A female student nurse at Rumbek Nursing School is urging women in South Sudan to be proactive, arguing that the building of the new nation requires enterprising women.
Sani Andrew Bashir told Good News that women need to stand together and be strong, adding that there has to be some collaboration between men and women to build the new nation.She said South Sudan requires healthy citizens.
She encouraged South Sudanese to be at the service of life in order to curb any further losses of life and depend on God.
Ms. Sani revealed that she felt the desire to be a medical practitioner since her secondary school due to the suffering and death she saw among her people.
She added that some people discouraged her to follow her dream but she got the support of her family.
Ms. Sani, 25, is a native of Mabaan County, Upper Nile State.
She completed her secondary school in 2006 and did a two-year course in Human Resources at Khartoum University and studied Community Health in Nairobi, Kenya.
She is a first-year student at Rumbek Nursing School.