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  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class on story-telling in a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
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  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-104.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, laughs as she teaches a class at a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-111.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class on story-telling in a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-108.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class on story-telling in a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-107.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-102.jpg
  • 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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  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, laughs as she teaches a class at a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-110.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class on story-telling in a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-105.jpg
  • 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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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A sister wears a replica of the Lund Cross offered as a gift from the Lutheran World Federation to sisters at the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. 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.]
    Tanzania-2022-Hillert-20220326_AH2_0...jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, grabs her tongue as she emphasizes pronunciation while teaching a class in a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-197.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, emphasizes pronunciation as she teaches a class in a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-196.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class on story-telling in a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-109.jpg
  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, talk with farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
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  • Sister Kathryn "Katy" Webster, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, hands out a calendar that promotes the Synod of the Amazon to farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Kathryn "Katy" Webster, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, talk with farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training course in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she is teaching in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-103.jpg
  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, poses for a photo with rural residents in their home near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, talk with farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, talk with farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, hugs a farmer after a meeting in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Stella Arul (left), an Indian member of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit, and Sister Felistus Kasyoka Mbisi, a Kenyan member of Our Lady of the Missions, walk on the campus of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, where both are tutors. 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..
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-wau-cthi-02...jpg
  • Sister Joana Mai Hla Kyi, a member from Myanmar of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, demonstrates therapeutic massage on Josephine Hanari, a pregnant woman in Riimenze, in Southern Sudan's Western Equatoria State. Looking on are the sister's apprentices, John Sanday (left) and Mangesto Arjangelo Santo. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong (right), a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with Esta Ekele about the woman's pigs in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, worked with Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.<br />
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All the deer in the compound are named Bambi.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, feeds Bambi, one of several deer who live in the fenced compound of Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.<br />
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All the deer in the compound are named Bambi.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B3...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, feeds Bambi, one of several deer who live in the fenced compound of Solidarity with South Sudan in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.<br />
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All the deer in the compound are named Bambi.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B3...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, brought the Eucharist to Helena Inigoyo following Mass in Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B0...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, brought the Eucharist to Helena Inigoyo following Mass in Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B0...jpg
  • Sister Joana Mai Hla Kyi, a member from Myanmar of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, demonstrates therapeutic massage on Josephine Hanari, a pregnant woman in Riimenze, in Southern Sudan's Western Equatoria State. Looking on are the sister's apprentices, John Sanday (left) and Mangesto Arjangelo Santo. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-riimenze-30.jpg
  • Sister Joana Mai Hla Kyi, a member from Myanmar of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, demonstrates therapeutic massage on Josephine Hanari, a pregnant woman in Riimenze, in Southern Sudan's Western Equatoria State. Looking on are the sister's apprentices, John Sanday (left) and Mangesto Arjangelo Santo. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-riimenze-28.jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, brought the Eucharist to Daniella Namanga following Mass in Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. Sister Rosa spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Sister Migodel of the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania tends to the convent's rabbits. The convent 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 of the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania tends to the convent's cows. The convent 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.]
    Tanzania-2022-Hillert-20220326_AH1_6...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.
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  • 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.
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  • Sister Cleonice Salvadeo is an Italian Comboni sister working in South Sudan. She has long been a leader in peacebuilding and combating gender-based violence..
