villages.
    uganda-2007-jeffrey-IDPs-08.jpg
  • A man displaced by fighting in eastern Congo builds a hut in a displaced persons camp in the village of Sasha, where Action by Churches Together is providing a food security program and other support. A quarter of a million people have been newly displaced by fighting in the eastern Congo, where some 5.4 million have died since 1998 from war-related violence, hunger and disease..
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  • Magdalena Julius holds a child as she tends a cooking fire in front of her hut in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • John Lago puts a thatched roof on his hut in Pisak, a small village in Central Equatoria State in Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • John Lago puts a thatched roof on his hut in Pisak, a small village in Central Equatoria State in Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • Peresi Nyoka brings home grass she has cut to use on the thatched roof of her hut in Yei, Southern Sudan. Ms. Nyoka is a United Methodist. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • Hellesa Gune cuts grass to use on the thatched roof of her hut in Yei, Southern Sudan. Ms. Nyoka is a United Methodist. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • Peresi Nyoka cuts grass to use on the thatched roof of her hut in Yei, Southern Sudan. Ms. Nyoka is a United Methodist. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
    south-sudan-2009-jeffrey-yei-130.jpg
  • Peresi Nyoka cuts grass to use on the thatched roof of her hut in Yei, Southern Sudan. Ms. Nyoka is a United Methodist. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
    south-sudan-2009-jeffrey-yei-131.jpg
  • Addar Kon and her newborn daughter in their hut in the 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, including new wells. Kon's birth was assisted by a midwife trained by Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A woman and her children inside their hut in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-refugees-ma...jpg
  • A woman and her children inside their hut in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-refugees-ma...jpg
  • A man works on the structure of what will become the thatched roof of his hut 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-359.jpg
  • Men work on the structure of what will become the thatched roof of their hut 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-358.jpg
  • A woman fastens sticks together to build a hut 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.
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  • Nyazela Kapitolice builds a hut for her family in a camp in rebel-held territory in the eastern Congo. Families displaced by fighting between rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese military took refuge in this camp they established in the shadow of a United Nations base in the village of Kiwanja. According to aid workers and human rights groups, rebel soldiers executed some 150 people here in a 24-hour period in early November. The killings took place half a mile from the UN base, yet the 120 UN peacekeepers, part of the largest UN peacekeeping contingent in the world, did not take any action to stop the violence. ..
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  • Inside her hut, Fatna cooks a meal for her family while cradling her smallest child in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • Magdalena Julius holds a child as she tends a cooking fire in front of her hut in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • A Toposa woman looks out of her hut in Karukochom, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <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, centered in Kuron and including this village, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
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  • John Lago puts a thatched roof on his hut in Pisak, a small village in Central Equatoria State in Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
    south-sudan-2009-jeffrey-yei-161.jpg
  • Peresi Nyoka brings home grass she has cut to use on the thatched roof of her hut in Yei, Southern Sudan. Ms. Nyoka is a United Methodist. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
    south-sudan-2009-jeffrey-yei-134.jpg
  • Addar Kon and her newborn daughter in their hut in the 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, including new wells. Kon's birth was assisted by a midwife trained by Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-warrap31900...JPG
  • A man settles a post in the ground as he constructs a hut 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. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • A woman and her children inside their hut in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-refugees-ma...jpg
  • A family rises from sleeping outside their hut 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-371.jpg
  • A man uses mud to construct the wall of his family's hut 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-266.jpg
  • Men use mud to construct the wall of their hut 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-262.jpg
  • Men use mud to construct the wall of their hut 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-261.jpg
  • A child stands in front of the wall of a burned hut 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 to the region since northern combatants withdrew in 2012, yet their life is precarious. In Leu, the Catholic Church rehabilitated a clinic and drilled a 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-163.jpg
  • A Dinka woman digs holes to bury sticks that will form a wall in her hut 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.
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  • A Dinka woman digs holes to bury sticks that will form a wall in her hut 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.
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  • A girl runs in the rain outside her hut 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.
    uganda-2017-jeffrey-rhino-camp-066.JPG
  • A Somali woman who fled drought and war at home cooks over a fire in a hastily-constructed hut on the outskirts of the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Tens of thousands of newly arrived Somalis have swelled the population of what was already the world's largest refugee camp.
    kenya-2011-jeffrey-dadaab-014.jpg
  • A woman plants sorghum in a small field beside her hut in the Habile Camp for internally displaced Chadians outside the village of Koukou Angarana. Some 25,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A woman prepares the ground beside her hut for planting in the Habile Camp for internally displaced Chadians outside the village of Koukou Angarana. Some 25,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A Toposa woman looks out of her hut in Karukochom, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <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, centered in Kuron and including this village, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
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  • A woman kneads grain for cooking inside her hut in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-refugees-ma...jpg
  • A girl looks out the door of her family's hut in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-refugees-ma...jpg
  • Haredo Nunow Noor just arrived in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya, and builds a temporary hut as she awaits longer-term housing. Tens of thousands of refugees have fled drought-stricken Somalia in recent weeks, swelling what was already the world's largest refugee settlement.
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  • Fatna cooks a meal in her hut in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where humanitarian agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Girls wash dishes 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.
