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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Located on a high ridge in the Atlas Mountains, the name of the Berber village Isgen means "sheepsheds". When a new place is populated in this part of the Moroccan countryside, it is not uncommon for sheepsheds to be the first permanent constructions on the site, making sure livestock can continue to support people's livelihoods.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Located on a high ridge in the Atlas Mountains, the name of the Berber village Isgen means "sheepsheds". When a new place is populated in this part of the Moroccan countryside, it is not uncommon for sheepsheds to be the first permanent constructions on the site, making sure livestock can continue to support people's livelihoods.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: With its peak of 4,167 meters, Mount Tubkal makes a majestic view of the Atlas Mountains, and forms the highest peak in North Africa. The nearest Berber village, Armed, is located at an altitude of some 1,900 meters, with a population around the same number.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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  • 5 January 2018, Auguni, Morocco: The name of the village of Auguni, located in the Azzaden Valley in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, means "warm hill". The village is named for its strategic location, offering ample warm light even in the coldest winter months. In what in the winter may appear a barren landscape, sunlit shelves on the mountainside provide pockets of warmth for plants and crops to grow.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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  • 5 January 2018, Auguni, Morocco: The name of the village of Auguni, located in the Azzaden Valley in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, means "warm hill". The village is named for its strategic location, offering ample warm light even in the coldest winter months. In what in the winter may appear a barren landscape, sunlit shelves on the mountainside provide pockets of warmth for plants and crops to grow.
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  • 6 January 2018, Imlil, Morocco: By the pass of Tizi n Mzik, near Imlil. On a warm day, the small shed in the Atlas mountain pass of Tizi n Mzik is used by a local berber to sell orange juice. As Moroccan winter is sometimes harsh, however, it is just as useful as a brief refuge to cold passers-by.
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  • 6 January 2018, Imlil, Morocco: By the pass of Tizi n Mzik, near Imlil. Originally from the village of Armed, at an altitude of some 1,900 meters, near Mount Toubkal, Ibrahim is a 39-year-old mountain guide. He's been working as a guide for international guests for more than 16 years. He speaks Berber, two Arabics, English, French
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers. Originally from the village of Armed, at an altitude of some 1,900 meters, near Mount Toubkal, Ibrahim is a 39-year-old mountain guide. He's been working as a guide for international guests for more than 16 years. He speaks Berber, two Arabics, English, French
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  • 5 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_472...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_469...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_470...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_469...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_479...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_472...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
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  • 6 January 2018, Imlil, Morocco: By the pass of Tizi n Mzik, near Imlil.
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  • Children escort their goats as they walk to fetch water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Father Daniel Tutu Kuku is a Catholic priest in Haiban, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. He is a native of the Nuba Mountains.<br />
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The area around Kauda is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • A woman escorts her goats as she walks to fetch water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Children walk to fetch water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Dr. Tom Catena (left), a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, awards Lakuwa Lokolo Rama his diploma as a registered nurse, during a ceremony at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.<br />
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Rama studied for the diploma at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, but after graduation returned home to his native Nuba Mountains. <br />
The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.
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  • Dr. Tom Catena (left), a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, awards Kukani Ibrahim Tutu his diploma as a registered nurse, during a ceremony at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.<br />
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Tutu studied for the diploma at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, but after graduation returned home to his native Nuba Mountains. <br />
The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.
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  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: On the Albayoud Plateau. Originally from the village of Armed, at an altitude of some 1,900 meters, near Mount Toubkal, Ibrahim is a 39-year-old mountain guide. He's been working as a guide for international guests for more than 16 years. He speaks Berber, two Arabics, English, French and some Spanish.
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  • Two girls pump water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Toma Konyono broadcasts from the studio of Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace.
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  • Simon Peter Aede helps 8-year old Kocho Said in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Said lost his leg to cancer the year before and technicians were waiting for swelling in the stump to go down before finally fitting him with a prosthetic leg.
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  • Dr. Tom Catena (left), a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, walks with a nurse through the grounds of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital, at which Catena is often the only physician, is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. Catena is popularly referred to as "Doctor Tom". Behind the two is a foxhole, one of many on the hospital grounds that provides limited shelter during bombings.
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  • Two girls pump water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-869.jpg
  • A girl pumps water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-878.jpg
  • A woman carries water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-842.jpg
  • A girl pumps water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-679.jpg
  • A girl pumps water from a well in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-lugi-675.jpg
  • Toma Konyono interviews Lawrence Angatai in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, Sudan. She is a reporter for the Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace. Looking on is Yusef Ali, a patient in the department who lost a leg in combat in 2017.
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  • Jany Mahmed (left) and Lawrence Angatai help Yusef Ali try on a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Ali, a soldier, had his leg amputated in October, 2017, after he was shot during combat with government troops.
