South Sudan Education
Women teachers overcome gender discrimination
Becoming a teacher wasn’t easy for Madelina Louis. A member of the Azande tribe from Nzarra, along South Sudan’s border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madelina enjoyed learning and wanted to share her thirst for knowledge with others. So in 2013, she enrolled in the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio. While…
A resilient woman
I’ve often used the word resilient to describe the people I met in South Sudan. None of them are untouched by hardship in one form or another, but they seem to get up the next day and get on with it. I’m fortunate to have a rather sunny disposition, inherited from God knows where, so…
A teacher’s path in the Nuba Mountains
When Abass Daud was a child, there were no schools. There was only war. The government in Khartoum was waging war on his homeland in the Nuba Mountains, located in Sudan’s South Kordofan region near that country’s border with what is today South Sudan. “We were always running from the bombs of the Antonovs and…
‘You never feel like you’re alone’ – South Sudan woman chooses to be midwife
Rosaline Edwards Anthony knows what it’s like when the delivery of a child goes poorly. When she went into labor in 2020, a problem developed with her baby’s amniotic fluid. As contractions came and went, the medical staff couldn’t decide what to do. Decisions passed from one doctor to another as shifts changed, even though…
New book on Solidarity with South Sudan examines a ‘communal journey’ of religious
NEW YORK — On the eve of the 11th anniversary of South Sudan’s independence, a new book traces the history of Solidarity with South Sudan, noting that the collaborative 14-year-old ministry formed and run by female and male religious has been a model in humanitarian efforts across congregational lines. Sr. Patricia Murray writes in the…
A new model for Catholic mission
Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral agents in Africa’s newest country. In the process, its members seek to model collaboration that brings together people from disparate backgrounds in pursuit of a common mission. “All religious congregations are facing a crisis of vocations, so…