Photography of the fourth journey

During a 6 weeks stay in Sudan I took 2500 photos. This is the second gallery. It starts with images of the way to Kauda, followed by the town; the schools around Kauda; the Nuba Women's Association. A trip to Komo Clinic; Yousif Kuwa Teacher Training Centre, Dioces of El Obeid Hospital in Gaadeil. There is a trip to Kalkada and some images from Kauda airstrip and it ends with the celebration in honour of the late Yousif Kuwa Mekki on March 31.

FROM KADUGLI TO KAUDA

Cows from the Baggara

Mosque

People walking to Kadugli

Tabaldi tree

Um Serdiba mangos

Yellow paint marking a path used by demining team
to go from Umm Serdiba to Umm Durain

Direction for deminers, who never actually
cleared the minefield on the mountain top

Children playing football

JMC Um Serdiba

JMC

Girl washing clothes

Clothes drying in the sand

KAUDA, AT MOHAMED'S HOUSE

Cleaning the matras

Studying mathematics

Kitchen

Defenitely Mohamed's

Ummassar shaping her eye brows

slippers

Coffee

IN KAUDA TOWN

Aid agencies are well represented

Director of the Veterinary Health Centre

Mohanna, director of the
Customary Land Security Office

Abdelmajid, his assistent

Market square

Muluk

Mohanna

Out on a date?

Football match for the Yousif Kuwa Cup

Busses arive daily from El Obeid

with returnees

or people who went to visi their relatives in the North

AROUND KAUDA

The New Sudan Youth Association

is the only public place with an internet link

Mango garden

Carrying water

Tractor

Building a new home

Making mud bricks

Piles of bricks ready to be fired

The firing needs lots of fire wood

KAUDA AGRICULTURAL PILOT PROJECT

A variety of fruit trees and vegetables is being grown here .

to start improving Nuba diet, with bananas for example

Or shamar (spices)

there is also a greenhouse

where precious trees like ebony are cultivated

Another attempt to introduce variety...

KAUDA SCHOOL AND PRINTING ROOM

Students in class (adult education)

Teacher from Uganda

Sponsored by Unicef

Sponsored by Unicef

The adult education programs are very popular

During the war they had no chance at education

Kauda Press prints books for schools throughout the SPLM area

Actually the copy machine badly needs a new drum

Binding machine

New paper

Oxford dictionary

YOUSIF KUWA TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE

The Yousif Kuwa Teacher Training Centre has about sixty students

most of them are women who live at the centre

as long as there is something to eat

HIV awareness

The teachers

The books

KOMO MODEL SCHOOL

The kids are on holiday

Blackboard

Donated by Unicef

Week schedule

BLACKSMITH

Fully equiped

to make the most beautiful beds

KOMO CLINIC

One of the clinic buildings

The clinic has a laboratory

This patient got burnt real bad

it was an accident and even the doctors wonder how he made it

The women's ward

Patient with her baby

Bed No4

Bed No8

Nurses in the women's ward

HIV awareness.

MOTHER MERCY HOSPITAL GADEIL

The hospital being built by the Diocese of El Obeid

is going to be spacious and light

and clean rooms

Women carrying cement

and making it

GADEIL MARKET

Gadeil market has all sorts of stuff

and it's hard to imagine how nine years ago

there was just nothing.

IN KALKADA

Life is far more primitive

There are no schools, no clinics

The roosters are really skinny

Playing with old tire

Water that used to be just below the surface is now 30 meters deep

and the girls need a long time to fill their jerry cans

Kiss

Biking across Kalkada

Women and monkey

Woman from Kalkadda

Woman from Kalkadda

Woman from Kalkadda

Woman from Kalkadda

Ummassar and her mama

KAUDA AIRSTRIP

Offloading a plane wth relief items

UN base along the airstrip

COMMEMORATION DAY FOR YOUSIF KUWA, MARCH 31

Mausoleum

Statue at the entrance

Inner room

Tomb

Souvenirs

Ummassar outside mausoleum

Paying respect

Start of festivities

Singer

Dancer

The band

PLaying the horns

Dancer

Daldum, kujur and soldier

Clown

Dancing group

Dancers

Dancing in the blistering sun

Dancing Kambala

isn't always easy with those heavy horns

and those decorations dangling in front of your face

or the cloth smothering you...

Ringing small bell

Ringing

and dancing

Recording the sounds

Ummassar and Nadal dressed to impress

Dancing shoes

Dancing shoes

The official part is about to begin

Neroun Philip and Jason Matus

Commander Jagod and other officers

Poet telling everyone the truth!

Which reminds Jagod of a good story

Kujur blessing the people

And addressing them

Ummassar calling for unity

Al Taib with his camera

Anticipating crowd

Jason Matus talks about the CPA

The audience is listenign attentively

And the officers already know the story

Just like the UN people

The Nigerian commander of the UN troops

Children from one of the Model Schools marched in

singing 'Yousif Kuwa, who could forget you?'

and even though she sang horribly of key

everybody was deeply moved (damn I'm crying again)

Aized has something to say

Jagod has something to say

and what they say goes on record

Time for a celebration!

The dancers start milling around

The answer my friend...

Join hands

Join hands

Everybody join hands

Dancer

Someone somewhere won't have a shower tomorrow

The drums are silent

Kau Njaro, or how the Nuba reinvent themselves

It's a family affair

No sleep 'til Brooklyn!

The next morning it's time to say goodbye

Jagod is moved but he doesn't show it

And the dancing group were having a great time

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