Among these brave women of South Sudan was the late Achol Philip Nhial—a beautiful, educated, intelligent, industrious, philanthropic and open-minded woman. Acholdit was the wife of Cdr. Salva Kiir Mayardit (the current President of the Republic of South Sudan), and she was the mother to Anok Salva Kiir and Thiik Salva Kiir. She passed after a long illness in Nairobi on 28th February 1993, where she was undergoing treatment. The late Achol Philip Nhial was an educationist who aspired other women to invest in education of their children. As a wife of the second most powerful SPLA/M’s commander, she used her influence to advocate for the care of the widows and orphans of the war of liberation.