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  • Charles Drici is the carpentry and joinery instructor at the Vocational Training Center in Matara, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The center 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. Equipping young people with job skills provides an alternative to cattle keeping.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-A038.jpg
  • Brother Sylvanus-Aniebiet Victor Okon, a Marist brother from Nigeria, talks to students in class at the Sabegbia Nursery and Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. Brother Sylvanus is an instructor at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute, which places students in the school for practice teaching. The STTC is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Brother Sylvanus is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B374.jpg
  • Brother Sylvanus-Aniebiet Victor Okon, a Marist brother from Nigeria, sits in a classroom doing teacher evaluations at St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. Brother Sylvanus is an instructor at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which he is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B135.jpg
  • Boys pose as a group with their instructor, Charles Drici,  while learning carpentry and joinery in the Vocational Training Center in Matara, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The center 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. Equipping young people with job skills provides an alternative to cattle keeping.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-A035.jpg
  • Boys pose as a group with their instructor while manufacturing concrete blocks in the Vocational Training Center in Matara, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The center 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. Equipping young people with job skills provides an alternative to cattle keeping.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-A032.jpg
  • In the Wesley House Community Center in Meridian, Mississippi, instructor Richard Smith (right) helps Peggy McDonald study for her GED. Wesley House offers a variety of educational and other services to the community.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-mississippi-communi...jpg
  • Sister Maria Fe Divino, accompanied by student nurses Benedict Riak and Victoria Akon, reviews the chart for patient Lodovico Ilial in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Ilial suffers from malaria. The two students are studying at the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau, where Divino, who comes from the Philippines, is an instructor. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-wau-cthi-23...jpg
  • Sister Maria Fe Divino, accompanied by student nurses Benedict Riak and Victoria Akon, talk with Biol Wol in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan, as his wife looks on. The two students are studying at the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau, where Divino, who comes from the Philippines, is an instructor. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-wau-cthi-23...jpg
  • Sister Maria Fe Divino, accompanied by student nurses Benedict Riak and Victoria Akon, visit patient Lodovico Ilial in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Ilial suffers from malaria. The two students are studying at the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau, where Divino, who comes from the Philippines, is an instructor. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-wau-cthi-23...jpg
  • Sister Maria Fe Divino (second from left), accompanied by student nurses Benedict Riak and Victoria Akon, visit patient Lodovico Ilial in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Ilial suffers from malaria. The two students are studying at the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau, where Divino, who comes from the Philippines, is an instructor. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-wau-cthi-23...jpg
  • An instructor helps a student use a tablet computer in the Loreto School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J709.jpg
  • An instructor works with students in a sewing and upholstery class in the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-50.jpg
  • An instructor works with students in a sewing and upholstery class in the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-48.jpg
  • An instructor works with students in a sewing and upholstery class in the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-47.jpg
  • An instructor works with students in a woodworking class at the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-35.jpg
  • A student talks with an instructor at the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-18.jpg
  • A student talks with an instructor at the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-20.jpg
  • A student talks with an instructor at the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-19.jpg
  • An instructor helps students in an art class at the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-13.jpg
  • An instructor helps students in an art class at the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-12.jpg
  • Instructor Ishamis Abu Mhasin helps students learn to spray warnish in a woodworking class in the Vocational Training Center in Gaza City, Gaza. The center is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-137.jpg
  • Instructor Ishamis Abu Mhasin helps students learn to use a belt sander in a woodworking class in the Vocational Training Center in Gaza City, Gaza. The center is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-135.jpg
  • Instructor Ishamis Abu Mhasin helps a student learn to use a saw in a woodworking class in the Vocational Training Center in Gaza City, Gaza. The center is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-134.jpg
  • Libyan rebels have suffered heavy losses on the battlefield in their war against strongman Moammar Gadhafi, so replacements are needed. At a training center in the rebel enclave of Misrata, recruits go through a 20-day training program to prepare them for the frontline. Here an instructor helps a man stretch his arms.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-060.jpg
  • Brother Sylvanus-Aniebiet Victor Okon, a Marist brother from Nigeria, dances with students in class at the Sabegbia Nursery and Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. Brother Sylvanus is an instructor at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute, which places students in the school for practice teaching. The STTC is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Brother Sylvanus is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B415.JPG
  • Nineteen-year old Nirmala (left), a student nurse, attends to a patient under the watchful eye of her instructor, Kezia Sudhakar, in a hospital in Chennai in in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-vocational-traini...jpg
  • Sister Maria Fe Divino, accompanied by student nurses Benedict Riak and Victoria Akon, talk with Biol Wol in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The two students are studying at the Catholic Heath Training Institute in Wau, where Divino, who comes from the Philippines, is an instructor. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-wau-cthi-23...jpg
  • An instructor works with Micaela Torrero (right) in the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-46.jpg
  • An instructor works with Micaela Torrero (right) in the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-42.jpg
  • An instructor works with Micaela Torrero (right) in the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-43.jpg
  • An instructor works with students in a woodworking class at the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute works with youth and adults with disabilities. It receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-36.jpg
  • An instructor works with students in a hair styling class at the Instituto de Buena Voluntad (the Good Will Institute) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sponsored by the Methodist Church of Uruguay, the institute receives financial support from United Methodist Women.
