Complex sentence: The orphans were encouraged to acquire vocational skills and Simone Ovide was trained as a nurse's aide, and was working in that capacity when she met a young doctor named Francois Duvalier.
Split into simpler sentences: The orphans were encouraged to acquire vocational skills and Simone Ovide was trained as a nurse's aide. While working as a nurse she met a young doctor named Francois Duvalier.