South Sudan

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South Sudan is still recovering from generations of civil war. Just a month after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the north and south in January 2005, Irene and her husband moved to Rumbek, South Sudan, where Irene worked for a non-profit organization for two years.

A Spring View

Though a country be sundered,
hills and rivers endure;
And spring comes green again
to trees and grasses
Where petals have been shed like tears
And lonely birds have sung their grief.
... After the war-fires of three months,
One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
... I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
To hold the hairpins any more.

--Tu Fu

Visit http://www.poetseers.org for more beautiful poetry.

Several of Irene's photos from South Sudan have been published by Population Services International, the Global Health Council, and other organizations. Click here to view a sampling of Irene Abdou's Tearsheets.