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  • Toma Konyono interviews Lawrence Angatai in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, Sudan. She is a reporter for the Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace. Looking on is Yusef Ali, a patient in the department who lost a leg in combat in 2017.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B317.jpg
  • Rawda Ismael participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
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  • Sisters Kaka and Damari Madama participate in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
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  • Zower Ali participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
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  • Rashida Ismael leads a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B197.jpg
  • Samiyi Alumin participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B188.jpg
  • Amam Fasflif participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B175.jpg
  • Awafi Babdu participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community. Here she poses with her daughter Rawda.
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  • Toma Konyono broadcasts from the studio of Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B138.jpg
  • Toma Konyono broadcasts from the studio of Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-B120.jpg
  • Jany Mahmed and Lawrence Angatai (right) adjust a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A539.jpg
  • Bakhi Shabam walks with her hoe on her head in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • Jany Mahmed and Lawrence Angatai (right) adjust a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A528.jpg
  • Jany Mahmed and Lawrence Angatai (right) adjust a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A519.jpg
  • A leg being manufactured in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A503.jpg
  • Eight-year old Kocho Said sits in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Said lost his leg to cancer the year before and technicians were waiting for swelling in the stump to go down before finally fitting him with a prosthetic leg.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A484.jpg
  • Lawrence Angatai (left) and Jany Mahmed adjust a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A500.jpg
  • Eight-year old Kocho Said sits in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Said lost his leg to cancer the year before and technicians were waiting for swelling in the stump to go down before finally fitting him with a prosthetic leg.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A491.jpg
  • Simon Peter Aede helps 8-year old Kocho Said in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Said lost his leg to cancer the year before and technicians were waiting for swelling in the stump to go down before finally fitting him with a prosthetic leg.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A425.jpg
  • Simon Peter Aede (left) watches as a man learns to walk with a prosthetic leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A417.jpg
  • Simon Peter Aede helps a man learn to walk with a prosthetic leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A412.jpg
  • Simon Peter Aede helps Ashim Abidim try on a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Abidim, 18, lost his leg in a motorcycle accident.
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  • Simon Peter Aede helps Ashim Abidim try on a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Abidim, 18, lost his leg in a motorcycle accident.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A395.jpg
  • Dr. Clarke McIntosh, a pediatric pulmonologist from South Carolina in the United States, studies a chart in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.
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  • Dr. Tom Catena, a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, examines a patient during rounds in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital, at which Catena is often the only physician, is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. Catena is popularly referred to as "Doctor Tom".
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-gidel-A073.jpg
  • Dr. Clarke McIntosh, a pediatric pulmonologist from South Carolina in the United States, confers with others during rounds in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.
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  • Dr. Tom Catena, a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, listens to a nurse during rounds in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital, at which Catena is often the only physician, is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. Catena is popularly referred to as "Doctor Tom".
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  • Dr. Clarke McIntosh, a pediatric pulmonologist from South Carolina in the United States, examines a young patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.
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  • Dr. Tom Catena, a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, examines a young patient during rounds in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital, at which Catena is often the only physician, is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. Catena is popularly referred to as "Doctor Tom".
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  • Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, chair of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, during an interview in the liberated area of the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • Sister Angelina Nyakuru is a Comboni sister from Uganda who has worked for over a decade as the head nurse at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, in the war-torn Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • Young men play football in the moonlight in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Girls walk to school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • A boy walks to school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Father Christopher Konga is priest of the Catholic Church in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. A native of Tanzania, he is an Apostle of Jesus missionary priest.<br />
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The area around Kauda is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Brother Isaac Kornyando is an Apostle of Jesus brother in the Catholic parish of Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.<br />
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The area around Kauda is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • A girl carries things on her head in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • A boy rides a donkey to a weekly market in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • A weekly market in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • A boy in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • A sign outside the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • Nawa Abduraman helps her daughter Kaka, 7, get ready for school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • A girl carries water in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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  • A girl carries her small sibling in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • News Editor Kocholo Latmer broadcasts from the studio of Voice for Peace Radio in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic station broadcasts news and a variety of programming designed to foster reconciliation and peace.
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  • Ibrahim Rabil, a merchant in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, sits in his store. Supplies to the isolated village must come either across enemy lines from the north of the country, or else via a long humanitarian corridor to a refugee camp in South Sudan.
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  • Nurse Magdalene Ali takes the blood pressure of a patient at night in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. Ali is a graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, a project of Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • A woman carries water in Lugi, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in the Nuba Mountains by the Catholic Church, which also sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Jany Mahmed fits Yusef Ali with a new leg in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds. Ali, a soldier, had his leg amputated in October, 2017, after he was shot during combat with government troops.
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  • Legs in the prosthetics department of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area, and has dealt with many amputations of people injured by bombs, artillery, and gunshot wounds.
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  • Awayi Adam participates in a Catholic Church-run women's center in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic center helps women earn incomes that increase their status in the family and community.
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