Jamba Besta had planned to be a secretary, hoping to find work in an office as her homeland of South Sudan emerged out of a 22-year long civil war.Instead, the pregnant mother heads an all-female team of de-miners, removing dangerous explosives from former battlefields.
"I never thought I would be doing this," says Ms Besta, welcoming her six-woman team back from the danger zone they are clearing.
"But it shows those people who think that women can't do jobs like this that they are wrong."
The team's members say they work better as an all-women team - supporting each other against often critical comments that de-mining is work only for a man.
"We live and work away from home all as one team, so it is good we are all women together," she says.
Sudan's north-south war - fought over ideology, religion, ethnicity and oil - ended more than four years ago.
Some two million people died in the war, and its bitter legacy of landmines and unexploded ordnance continues to kill and wound.
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By Peter Martell
BBC News, Bungu
