Letter: South Sudan: Signs of Hope

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"South Sudan's Army Faces Accusations of Civilian Abuses" (news article, Sept. 29) is one of several recent accounts in The New York Times about problems in the two-year-old country. The reports of violence are very troubling. Lost among news of turmoil, however, are signs of hope.

South Sudan is a large and diverse country with many people who are working with limited resources to improve their communities. Our organization, the Maine-African Partnership for Social Justice, recently conducted a medical education project in the River Kit region of South Sudan. Members of eight tribes attended our training.

Earlier this year, these tribes also formed a village health care committee to lobby the government for improved health services. This collaboration among villages is inspiring and could serve as a model for other areas of the country where tribal violence is causing so much pain and destruction.

The peaceful, civic-minded people we met make us optimistic for South Sudan's future.

CHARLES RADIS
KYLE RATNER
Portland, Me., Oct. 3, 2013

The writers are, respectively, director and a volunteer for the Maine-African Partnership for Social Justice.

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