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Video: Education and Health Care in South Sudan

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Gabriel Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, Southern Sudanese "Lost Boys" in the U.S., were forced...

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Jen Marlowe, for the Pulitzer Center

As Gabriel Bol says in Rebuilding Hope, "Peace means development, peace means people go to school, peace means whenyou are sick you get treatment. Health and education go hand in hand, they are not really separate things."

Health care and education were among the two most vital needs in South Sudan, according to almost everyone that we spoke to, from villagers to Southern Sudanese government officials.

But rebuilding health care and education systems after decades of civil war presents one challenge after another.

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