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  • Sister Leema Rose Savarimuthu observes as a student nurse attends to a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. <br />
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Sister Lima, a Holy Spirit Sister from India, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan and principal of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau that trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Leema Rose Savarimuthu accompanies nurses and student nurses as they visit a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. <br />
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Sister Lima, a Holy Spirit Sister from India, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan and principal of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau that trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, examines fruit in a community garden she supervises in Riimenze, a small village in Western Equatoria State in South Sudan. Sister Rosa is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-riimenze-05.jpg
  • Sister Mary Paropet, a Missionary Franciscan Sister of the Immaculate Conception, talks with students in a classroom at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. <br />
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Paropet, from Papua New Guinea, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, which trains teachers and health workers from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-39.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-37.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-36.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-33.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-32.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-31.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-28.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-27.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-23.jpg
  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-sttc-21.jpg
  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India (right), is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa travels in a boat to Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal, accompanied by teacher Michael Lam (center), one of her students. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa supervises a teacher's work from the back of a classroom in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-80.jpg
  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa supervises a teacher's work from the back of a classroom in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-79.jpg
  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa supervises teacher Simon Amum's work in a classroom in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-malakal-76.jpg
  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa supervises a teacher's work in a classroom in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa supervises teacher Simon Amum's work in a classroom in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India (left), is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa visits with teacher Adwok Adeng, one of her students, outside a school in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal. Adeng is wearing a vest identifying him as a worker at village the voter registration center--part of the preparations for the January 2011 referendum on independence for Southern Sudan. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Ninet D'Costa, FMA, a Catholic nun from India, is a teacher trainer in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Sister D'Costa came to the war-torn African country under the auspices of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups supporting Southern Sudan with educational personnel and prayer. Here Sister D'Costa climbs out of a boat in Detang, a small village across the Upper Nile River from Malakal, with the help of teacher Michael Lam, one of her students. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with refugee children in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, helps a girl pump water from a well in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small child in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small child in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small child in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small child in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, feels the head of a woman as she talks with her in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Margaret Scott, a New Zealander and member of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a young girl as she visits with people in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan, 44 km north of Yambio, where more that 4,000 people took refuge in late 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army attacked their communities inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks by the LRA inside Southern Sudan and in the neighboring DRC and Central African Republic have displaced tens of thousands of people, and many worry the attacks will increase as the government in Khartoum uses the LRA to destabilize Southern Sudan, where people are scheduled to vote on independence in January 2011. Catholic pastoral workers have accompanied the people of this camp from the beginning. Sister Margaret works in the area as a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, a pastoral presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Margaret Scott, a New Zealander and member of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, visits with children in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan, 44 km north of Yambio, where more that 4,000 people took refuge in late 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army attacked their communities inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks by the LRA inside Southern Sudan and in the neighboring DRC and Central African Republic have displaced tens of thousands of people, and many worry the attacks will increase as the government in Khartoum uses the LRA to destabilize Southern Sudan, where people are scheduled to vote on independence in January 2011. Catholic pastoral workers have accompanied the people of this camp from the beginning. Sister Margaret works in the area as a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, a pastoral presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Margaret Scott, a New Zealander and member of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a young girl as she visits with people in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan, 44 km north of Yambio, where more that 4,000 people took refuge in late 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army attacked their communities inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks by the LRA inside Southern Sudan and in the neighboring DRC and Central African Republic have displaced tens of thousands of people, and many worry the attacks will increase as the government in Khartoum uses the LRA to destabilize Southern Sudan, where people are scheduled to vote on independence in January 2011. Catholic pastoral workers have accompanied the people of this camp from the beginning. Sister Margaret works in the area as a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, a pastoral presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Margaret Scott, a New Zealander and member of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a young girl as she visits with people in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan, 44 km north of Yambio, where more that 4,000 people took refuge in late 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army attacked their communities inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks by the LRA inside Southern Sudan and in the neighboring DRC and Central African Republic have displaced tens of thousands of people, and many worry the attacks will increase as the government in Khartoum uses the LRA to destabilize Southern Sudan, where people are scheduled to vote on independence in January 2011. Catholic pastoral workers have accompanied the people of this camp from the beginning. Sister Margaret works in the area as a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, a pastoral presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, supervises a game among girls in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan, 44 km north of Yambio, where more that 4,000 people took refuge in late 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army attacked their communities inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks by the LRA inside Southern Sudan and in the neighboring DRC and Central African Republic have displaced tens of thousands of people, and many worry the attacks will increase as the government in Khartoum uses the LRA to destabilize Southern Sudan, where people are scheduled to vote on independence in January 2011. Catholic pastoral workers have accompanied the people of this camp from the beginning. Sister Rosa works in the area as a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, a pastoral presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Sandra Amado (in hat), a Comboni sister from Brazil, celebrates the end of a special teacher training course with her students in Agok, a town in the contested border region of Abyei between Sudan and South Sudan. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan. The teachers she taught in Agok are among tens of thousands of people displaced in 2011 attacks by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan. .
