Julieta Lino (20), a native of Wau in Western Bahr el Ghazal, has won a UNICEF peacebuilding competition with a poem of peace. She was given an opportunity to travel to the capital city of Juba to perform her poem at a peace event facilitated by the UN. Read it below or watch video of her performance.
Julieta Lino’s Peace Poem:
When I look around I see sadness
When I look around I see worry
When I look around I see danger, anger, death
Oh, is this what life is all about?
No. Life is about love, peace, unity and laughter.
Oh Peace – where do you live?
How can I find you?
Can I touch you? See you? Feel you and taste you?
Together we work for peace, peacefully.
Wake up South Sudan.
Rise up South Sudan.
Work for Peace.