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Women's Center

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Women are the fabric of the tribal culture in southern Sudanese and northern Ugandan. They do most of the farming, child-care, preparation of meals, household chores, and water-fetching. While women do most of the work and are the backbone of social relationships in a village, these areas are still highly patriarchal and women have very limited social space that is their own. In 2003, Mosaic paid for a Women's Center to be built in southern Sudan in order to give women their own place for networking, gathering, resting, and meeting.

"To designate a hell is not, of course, to tell us anything about how to extract people from that hell, how to moderate hell's flames. Still, it seems a good in itself to acknowledge, to have enlarged, one's sense of how much suffering caused by human wickedness there is in the world we share with others. Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood. No one after a certain age has the right to this kind of innocence, of superficiality, to this degree of ignorance, or amnesia." (Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 114) Susan Sontag