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  • A man unloads sorghum for displaced families in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. The sorghum being unloaded here, a donation by the U.S. government, is part of an aid distribution by the World Food Programme.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-087.jpg
  • A man unloads sorghum for displaced families in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. The sorghum being unloaded here, a donation by the U.S. government, is part of an aid distribution by the World Food Programme.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-088.jpg
  • Men unload sorghum for displaced families in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. The sorghum being unloaded here, a donation by the U.S. government, is part of an aid distribution by the World Food Programme.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-085.jpg
  • A man unloads bags of sorghum for displaced families in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. The sorghum being unloaded here, a donation by the U.S. government, is part of an aid distribution by the World Food Programme.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-084.jpg
  • A Toposa girl protects her family's sorghum crop near Nakubuse, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
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The girl stands on an elevated platform where she can survey the entire field. When birds come to eat the grain, she forms a ball of mud around the end of a long flexible stick, which she then swings and cracks like a whip, sending the mud flying toward the birds. As the harvest approaches, every field has at least one such elevated platform, and children are the main protectors of the crop.<br />
<br />
The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, which includes this community, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-C587.jpg
  • Displaced women carry bags of sorghum that they received April 7, 2017, in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, chased from their homes by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, they set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remained camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approached.<br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. The ACT Alliance is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
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  • A man unloads sorghum for displaced families in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. The sorghum being unloaded here, a donation by the U.S. government, is part of an aid distribution by the World Food Programme.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-086.jpg
  • A woman grinds sorghum in Bazungua, a small community near the war-torn village of Riimenze, South Sudan. The woman participates in a women's group, supported by Solidarity with South Sudan, focused on improving the quality and quantity of food they produce.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B2...jpg
  • A woman grinds sorghum by hand in Bazungua, a small community near the war-torn village of Riimenze, South Sudan. The woman participates in a women's group, supported by Solidarity with South Sudan, focused on improving the quality and quantity of food they produce.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B2...jpg
  • A Toposa girl protects her family's sorghum crop near Nakubuse, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
<br />
The girl stands on an elevated platform where she can survey the entire field. When birds come to eat the grain, she forms a ball of mud around the end of a long flexible stick (as seen in this photo), which she then swings and cracks like a whip, sending the mud flying toward the birds. As the harvest approaches, every field has at least one such elevated platform, and children are the main protectors of the crop.<br />
<br />
The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, which includes this community, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-C580.jpg
  • A Toposa girl protects her family's sorghum crop near Nakubuse, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
<br />
The girl stands on an elevated platform where she can survey the entire field. When birds come to eat the grain, she forms a ball of mud around the end of a long flexible stick, which she then swings and cracks like a whip, sending the mud flying toward the birds. As the harvest approaches, every field has at least one such elevated platform, and children are the main protectors of the crop.<br />
<br />
The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, which includes this community, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-C576.JPG
  • As children watch, Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, helps a displaced woman grind sorghum by hand inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. The task is typically seen as women's work, and Bassano's attempts to master it was greeted with amusement. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-020.jpg
  • A woman grinds sorghum by hand in Bazungua, a small community near the war-torn village of Riimenze, South Sudan. The woman participates in a women's group, supported by Solidarity with South Sudan, focused on improving the quality and quantity of food they produce.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B2...jpg
  • A woman winnows sorghum in Bazungua, a small community near the war-torn village of Riimenze, South Sudan. The woman participates in a women's group, supported by Solidarity with South Sudan, focused on improving the quality and quantity of food they produce.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B2...JPG
  • As children watch, Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, helps a displaced woman grind sorghum by hand inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. The task is typically seen as women's work, and Bassano's attempts to master it was greeted with amusement. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-019.jpg
  • As children watch, Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, helps a displaced woman grind sorghum by hand inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. The task is typically seen as women's work, and Bassano's attempts to master it was greeted with amusement. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-018.jpg
  • A woman winnows sorghum in Bazungua, a small community near the war-torn village of Riimenze, South Sudan. The woman participates in a women's group, supported by Solidarity with South Sudan, focused on improving the quality and quantity of food they produce.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B2...jpg
