Kaoi Nakasa, 37, is an official in charge of Sudan at the Japan support group JICA = Japan International Cooperation Agency. Nakasa has been interested in helping in developing countries since childhood, so he studied Islam at university.
"Sudanese people have a national trait that is like 'friends of friends are family,' and they really helped me," Nakasa says. "I myself felt rewarded to be involved in the process of changing one country," she says of Sudan.