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  • Two premature infants in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Waiting Room. A mother cares for her infant child in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care room of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Waiting Room. A mother places her infant back in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care room of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • A mother touches her infant in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care room of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, visits newborn twins in an Indian Army hospital inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano, also a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
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  • Waiting Room. Mothers in the neonatal intensive care room of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Waiting Room. Mothers in the neonatal intensive care room of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Waiting Room. Mothers in the neonatal intensive care room of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Waiting Room. Mothers in the neonatal intensive care room of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Two newly born twins rest in a hospital run by the Indian Army inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, and renewed fighting in 2015 drove an additional 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, visits newborn twins in an Indian Army hospital inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano, also a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
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  • The height and weight of displaced children is carefully monitored at a nutrition and health center in the Um Labassa IDP Camp in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, visits newborn twins in an Indian Army hospital inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano, also a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, visits newborn twins in an Indian Army hospital inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano, also a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
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  • Two newly born twins rest in a hospital run by the Indian Army inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, and renewed fighting in 2015 drove an additional 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. <br />
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The hands in the image are those of Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States who lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
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  • Alek Kual and her twin two-day old infant sons, Chan (left) and Noor, pose in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Parwana Ahmadzai holds her one-week old infant daughter Afsana as she cooks in her home in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Ahmadzai and her family, refugees from Afghanistan, were resettled in Harrisonburg by Church World Service.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches students how to listen to the heartbeat of an infant during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish and a lecturer at the CHTI, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches students how to listen to the heartbeat of an infant during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish and a lecturer at the CHTI, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches students how to listen to the heartbeat of an infant during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish and a lecturer at the CHTI, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches students how to listen to the heartbeat of an infant during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish and a lecturer at the CHTI, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • A nursing student helps a new mother with breast feeding her infant in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. <br />
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These student nurses are being trained at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
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  • An infant is reloaded in a medical manikin during a class on birthing at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, and trains nurses and midwives in Africa's newest country.
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  • Alek Kual and her twin two-day old infant sons, Chan (left) and Noor, pose in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Ahmadullah Ahmadzai holds his one-week old infant daughter Afsana in their home in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Ahmadzai and his family, refugees from Afghanistan, were resettled in Harrisonburg by Church World Service.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Ahmadullah Ahmadzai holds his one-week old infant daughter Afsana in their home in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Ahmadzai and his family, refugees from Afghanistan, were resettled in Harrisonburg by Church World Service.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches students how to listen to the heartbeat of an infant during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish and a lecturer at the CHTI, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Nurse Annet Kojo (in white uniform) supervises care for an infant in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Kojo is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Khadoug Sawady, a Syrian refugee, holds her infant daughter Sajida Jallol in the village of Lala in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The woman received a baby kit provided by International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance which is assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a variety of ways..
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  • Khadoug Sawady, a Syrian refugee, holds her infant daughter Sajida Jallol in the village of Lala in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The woman received a baby kit provided by International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance which is assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a variety of ways..
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  • A class on birthing at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, and trains nurses and midwives in Africa's newest country.
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  • Monika Nowicka, a midwife from Poland who is a lay missionary with the Society for African Missions and a clinical tutor for the Catholic Health Training Institute, leaves the delivery room with a newborn boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Monika Nowicka, a midwife from Poland who is a lay missionary with the Society for African Missions and a clinical tutor for the Catholic Health Training Institute, shows a newborn boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Just minutes after being born, a baby boy is wrapped up in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Marshalin Fugaren, a midwife student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, wraps up a newborn baby boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Marshalin Fugaren, a midwife student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, holds up a newborn baby boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Marshalin Fugaren, a midwife student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, carries a newborn baby boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Marshalin Fugaren, a midwife student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, wraps up a newborn baby boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Regina Bangireago, in the red scrubs, delivers a baby at the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She's a third-year midwifery student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. On her right is Monika Nowicka, a midwife from Poland who is a lay missionary with the Society for African Missions and a clinical tutor for the CHTI. On Regina's left is Veronica Juma, a traditional birth attendant at the hospital. <br />
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Bangireago has to conduct a minimum of 50 deliveries before she can graduate.
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  • Comforted by his mother's hand, a baby rests in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Midwifery student Hellena Ajak Agok takes the temperature of a premature baby in an incubator in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She's a student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Dr. James Ring examines a baby in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Ring is the hospital's medical director.
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  • Sister Dorothy Dickson, a member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, examines a young patient as student nurse Augustine Okello looks on in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Dickson is director of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, where Okello is a student. The Institute, which trains nurses and midwives for a country where they are in short supply, is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan.
