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“AFRICA IS being saved by African women,” Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, S.S.H.J. says.
Ugandan sister mends lives by Jennifer Tomshack
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, S.S.H.J. is helping to create a future for victims of civil war with care, compassion—and sewing machines. Jennifer Tomshack is editorial director of TrueQuest Communications, publisher of VISION V oc ation Guide.
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T TAKES MORE THAN COURAGE to defy a warlord and his rebel soldiers, but sewing machines? That is one of the ingenious tools Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, S.S.H.J. put to use to undo the damage of the reign of terror that has decimated a generation of Ugandan and Sudanese people. Nyirumbe, a member of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus based in Juba, South Sudan, has helped more than 2,000 girls who were abducted, raped, tortured, and forced to kill their own family members by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army. Nyirumbe has answered the call to serve these girls—who have been shunned and persecuted by their own communities for bearing their captors’ children. As
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