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Making doctors in the South Sudan

By Erica Thompson

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 10, 2012

Dr. Thomas Burke, who has been working to build a medical school and curriculum for students in the South Sudan to help the country develop its own doctors, shares his experience in his second documentary about the Sudan, “Between the Earth and Sky.’’ The film highlights the students’ desire to learn and succeed while battling hunger, malnutrition and homelessness. It will be shown at the Sun Valley Film Festival in Idaho on March 15.

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