In southern Sudan, most women spend an average of eight hours a day pounding their staple grain a sorghum a into an edible powder.
At the request of formerly enslaved women, My Sister's Keeper helped the villages of Panliet and Akon acquire grinding mills. These mills saved many women and girls from thousands of hours of backbreaking labor. In addition, the mills provided jobs for a few women, and improved the quality of life of hundreds more. For example, many of the village girls who had to pound gain out of necessity are now freed up to attend primary school.