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  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Canada, leads displaced teachers in morning stretching and yoga exercises 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. Sister Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. The teachers in Agok were part of a continuing education program run by Solidarity with South Sudan at the request of the local Catholic parish. .
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  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Canada, leads displaced teachers in morning stretching and yoga exercises 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. Sister Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. The teachers in Agok were part of a continuing education program run by Solidarity with South Sudan at the request of the local Catholic parish. .
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  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Canada, leads displaced teachers in morning stretching and yoga exercises 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. Sister Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. The teachers in Agok were part of a continuing education program run by Solidarity with South Sudan at the request of the local Catholic parish. .
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  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Canada, leads displaced teachers in morning stretching and yoga exercises 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. Sister Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. The teachers in Agok were part of a continuing education program run by Solidarity with South Sudan at the request of the local Catholic parish. .
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  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Canada, leads displaced teachers in morning stretching and yoga exercises 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. Sister Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. The teachers in Agok were part of a continuing education program run by Solidarity with South Sudan at the request of the local Catholic parish. .
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  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Canada, leads displaced teachers in morning stretching and yoga exercises 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. Sister Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. The teachers in Agok were part of a continuing education program run by Solidarity with South Sudan at the request of the local Catholic parish. .
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  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Canada, leads displaced teachers in morning stretching and yoga exercises 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. Sister Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of religious orders and congregations assisting the newly independent country train teachers, health care personnel, and pastoral workers. The teachers in Agok were part of a continuing education program run by Solidarity with South Sudan at the request of the local Catholic parish. .
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Sister Ufoolwakwe Kimaro — a former nurse-midwife now living and serving at the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania — makes wafers for Holy Communion. The convent 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 Ufoolwakwe Kimaro — a former nurse-midwife now living and serving at the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania — makes wafers for Holy Communion. The convent 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 Migodel of the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania tends to the convent's rabbits. The convent 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 Migodel of the Ushirika wa Neema, Lutheran Sisters’ (Deaconesses) Convent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania tends to the convent's pigs. The convent 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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  • 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.
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  • Sister Leema Rose Savarimuthu observes as a nurse and student nurse attend to a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. <br />
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Sister Lima, a Holy Spirit Sister from India, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan and principal of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau that trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Leema Rose Savarimuthu observes as a nurse and student nurse attend to a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. <br />
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Sister Lima, a Holy Spirit Sister from India, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan and principal of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau that trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Leema Rose Savarimuthu accompanies a student nurse as he visits a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. <br />
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Sister Lima, a Holy Spirit Sister from India, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan and principal of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau that trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, picks fruit in a community garden she supervises in Riimenze, a small village in Western Equatoria State in South Sudan. Sister Rosa is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, picks fruit in a community garden she supervises in Riimenze, a small village in Western Equatoria State in South Sudan. Sister Rosa is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, examines plants in a community garden she supervises in Riimenze, a small village in Western Equatoria State in South Sudan. Sister Rosa is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, examines plants in a community garden she supervises in Riimenze, a small village in Western Equatoria State in South Sudan. Sister Rosa is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • Sister Margaret Malone, a School Sister of Notre Dame, works with a student in a classroom at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan.<br />
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Malone, from the United States, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, which trains teachers and health workers from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Margaret Sheehan, a Faithful Companions of Jesus Sister from Ireland, delivers new notebooks to a student at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. <br />
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Sheehan is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, which trains teachers and health workers from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Nentaweh Wakger, a School Sister of Notre Dame, talks with students in a classroom at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. <br />
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Wakger, from Nigeria, is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, which trains teachers and health workers from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Ailish O'Brien, a Sister of Mercy from Ireland, talks with students in a classroom at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. <br />
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O'Brien is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, which trains teachers and health workers from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Ailish O'Brien, a Sister of Mercy from Ireland, talks with students in a classroom at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. <br />
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O'Brien is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, which trains teachers and health workers from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Margaret Scott, a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions from New Zealand, talks with students at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. <br />
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Scott, a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, is the principal of the school, which trains teachers from throughout the country.
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  • Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, teaches a class at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. The newly independent country faces a critical shortage of trained teachers, and several religious groups are pitching in to help. Sister Amado is a volunteer with Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups providing training for teachers, health care workers, and pastoral agents in South Sudan.
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