ABOUT ME!
I am a former Lost Boys of the South Sudan, and now an American citizen pursuing a bachelor of Art of Information Science at the State University of New York at Oswego, a class of 2021. The road of wanting to get a degree in the field I admired had been very rough, but I am very much determined and motivated, I shall get there.
(South Sudan break away from Sudan through a referendum in 2011, and now it is the newest country in the World). The group of young boys who left that country at the age of 8-12 fled Sudan's longest civil war. These group of twelve thousand young kids runs to Ethiopia for safety without their parents. Finally, the boys settled in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and they lived there for many years until American people and the government decided to bring them to the United States of America. I am one of them. And I am here chasing educational dreams in SUNY-Oswego. I live in Syracuse
The Lost Boys of Sudan!
Since 1983, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Sudanese Government have been at war in southern Sudan. The conflict has already claimed more than 500,000 lives and displaced huge numbers of people. Among these were at least 20,000 children, mostly boys, between 7 and 17 years of age who were separated from their families. These 'lost boys' of the Sudan trekked enormous distances over a vast unforgiving wilderness, seeking refuge from the fighting. Hungry, frightened and weakened by sleeplessness and disease, they crossed from the Sudan into Ethiopia and back, with many dying along the way. The survivors are now settled in the United of America.
In 1987, civil war drove an estimated 20,000 young boys from their families and villages in southern Sudan. Most just six or seven years old, they fled to Ethiopia to escape death or induction into the northern army. They walked more than a thousand miles, half of them dying before reaching Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. The survivors of this tragic exodus became known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. In 2001, close to four thousand Lost Boys came to the United States seeking peace, freedom and education. The International Rescue Committee helped hundreds of them to start new lives in cities across the country.