 We were born in war, grew up in war, become moms in war. And again, some of us are grandmoms in war. And we feel like our children, what will they inherit from us? Wars, destruction, we need to do something as moms. South Sudan is the world's youngest country and one of it's most fragile. In South Sudan, women's and girls are subjected to violence from the ongoing civil war. We have been in conflict since 1955. Everyone is really traumatized with all those kind of things that we didn't even get to heal from the war and then we have another war going on. So it's a really, really big trauma and it's affecting people even in their daily process, their daily life. It's like, you cannot come out at morning and you will guarantee that you will go back home safe. Since 2013, more than 40,000 South Sudanese has been killed and at least a quarter of the population, more than 4 million people have been displaced internally and some to the neighboring countries. The conflict has led to women affecting over 6 million people. It's causing the Earth campaign, ethnic cleansing, child-soldier and gender-based violence as a weapon of war. Sometimes, people hear like the root causes of the conflict in South Sudan is tribal. Actually, it's not tribal, it's political, but then people started to divide themselves based on their leaders. For us, the church, we are looking at this conflict as senseless. It has no meaning. The Cairo Women of Carries program works with the grassroots women's organizations, such as the National Women Program of the South Sudan National Council of Judges. This women-focused peace-building work is part of the public of the communities throughout South Sudan. The National Women Program includes Catholic and Protestants and focus on gender justice issues, including gender-based violence and getting women engaged in the formal peace process. The National Women Program's Action Plan for Peace creates, serves, and neutral spaces for truth-telling and breaching the conflict gap among communities. The Council of Judges now currently is committed and it is a strategy that composes of three pillars that is advocacy, neutral, permanent reconciliation, maybe bringing the influential leaders or the conflicting parties and talk to them, at least for them to change the narrative from the narrative of war to peace. We are about 500 women who come out every month to denounce and say stop this war. We in South Sudan are networking with many women programs, even women caucus, women parliamentarians, because the women that are violated sometimes they don't get away through to get their rights. So we in the church also, because the church is neutral, we don't side, but what we do is speak the truth and we find a way to help the vulnerable. Agnes Petit and Awakden from the National Women Council of Judges tour Canada in late 2017. They visit seven cities in poor provinces to explain how women in South Sudan are trying to bring peace to their country and how Canadians can help. First of all, I've learned a lot. There's one thing that I'm going to take back home. The experience of the indigenous people, I visited a hospital, a healing hospital in Rajayana. And that man, an indigenous man who is responsible for the spiritual things, the medicines there, talked to us about the importance of forgiving. And he was like, lack of forgiveness is always disconnecting a human being. So let us forgive so that we are connected and our connectivity with ourselves connects us with the Creator. And I'm going to take it back to our people there. The woman of courage is the women that have been, you know, have faced a lot of problems, but yet they're still strong enough to stand up for themselves and for others. Women of courage is that strength that Cairo's Canada gave to women to come out and speak for the voiceless. It's like Cairo's Canada is really accompanying the women to become courageous.