ANNE DAVENPORT:
Can a camera be a tool for peace? That's one of the questions behind National Geographic's photo camps.
Now in their 10th year operating around the world, one program focused on South Sudan, known as the world's newest nation. South Sudan has been embroiled in a series of civil wars. The most recent 13-month conflict has left more than 10,000 people dead, and reopened deep ethnic divides, causing more than one million to flee and driving the country of 11 million closer to famine.
Catherine Simon Arona is a law student in Juba, the nation's capital and the largest city. She's one of 20 students at the university there from a cross-section of tribes who set out to document their reality. We talked to her on a recent trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, where she explained the backstory to this image of an orphan at the Confident Children out of Conflict center.
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