South Sudan: A Teacher and Survivor Happy to Help Her Community in South Sudan

Gendrassa Refugee Camp — Sanna, a big smile on her face, stepped off the bus after it pulled up at the reception centre in South Sudan's Gendrassa refugee camp. After six tough months on the run, she was relieved to have made it here.

Sanna still feels rheumatic pain after walking for weeks through rain and the flooded land with her whole village to escape the fighting in Sudan's Blue Nile state. The suffering of the most vulnerable on the journey is etched in her mind, including seeing her grandmother die from lack of food and potable water. "She's buried now. We made the grave and we buried her in that grave," the young woman recalled.

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