PEACEKEEPERS CREATE LIBRARY FOR DISPLACED CHILDREN
Channel: UNMISS VIDEOS
Date: 2020-02-14

A simple conversation with frustrated teenagers living in a UN protection site in South Sudan who don’t have the money to go to university led to a major project to build a new library. After listening to the teenagers, UNMISS community policing officer Elisabeth Joyce Nilssen, responded to their hunger to learn by joining forces with fellow peacekeepers to construct a library in a grass tukul within the camp. They collected hundreds of books from colleagues as well as friends and family overseas in an effort to give these children, who have been devastated by civil war, the chance to reach their full potential and to enjoy a better life.