  • A Toposa girl watches over her family's sorghum crop near Nakubuse, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
<br />
The girl stands on an elevated platform where she can survey the entire field. When birds come to eat the grain, she forms a ball of mud around the end of a long flexible stick, which she then swings and cracks like a whip, sending the mud flying toward the birds. As the harvest approaches, every field has at least one such elevated platform, and children are the main protectors of the crop.<br />
<br />
The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, which includes this community, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-C598.jpg
  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, helps a displaced woman grind sorghum by hand inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. The task is typically seen as women's work, and Bassano's attempts to master it was greeted with amusement. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-017.jpg
  • A woman grinds sorghum by hand in Bazungua, a small community near the war-torn village of Riimenze, South Sudan. The woman participates in a women's group, supported by Solidarity with South Sudan, focused on improving the quality and quantity of food they produce.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B2...jpg
  • A Toposa girl protects her family's sorghum crop near Nakubuse, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
<br />
The girl stands on an elevated platform where she can survey the entire field. When birds come to eat the grain, she forms a ball of mud around the end of a long flexible stick, which she then swings and cracks like a whip, sending the mud flying toward the birds. As the harvest approaches, every field has at least one such elevated platform, and children are the main protectors of the crop.<br />
<br />
The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, which includes this community, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-C574.jpg
  • A dog sleeps on a pile of sorghum just harvested in Santa Catarina Masahuat, El Salvador.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-028.jpg
  • On her family's hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, El Salvador, Roxana Ascencio Reyes carries home part of the sorghum harvest.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-021.jpg
  • On her family's hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, El Salvador, Roxana Ascencio Reyes carries home part of the sorghum harvest.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-023.jpg
  • Displaced families receive sorghum during a food distribution by the United Nations World Food Program in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-092.jpg
  • Displaced families receive sorghum during a food distribution by the United Nations World Food Program in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-093.jpg
  • Displaced families receive sorghum during a food distribution by the United Nations World Food Program in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-094.jpg
  • After sweeping up sorghum seeds spilled on the ground during the distribution of emergency food supplies by the United Nations World Food Program, a woman 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, sifts the precious seeds from the dirt in order to take them home for her family. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-013.jpg
  • On her family's hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, El Salvador, Roxana Ascencio Reyes carries home part of the sorghum harvest.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-022.jpg
  • Women carry bags of sorghum on their heads in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-225.jpg
  • People eat ugali, made from ground sorghum, in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B4...jpg
  • A woman unloads emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-1439.JPG
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0913.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0887.jpg
  • Atouc Dut sifts sorghum she had ground in Malek Miir, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and left people hungry. A local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, drilled a well for the community and has provided food vouchers to hungry families, including Dut and her husband and four children. With food vouchers instead of bulk food, beneficiaries were able to buy the exact food they wanted, while at the same time supporting local traders and markets.
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  • Angui Machar pours sorghum into a hopper at a Caritas-sponsored grinding mill run by widows in the displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-249.jpg
  • Seven-year old Nyaboth grinds sorghum at her home in Mogok, South Sudan. Her family received assistance in growing food from a faith-based organization.
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  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0887.jpg
  • A woman helps another woman up a muddy bank as they unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0904.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0845.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0816.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0824.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0870.jpg
  • A woman helps another woman up a muddy bank as they unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0904.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-1440.JPG
  • Angui Machar pours sorghum into a hopper at a Caritas-sponsored grinding mill run by widows in the displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-248.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0884.JPG
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0870.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0833.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0824.jpg
  • A Toposa girl keeps watch for pests in a sorghum field in Kuron, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
<br />
The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Assuring women and girls have a voice in community decisions is an integral part of that peacebuilding.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-B43.JPG
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0845.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0913.jpg
  • When South Sudan's civil war broke out in Juba in December 2013, Peter Frisus fled from the fighting to Mundri, where he has relatives. He has survived there thanks to the hospitality of his relatives, along with food and agricultural tools provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. His uncle let him use some land to farm. Here he displays, along with his grandmother Elizabeth Frisus, some sorghum that they have harvested.