    uruguay-2014-jeffrey-disabilities-09.jpg
  • Instructor Ishamis Abu Mhasin helps students learn to spray warnish in a woodworking class in the Vocational Training Center in Gaza City, Gaza. The center is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-136.jpg
  • Libyan rebels have suffered heavy losses on the battlefield in their war against strongman Moammar Gadhafi, so replacements are needed. At a training center in the rebel enclave of Misrata, recruits go through a 20-day training program to prepare them for the frontline. The training includes hand to hand combat training by instructor Al-Taher Shaba (left).
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-069.jpg
  • Brother Antonio Nunes Ferreira, a Comboni missionary nurse who teaches at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan, talks with a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau as two CHTI nursing students look on. <br />
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Nunes is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups training teachers, medical personnel, and pastoral workers in the world's newest country. Solidarity sponsors CHTI.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-19...jpg
  • Sister Jacinta Prunty, a Holy Faith Sister from Ireland, teaches at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which she is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A606.JPG
  • A class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-20...jpg
  • A class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-20...jpg
  • A class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-20...jpg
  • Students get help from a teacher in the computer lab at the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J625.jpg
  • Brother Joseph Alak Deng, a De La Salle Christian Brother, teaches a continuing education class for displaced teachers 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. Brother Joseph is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country of South Sudan to train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. .
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-080.jpg
  • Jeddah Palo listens to instruction from Judgie Decadiz, the teacher of a welding course at the San Roque Catholic Church in Tolosa, a small town in the Philippines that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Palo, 24, lost her home to the typhoon's storm surge and has been living with her mother. The 25-day welding course, sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, provides her with training for a new livelihood, at the same time as the students put their newfound skills to work rebuilding the church's collapsed sanctuary. The storm was known locally as Typhoon Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-290.jpg
  • Clara Obiru teaches midwifery students how to use a bulb suction device to clear mucus from a baby's airway during delivery in a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-C394.jpg
  • Clara Obiru teaches nursing students how to insert a nasal gastric tube in a patient at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-C046.jpg
  • Clara Obiru teaches nursing students how to insert a nasal gastric tube in a patient at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-C058.jpg
  • Michael Droma is a nurse tutor the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-A041.jpg
  • Rosa Kimali teaches student midwives techniques to assure the survival of newborn infants in a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-A036.jpg
  • Rosa Kimali teaches student midwives techniques to assure the survival of newborn infants in a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-A031.jpg
  • Rosa Kimali teaches student midwives techniques to assure the survival of newborn infants in a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-A019.jpg
  • Rosa Kimali teaches student midwives techniques to assure the survival of newborn infants in a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-A007.jpg
  • Rosa Kimali teaches student midwives techniques to assure the survival of newborn infants in a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-A009.jpg
  • Rosa Kimali teaches student midwives techniques to assure the survival of newborn infants in a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. The school, which trains nurses and midwives, is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-A016.jpg
  • Madelina Louis teaches a class at the Sabegbia Nursery and Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. A graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute, Louis is the school's head teacher. <br />
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The STTC is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Brother Sylvanus is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B539.JPG
  • Madelina Louis teaches a class at the Sabegbia Nursery and Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. A graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute, Louis is the school's head teacher. <br />
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The STTC is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B464.JPG
  • Madelina Louis teaches a class at the Sabegbia Nursery and Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. A graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute, Louis is the school's head teacher. <br />
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The STTC is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B444.jpg
  • Madelina Louis teaches a class at the Sabegbia Nursery and Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. A graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute, Louis is the school's head teacher. <br />
<br />
The STTC is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Brother Sylvanus is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B432.jpg
  • Madelina Louis teaches a class at the Sabegbia Nursery and Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan. A graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute, Louis is the school's head teacher. <br />
<br />
The STTC is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Brother Sylvanus is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B440.JPG
  • Tutor Phelix Odera talks with students at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A627.jpg
  • Sister Jacinta Prunty, a Holy Faith Sister from Ireland, teaches at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which she is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A587.JPG
  • Tutor Phelix Odera teaches a class at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A576.jpg
  • A teacher and students in class at a school run by the Catholic church in the West Bank village of Aboud. Muslim and Christian students live and study together in peace..
