Aid Groups Try To Revive a Town In Remote Sudan  Donor nations
and private agencies focus on means of self-sufficiency  By ,
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor  ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD
Joseph sits on a narrow wooden bench with several other boys in
a nearly bare classroom at St. Mary's School. This windowless,
doorless school is located in one of the poorest and most remote
sections of Africa.  Wearing the only clothing he has - an old
pair of underpants - Joseph tells a visitor: ``I'm poor. I'm not
in school.'' But, he adds quietly, he wants to go to school.
Cut off from much of the outside world by civil war, life in
this small town in southwestern Sudan has reverted in part to
what it probably was like a century ago: People here operate
more on a barter rather than a money economy.  Recommended:
Could you pass a US citizenship test?  Basic goods such as salt,
soap, and clothing are rare. Loincloths and skirts of leaves are
common. Many parents are too ashamed of their childrens'
nakedness to send them