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  • When South Sudan's civil war broke out in Juba in December 2013, Peter Frisus fled from the fighting to Mundri, where he has relatives. He has survived there thanks to the hospitality of his relatives, along with food and agricultural tools provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. His uncle let him use some land to farm peanuts and corn. Here he carries thatch for roofing huts.
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  • Crematina Mikowma, 16, combs her hair 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.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • A once displaced boy is now back home in northern Uganda. Families who've been displaced by internal conflict for years have returned to Omeon, their village of origin, and are rebuilding their huts, cultivating their fields, and renewing their bond with the land. These families began returning home in April 2007.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Internally displaced people live in small houses or huts, shared by up to eight households under a single roof. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • A woman winnows grain in a transition camp, or so called "satellite camp", where Ugandans displaced by two decades of war take one step closer to returning home. They have left the huge displacement camps where they've been sheltered for years and moved into small clusters of huts closer to their original villages, but still receive support from the government and international aid organizations. A peace process that began in 2006 has brought hope to almost two million people displaced by the war that they can soon return all the way home.
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: Houses in the Palorinya refugee settlement in the West Nile area of northern Uganda. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A blue cross marks a tree in the Palorinya refugee settlement in the West Nile area of northern Uganda. The cross indicates that cutting this tree is strictly by permission from the LWF. Such markings are made in an effort to avoid deforestation in the settlement, while also preserving trees that carry cultural as well as medicinal value for the local refugee and host communities. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Refugees walk through the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A blue cross marks a tree in the Palorinya refugee settlement in the West Nile area of northern Uganda. The cross indicates that cutting this tree is strictly by permission from the LWF. Such markings are made in an effort to avoid deforestation in the settlement, while also preserving trees that carry cultural as well as medicinal value for the local refugee and host communities. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The sun sets over houses in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda on 1 April. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The sun sets over houses in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda on 1 April. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Refugee housing in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Refugee housing in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: A goat grazes outside refugee's houses in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Houses in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Refugees walk through the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • A girl tends a smoky fire in her home in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • A girl tends a smoky fire in her home in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • Juliana John shows edible leaves she has harvested in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She is part of a women's group, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, where she has learned how to produce better quality, more sustainable food.
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  • Aliric Chol poses with her children after she gets them dressed and ready to leave for class at the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
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  • A Toposa woman prepares food in Karukochom, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <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, centered in Kuron and including this village, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
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  • The climate crisis is making life difficult for James Kuony Malual. He's been a successful farmer in Akobo, South Sudan, growing crops to feed his six wives and send 18 of his children to school in Uganda and Ethiopia. But he says he can no longer depend on the weather. The rains don't come when they used to, and when they do come, they cause flooding worse than he's even seen. The last three years have been totally unpredictable, and he has lost more of his crops than he has been able to harvest. <br />
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DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped him diversify his crops, planting more vegetables that he can sell in the market in town, but it's a tough time to be a farmer in his part of the world.<br />
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DanChurchAid is providing support for livelihood activities and food security in Akobo in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Rachel Nyoka, a woman in the village of Pisak, in Central Equatoria State in Southern Sudan. Nyoka is a United Methodist. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • Rachel Nyoka, a woman in the village of Pisak, in Central Equatoria State in Southern Sudan. Nyoka is a United Methodist.. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • Rosa Lonyako, 10, sweeps around her family's home early in the morning in Pisak, a small village in Central Equatoria State in Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • Two children in the Southern Sudan village of Ligitolo. Families here are rebuilding their lives after returning from refuge in Uganda in 2006 following the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the north and south. NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • A woman threshes peanuts in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
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  • As her family prepares to plant corn, a girl turns up the soil in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
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  • Preparing to plant corn, Jos Mitchell digs the ground around her family's shelter in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
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  • Preparing to plant corn, Jos Mitchell digs the ground around her family's shelter in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
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  • Andiru Gordon, 3, lost his father to the fighting that broke out in his home town of Bor, South Sudan, in December 2013, and along with his mother and five siblings moved to a camp for internally displaced people and then eventually to live with relatives in the town of Mundri.
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  • Andiru Gordon rolls a bicycle tire. The three-year old boy lost his father to the fighting that broke out in his home town of Bor, South Sudan, in December 2013, and along with his mother and five siblings moved to a camp for internally displaced people and then eventually to live with relatives in the town of Mundri.
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  • Joy Aliwaya starts a fire in the morning in Mundri, South Sudan. Displaced by fighting in Bor in December 2013, when her husband was killed, she took her six children to a camp for internally displaced persons for several weeks, then came to Mundri where she had a sister. Yet her sister died shortly after she arrived, and Aliwaya has struggled to survive since. He sells firewood and earns enough to send one of her children to school. Finn Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided materials for a distribution of food and non-food items of which she was a beneficiary. The ACT Alliance is providing a variety of services to internally displaced families throughout the country.
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  • Elizabeth Frisus makes a basket at her home in Mundri, South Sudan. When South Sudan's civil war broke out in 2013, Mundri became a place of refuge for people fleeing the fighting. Her grandson Peter Frisus was one of those who fled Juba for Mundri, where his relatives welcomed him and gave him some land to farm. With seeds and tools provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, he has been able to grow some food, though not enough to be self-sufficient.
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  • Rebecca Achol Atem walks her 5-year old daughter Saloma Nyandeng to an early childhood development center on April 13, 2017, in Panyagor, a town in South Sudan's Jonglei State. <br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in the 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.
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