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  • Nurse Annet Kojo feeds a 4-day old baby girl in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Kojo is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.<br />
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The child's mother is Asia Gabriel.
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  • Nurse Annet Kojo feeds a 4-day old baby girl in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Kojo is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Veronika Krajcovicova, a midwife from Slovakia, places medicine in the eyes of a baby born by Caesarean section at the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Raush Deng holds her 21-day old baby James in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Raush Deng holds her 21-day old baby James in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Feriska Christo (left) waits beside her daughter Nalima as Nyandeng Ring, a technician, weighs her during a periodic wellness exam at the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Yatta Ben (right) examines a young patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Ben is a student nurse from the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau. The Institute, which trains nurses and midwives for a country where they are in short supply, is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan.
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  • A student nurse (right) talks with a mother in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The nurse is from the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau. The Institute, which trains nurses and midwives for a country where they are in short supply, is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan.
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  • Kukani Tutu examines a newborn baby in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Tutu is a student nurse from the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau. Health care is minimal in the newly independent country, and many religious groups are providing personnel and training to fill the gap. The Institute is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan..
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  • Dr. Mariana Santin, a Comboni sister from Italy, examines a baby in the hospital in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Health care is minimal in the newly independent country, and many religious groups are providing personnel and training to fill the gap.
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  • Dr. Mariana Santin, a Comboni sister from Italy, examines a baby in the hospital in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Health care is minimal in the newly independent country, and many religious groups are providing personnel and training to fill the gap.
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  • Dr. Mariana Santin, a Comboni sister from Italy, examines a baby in the hospital in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Health care is minimal in the newly independent country, and many religious groups are providing personnel and training to fill the gap.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • In a transition camp, or so called "satellite camp", Ugandans displaced by two decades of war sort grain as they 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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  • Rheam Abou-Ezze, a nutritionist for International Orthodox Christian Charities, explains the contents of a baby kit she is delivering to a Syrian refugee woman who just gave birth to a baby boy in the village of Qaraolin in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The refugee woman asked not to be identified. The baby kit was provided by the IOCC, one of several members of the ACT Alliance which are assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a variety of ways..
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  • Rheam Abou-Ezze (left), a nutritionist for International Orthodox Christian Charities, explains the contents of a baby kit she is delivering to Khadoug Sawady, a Syrian refugee woman who just gave birth to a baby girl, Sajida Jallol, in the village of Lala in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The baby kit was provided by the IOCC and other members of the ACT Alliance which are assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a variety of ways..
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  • Rheam Abou-Ezze (left), a nutritionist for International Orthodox Christian Charities, explains the contents of a baby kit she is delivering to Khadoug Sawady, a Syrian refugee woman who just gave birth to a baby girl, Sajida Jallol, in the village of Lala in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The baby kit was provided by the IOCC and other members of the ACT Alliance which are assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a variety of ways..
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  • Rheam Abou-Ezze (left), a nutritionist for International Orthodox Christian Charities, explains the contents of a baby kit she is delivering to Khadoug Sawady, a Syrian refugee woman who just gave birth to a baby girl, Sajida Jallol, in the village of Lala in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The baby kit was provided by the IOCC and other members of the ACT Alliance which are assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a variety of ways..
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  • A Syrian refugee woman (right), who asked not to be identified, receives a baby kit for her 17-day old son from Mariam Jiha, a social worker for the Amel Association in Ghaze, a village in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The baby kit was provided by the International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance which are assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a variety of ways..
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  • A Syrian refugee woman (right), who asked not to be identified, receives a baby kit for her 17-day old son from Mariam Jiha, a social worker for the Amel Association in Ghaze, a village in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The baby kit was provided by the International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance which are assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a variety of ways..
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  • Sabeen Abdulsater (center), project officer for the Bekaa Valley for International Orthodox Christian Charities, holds Raghad Al-Hussein's newborn child during a visit inside the family's makeshift shelter in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The IOCC and other members of the ACT Alliance are providing assistance to the rapidly growing number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon..
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  • Raghad Al-Hussein, a 30-year old refugee from Syria, holds her newborn child inside their makeshift shelter in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The wall behind her is made from potato sacks. She and other refugees in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • Carrying her baby, Mary Nkhata waters a community garden in Kaluhoro, Malawi. With support from the Ekwendeni Hospital AIDS Program, she and other villagers participate in a Building Sustainable Livelihoods program, working together to earn and save money, raise more nutritious food, and receive vocational training.
