Charlayne Hunter-Gault reported yesterday on a group of American women who have traveled to Southern Sudan to help build a girl’s school there. Reporting for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Hunter-Gault follows the Americans, who call their group My Sister’s Keeper, to the village of Akon in the predominantly Christian, southern part of Sudan. One of the women in the group, Sarah Rial, is a Sudanese exile returning home for the first time in 20 years. Rial says she is overwhelmed by the situation in Akon:
The people are talking about things that are not available — no schools, no hospitals, medical supplies,” she says. “There are so many things that need to be done.”
Part two of Hunter-Gault’s report from the Sudan will air on “All Things Considered” today.
Click here to listen at NPR.org.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is the author of the forthcoming book, New News Out of Africa, which is due in May.
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