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B17...jpg
  • A class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-21...jpg
  • A class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-21...jpg
  • A class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-20...jpg
  • Students get help from a teacher in the computer lab at the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J615.jpg
  • Students get help from a teacher in the computer lab at the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J634.jpg
  • Students get help from a teacher in the computer lab at the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J621.jpg
  • Students get help from a teacher in the computer lab at the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J613.jpg
  • Brother Julius Oluoch, cfc, an Edmund Rice Christian Brother from Kenya, teaches a continuing education class for displaced teachers 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. Oluoch is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country of South Sudan to train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. .
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-083.jpg
  • Jeddah Palo receives instruction from Judgie Decadiz, the teacher of a welding course at the San Roque Catholic Church in Tolosa, a small town in the Philippines that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Palo, 24, lost her home to the typhoon's storm surge and has been living with her mother. The 25-day welding course, sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, provides her with training for a new livelihood, at the same time as the students put their newfound skills to work rebuilding the church's collapsed sanctuary. The storm was known locally as Typhoon Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-307.jpg
  • Jeddah Palo receives instruction from Judgie Decadiz, the teacher of a welding course at the San Roque Catholic Church in Tolosa, a small town in the Philippines that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Palo, 24, lost her home to the typhoon's storm surge and has been living with her mother. The 25-day welding course, sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, provides her with training for a new livelihood, at the same time as the students put their newfound skills to work rebuilding the church's collapsed sanctuary. The storm was known locally as Typhoon Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-306.jpg
  • Jeddah Palo receives instruction from Judgie Decadiz, the teacher of a welding course at the San Roque Catholic Church in Tolosa, a small town in the Philippines that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Palo, 24, lost her home to the typhoon's storm surge and has been living with her mother. The 25-day welding course, sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, provides her with training for a new livelihood, at the same time as the students put their newfound skills to work rebuilding the church's collapsed sanctuary. The storm was known locally as Typhoon Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-295.jpg
  • Jeddah Palo receives instruction from Judgie Decadiz, the teacher of a welding course at the San Roque Catholic Church in Tolosa, a small town in the Philippines that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Palo, 24, lost her home to the typhoon's storm surge and has been living with her mother. The 25-day welding course, sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, provides her with training for a new livelihood, at the same time as the students put their newfound skills to work rebuilding the church's collapsed sanctuary. The storm was known locally as Typhoon Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-294.jpg
  • Jeddah Palo receives instruction from Judgie Decadiz, the teacher of a welding course at the San Roque Catholic Church in Tolosa, a small town in the Philippines that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Palo, 24, lost her home to the typhoon's storm surge and has been living with her mother. The 25-day welding course, sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, provides her with training for a new livelihood, at the same time as the students put their newfound skills to work rebuilding the church's collapsed sanctuary. The storm was known locally as Typhoon Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-293.jpg
  • Jeddah Palo listens to instruction from Judgie Decadiz, the teacher of a welding course at the San Roque Catholic Church in Tolosa, a small town in the Philippines that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Palo, 24, lost her home to the typhoon's storm surge and has been living with her mother. The 25-day welding course, sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, provides her with training for a new livelihood, at the same time as the students put their newfound skills to work rebuilding the church's collapsed sanctuary. The storm was known locally as Typhoon Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-292.jpg
  • Jeddah Palo receives instruction from Judgie Decadiz, the teacher of a welding course at the San Roque Catholic Church in Tolosa, a small town in the Philippines that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Palo, 24, lost her home to the typhoon's storm surge and has been living with her mother. The 25-day welding course, sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, provides her with training for a new livelihood, at the same time as the students put their newfound skills to work rebuilding the church's collapsed sanctuary. The storm was known locally as Typhoon Yolanda.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-291.jpg
  • The teacher supervises students' work in a primary school class in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-052.jpg
  • Kasongo Wungudi instructs students in how to use the microscope in the lab of the United Methodist hospital in the Congolese village of Tunda.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A037.jpg
  • Refugee girls talk with a teacher in a school operated by St. Andrew's Refugee Services in Cairo, Egypt. The school is supported by Church World Service.