    south-sudan-2014-jeffrey-mundri-082.jpg
  • When South Sudan's civil war broke out in Juba in December 2013, Peter Frisus fled from the fighting to Mundri, where he has relatives. He has survived there thanks to the hospitality of his relatives, along with food and agricultural tools provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. His uncle let him use some land to farm. Here he displays, along with his grandmother Elizabeth Frisus, some sorghum that they have harvested.
    south-sudan-2014-jeffrey-mundri-083.jpg
  • After sweeping up sorghum seeds spilled on the ground during the distribution of emergency food supplies by the United Nations World Food Program, a woman 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, sifts the precious seeds from the dirt in order to take them home for her family. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-021.jpg
  • Pausing from planting, Adel Dut, a woman displaced by conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, displays sorghum seeds given to her by the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Since 2003, the conflict in Darfur has killed some 400,000 people and displaced about 2.5 million.
    sudan-2005-jeffrey-darfur-65.jpg
  • Atouc Dut sifts sorghum she had ground in Malek Miir, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and left people hungry. A local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, drilled a well for the community and has provided food vouchers to hungry families, including Dut and her husband and four children. With food vouchers instead of bulk food, beneficiaries were able to buy the exact food they wanted, while at the same time supporting local traders and markets.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-B2319.JPG
  • Akech Akech hands a bag of sorghum flour to a woman at a Caritas-sponsored grinding mill run by widows in the displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-247.jpg
  • Pausing from planting, Adel Dut, a woman displaced by conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, displays sorghum seeds given to her by the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Since 2003, the conflict in Darfur has killed some 400,000 people and displaced about 2.5 million.
    sudan-2005-jeffrey-darfur-66.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-1440.JPG
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0816.jpg
  • A girl in a sorghum field in Kuron, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State where the Catholic Church has established the Holy Trinity Peace Village.<br />
<br />
The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Making sure the voices of women and girls are heard and respect is one of the central elements of peacebuilding in the area.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-C140.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0833.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0884.JPG
  • A woman unloads emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.<br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-1439.JPG
  • Angui Machar and Akech Akech pour sorghum into a hopper at a Caritas-sponsored grinding mill run by widows in the displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-abyei-246.jpg
  • On his hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, in El Salvador, Cesar Donal Ascensio Reyes, 41, harvests his crop with assistance from his daughters Enni (left), 15, and Odalis, 13.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-014.jpg
  • Henry Gwese is a farmer in Charumengwe, Zimbabwe. His legs were paralyzed by cerebral malaria. Yet he continues farming, using an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US. Accompanying him is his wife, Nhaume Makavire.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-24...jpg
  • Henry Gwese is a farmer in Charumengwe, Zimbabwe. His legs were paralyzed by cerebral malaria. Yet he continues farming, using an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US. Accompanying him is his wife, Nhaume Makavire.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-24...jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-005.jpg
  • A woman removes grain she has ground into flour in Nyikan, a small village along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0667.jpg
  • On his hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, El Salvador, Cesar Donal Ascensio Reyes, carries home his crop with assistance from his daughter Roxana.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-020.jpg
  • On his hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, in El Salvador, Cesar Donal Ascensio Reyes, 41, harvests his crop with assistance from his daughters Enni (left), 15, and Odalis, 13.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-015.jpg
  • Henry Gwese is a farmer in Charumengwe, Zimbabwe. His legs were paralyzed by cerebral malaria. Yet he continues farming, using an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-24...jpg
  • Displaced women carry home grain on their heads in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-023.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-004.jpg
  • A scenic view of mountains from Cacaopera, Morazán, El Salvador
    el_salvador_hawkey_20060101_383.jpg
  • On his hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, in El Salvador, Cesar Donal Ascensio Reyes, 41, harvests his crop with assistance from his daughters Enni (center), 15, and Odalis, 13.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-012.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-019.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-018.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-010.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-006.jpg
  • A woman removes grain she has ground into flour in Nyikan, a small village along the Akobo River in South Sudan, near the country's border with Ethiopia.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0667.jpg
  • On his hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, El Salvador, Cesar Donald Ascensio Reyes, carries home his crop with assistance from his daughter Roxana.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-019.jpg
  • On his hillside farm outside Santa Catarina Masahuat, in El Salvador, Cesar Donal Ascensio Reyes, 41, harvests his crop with assistance from his daughters Enni (left), 15, and Odalis, 13.
