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Sudan 2008: A circumcision ceremony. The boys with the headbands just had or were about to have circumcisions, their entry into manhood.

: Sudan 2008: Villagers kept their compounds clean and debris-free using the type of homemade straw brooms this mother is carrying. This photograph was taken on one of our “show the UN flag” outback patrols. Jim Parker was in Sudan in 2008 as part of a UN observer mission. While there, the children stole his heart: “I encountered a wonderful variety of children: school and working children; children looking after their baby brothers and sisters; children in dirty ragged clothing and those in clean and pressed school uniforms; begging children and laughing children and children of nomadic families and others who lived in villages.”

: Sudan 2008: In the village of Kortala, our interpreter’s home village, at a school another UN observer raised money to expand

: Sudan 2008: A mother and daughter selling their wares at a simple street market in Dilling

: Sudan 2008: School children and their teachers were always so grateful for any school supplies we could provide. The conditions were primitive and often the students brought chairs from home to sit on (Sudan)

: Sudan 2008: A celebratory dance in Kortala, thanking my partner LCdr Janan Sutherland, for arranging to have an addition built on one of the girls’ schools (Kortala, Sudan)

: Sudan 2008: Alnoor, our interpreter, and his daughter in Kortala, his home village. With the renewed fighting in that area, I worry about what has happened to them all.

: Zimbabwe 2013: It’s not uncommon to see children on their own, looking after even younger children.

: Sudan 2008: A circumcision ceremony. The boys with the headbands just had or were about to have circumcisions, their entry into manhood.