    egypt-2013-jeffrey-refugees-121.jpg
  • Libyan rebels have suffered heavy losses on the battlefield in their war against strongman Moammar Gadhafi, so replacements are needed. At a training center in the rebel enclave of Misrata, recruits go through a 20-day training program to prepare them for the frontline.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-062.jpg
  • Sister Jacinta Prunty, a Holy Faith Sister from Ireland, participates in prayer with other faculty in the chapel of the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which she is a member.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-A668.jpg
  • Madeline Ortiz leads a workshop on salsa dancing at the 2010 Assembly of United Methodist Women in St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-umw-assembly-065.jpg
  • A class at the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. It trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-cthi-21...jpg
  • Students get help from a teacher in the computer lab at the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Sister Christina has been a sister at the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania for more than 30 years, and serves as a Montessori training centre instructor. The Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania accommodates 62 sisters vowed to lifelong service. At the convent, they take care of farming and livestock, and engage in a variety of diaconal activities in surrounding communities. [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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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Sister Christina (right) from the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania greets Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt. Sister Christina has been at the concent for more than 30 years, and serves as a Montessori training centre instructor. The Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania accommodates 62 sisters vowed to lifelong service. At the convent, they take care of farming and livestock, and engage in a variety of diaconal activities in surrounding communities. [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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  • Fredericka Lewis gets encouragement from Michelle Wismer, a fitness instructor from the Arthritis Association, as people do stretching exercises during a daytime senior program at the United Methodist Community House in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Instructor Christian Jensen during an English as a second language class at Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, Washington.
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  • Viktor Marmazyuk, an immigrant from Ukraine, participates in an English as a second language class at Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, Washington. Helping him is instructor Christian Jensen.
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  • A Brazilian instructor helps a Haitian boy learn capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian dance form, at a community center in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The program is sponsored by Viva Rio!, a Brazilian organization helping to revitalize the neighborhood..
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  • A Brazilian instructor helps Haitian children learn Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian dance form, at a community center in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The program is sponsored by Viva Rio!, a Brazilian organization helping to revitalize the neighborhood..
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  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: 36-year-old CAR refugee Amora Paul has been a tailor for 12 years. Today, he lives in the Borgop refugee camp, where he acts as instructor for young people as part of a vocational training initiative by the Lutheran World Federation, setting out to help CAR refugees find ways towards making an income. Amora Paul has trained a total of 13 young tailors, besides running his own shop full time. The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic.
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  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: 36-year-old CAR refugee Amora Paul has been a tailor for 12 years. Today, he lives in the Borgop refugee camp, where he acts as instructor for young people as part of a vocational training initiative by the Lutheran World Federation, setting out to help CAR refugees find ways towards making an income. Amora Paul has trained a total of 13 young tailors, besides running his own shop full time. The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Sister Christina has been a sister at the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania for more than 30 years, and serves as a Montessori training centre instructor. The Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania accommodates 62 sisters vowed to lifelong service. At the convent, they take care of farming and livestock, and engage in a variety of diaconal activities in surrounding communities. [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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  • Harry Nathan (left) and Bernice Otterbridge get encouragement from Michelle Wismer, a fitness instructor from the Arthritis Association, as they do stretching exercises during a daytime senior program at the United Methodist Community House in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • An immigrant woman studying English as a Second Language isn't allowed to leave the classroom until she answers instructor Christian Jensen's question at Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, Washington.
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  • Natalia Toneva, an immigrant from Moldova, gets playfully bonked on the head after making a mistake during instructor Christian Jensen's English as a second language class at Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, Washington.
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  • Natalia Toneva, an immigrant from Moldova, gets a high five from instructor Christian Jensen in an English as a second language class at Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, Washington.
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  • Instructor Christian Jensen fakes a heart attack in response to a student's answer during an English as a second language class at Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, Washington.
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  • A Brazilian instructor helps a Haitian girl learn Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian dance form, at a community center in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The program is sponsored by Viva Rio!, a Brazilian organization helping to revitalize the neighborhood..
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