    el-salvador-2009-jeffrey-013.jpg
  • Henry Gwese is a farmer in Charumengwe, Zimbabwe. His legs were paralyzed by cerebral malaria. Yet he continues farming, using an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US. Accompanying him is his wife, Nhaume Makavire.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-24...jpg
  • Henry Gwese is a farmer in Charumengwe, Zimbabwe. His legs were paralyzed by cerebral malaria. Yet he continues farming, using an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US. Accompanying him is his wife, Nhaume Makavire.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-25...jpg
  • Henry Gwese is a farmer in Charumengwe, Zimbabwe. His legs were paralyzed by cerebral malaria. Yet he continues farming, using an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-24...jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-022.jpg
  • A displaced woman pauses to rest as she carries home grain in a wheel barrow in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-017.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain in a wheel barrow in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-016.jpg
  • Girado Ajenga (left) and his son George Okiror inspect their harvest with their huts in the background. They and other Ugandan families who've been displaced by internal conflict for years have returned to Omeon, their village of origin, and are rebuilding their huts, cultivating their fields, and renewing their bond with the land. These families began returning home in April 2007.
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  • Gerardo Parrales Cortés.<br />
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"I'm not the founder of the seed bank, that was my wife" says Gerardo, "but she told me to get involved, so, I got involved. I've been involved for about five years. We've got different types of local beans, white beans, some faster, some slower, some more resistant to drought, and we've got a silo sorghum, and of white maize, anything that's in excess of our own needs, we sell it."<br />
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Jose Nicolás Sánchez<br />
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"We have had so many bad winters, we lost a lot of crops, and ended up with a lack of seeds, that was the problem. So, we began, in that crisis, to work together and save our seeds together, that way everyone involved can lose a crop to drought, but still have seeds to plant the next season. We've got local seeds, sweet beans, sorghum, white maize. We've learned that working together, organising ourselves, we can become more resilient. We've learned, with the support of World Renew, about organic farming, and how to reduce our dependence on agrochemicals and commercial seeds."
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  • People receive food from the ACT Alliance on April 7, 2017, in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, they set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remain camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. <br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. The man, a resident of a nearby community who will receives a handful of food for his work, carries a 100 kilogram bag of sorghum that will be divided between several vulnerable families. <br />
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The ACT Alliance is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
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  • People receive food from the ACT Alliance on April 7, 2017, in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, they set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remain camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. <br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. The man carries a 100 kilogram bag of sorghum that will be divided between several families. <br />
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The ACT Alliance is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
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  • Khadilla Abdulah Ibrahim (right) plows land at the edge of the Bilel Camp for internally displaced persons, along with her 18-year old daughter Hawaia. They have been displaced by government-supported violence against farming villages in the Darfur region of Sudan. They are planting peanuts and sorghum with seeds and a plow provided by ACT-Caritas, a joint effort of the world's Catholic and Protestant communities.
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  • Gerardo Parrales Cortés.<br />
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"I'm not the founder of the seed bank, that was my wife" says Gerardo, "but she told me to get involved, so, I got involved. I've been involved for about five years. We've got different types of local beans, white beans, some faster, some slower, some more resistant to drought, and we've got a silo sorghum, and of white maize, anything that's in excess of our own needs, we sell it."
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  • Men carry a bag of sorghum during a food distribution by the United Nations World Food Program in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum.
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  • Ladi and her family with a week's food. The food includes millet, sorghum, baobab leaves, balls of onion stalks, some chile,  and a small amount of beans
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