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  • Rhoda Nyoni, her son Moses on her back, waters a community vegetable garden in Kayeleka Banda, Malawi. Nyoni is pregnant, and the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian works with her and other women in the village to insure that they and their children receive proper nutrition and health care.
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  • Rhoda Nyoni, her son Moses on her back, carries a watering can in a community vegetable garden in Kayeleka Banda, Malawi. Nyoni is pregnant, and the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian works with her and other women in the village to insure that they and their children receive proper nutrition and health care.
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  • Marie Ambaye, 22, holds her newborn son, Kasongo, soon after giving birth in the United Methodist Hospital in the village of Wembo Nyama, DR Congo.
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  • Marie Ambaye, 22, holds her newborn son, Kasongo, soon after giving birth in the United Methodist Hospital in the village of Wembo Nyama, DR Congo.
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  • Dr. Martina Partelova examines one-month old Ejan Saleh Hajo in a clinic in a camp for internally displaced persons at Dawodiya in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Mother Amal Ali Basho holds her son. <br />
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More than 600 Yazidi families living in the camp escaped from their communities in the Sinjar region during the attempted genocide by the Islamic State group. Although ISIS was militarily defeated in 2017, camp residents say it's still not safe to return home, nor do they have sufficient resources to rebuild their homes.<br />
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The clinic is run by Saint Elizabeth University's Project for Iraq in Need (STEP-IN), a Slovakia-based organization supported by Caritas and other groups.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides water, sanitation, garbage collection, and psycho-social support for the families in the camp.
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  • Umu Maiga starts a cooking stove as her one-month old daughter Hosemira rides along in a camp in Mopti, Mali, for families displaced by fighting in the north of the country. Islamist rebels seized control of Maiga's home town of Gao and other areas of the north in 2012, but were chased out in early 2013 by French troops. Many displaced and refugee families have yet to return, preferring to wait for better security and improved economic conditions in the north.
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  • Lucky with her baby.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: A child born in the seventh month of pregnancy receives support at Phebe Hospital. Located in Bong county, Phebe Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a government referral hospital for which the Lutheran Church in Liberia provides managerial resources.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: 38-year-old Rachel Zackpah tends to her two-day-old child in the ward at Ganta Hospital. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: Grace Quanor holds her two-day-old brother in her arms at Ganta Hospital. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: 38-year-old Rachel Zackpah tends to her two-day-old child in the ward at Ganta Hospital. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: A two-day-old child rests on a bed at Ganta Hospital. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia.
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  • A class on birthing at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, and trains nurses and midwives in Africa's newest country.
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  • A class on birthing at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, and trains nurses and midwives in Africa's newest country.
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  • Monika Nowicka, a midwife from Poland who is a lay missionary with the Society for African Missions and a clinical tutor for the Catholic Health Training Institute, wraps up a newborn boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Monika Nowicka, a midwife from Poland who is a lay missionary with the Society for African Missions and a clinical tutor for the Catholic Health Training Institute, holds a newborn boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Marshalin Fugaren, a midwife student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, wraps up a newborn baby boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • A mother and child sit on a bed in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • A baby rests in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Comforted by his mother's hand, a baby rests in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Comforted by his mother's hand, a baby rests in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Nurse Annet Kojo feeds a 4-day old baby girl in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Kojo is a 2017 graduate of the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Fatima Nakuyioko takes a look at her baby, moments after it was born via Caesarean section in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Raush Deng holds her 21-day old baby James in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Mary Arcangelo (left) steadies her son, five-month old Mohamed, as Nyandeng Ring, a technician, weighs him during a periodic wellness exam at the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Mary Arcangelo (left) steadies her son, five-month old Mohamed, as Nyandeng Ring, a technician, weighs him during a periodic wellness exam at the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • A baby born prematurely rests in an incubator at the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Jameis Dual holds his 12-day old daughter Aden, who is suffering from malaria, in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Rejoice Martin attends to a patient in a neonatal incubator at the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Martin, a pediatric nurse, is a 2013 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Rumbek.
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  • Yatta Ben (right) examines a young patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Ben is a student nurse from the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau. The Institute, which trains nurses and midwives for a country where they are in short supply, is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan.
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  • Dr. Mariana Santin, a Comboni sister from Italy, examines a baby in the hospital in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Health care is minimal in the newly independent country, and many religious groups are providing personnel and training to fill the gap.
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  • A woman carries a child on her back and food on her head 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 South Sudan. As many as 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.
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  • Nurse Ivy Salonoy cares for 3-day old Tiffany Reeze Pablo in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. One of two twins born prematurely, she and her sister did not survive.<br />
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The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
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