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excited to share their work with you. Today we'd like you to meet physician and social entrepreneur,

Johannes Reich. What if the people of the world's newest nation shaped their own health care future?

Johannes, who went from herding cattle and fighting as a child soldier, to becoming the first

doctor in his community in South Sudan, shares how he founded YoCare,

a nonprofit that brings primary care to remote communities,

empowering locals to take charge of their own health.

And after we hear from Johannes,

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I'm Johannes Riab. I'm a doctor and a social entrepreneur based and working in South Sudan.

When I was growing up in my belief, my future was to be a cattle keeper.

Through being someone mobile, the nomadic culture, we became adaptive to other

new culture that we learned as we migrate.

And that experience enabled me to connect with a lot of other people.

And so future keeps changing based on the new life I was experiencing.

The future was, you know, to be someone successful,

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