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Molly Sunwoo

The Valentino Achak Deng Foundation - Interview - 0 views

  • VAD: It is very close to the truth, but many things in the book are somewhat different than what happened in life. Some characters have been combined. Some time is compressed. They are minor things, but they were necessary. For one thing, I was very young when the book begins, so I could not remember conversations and small details from my early childhood in Marial Bai. It was necessary to reconstruct the chronology, and that is what Dave did. He took the basic facts and then created the story from there.
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      He states that he didn't make What is the What a biography because he couldn't remember all the tiny details on the way. Because some of the characters were combined and the time was compressed. Could this give him a 'slack' or possibly an excuse to exaggerate a bit in some parts of the story?
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    About writing What Is The What.  Double interview with Valentino Achak Deng and Dave Eggers. 
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    Shantanu this is about the process of writing the book, you might find it interesting. :)
Elisa B

The Lost Boys of Sudan; The Long, Long, Long Road to Fargo - New York Times - 2 views

  • A few days ago, they had left a small mud hut in a blistering hot Kenyan refugee camp, where after walking for hundreds of miles across Sudan they had lived as orphans for the past nine years.
  • a group of roughly 10,000 boys who arrived in Kenya in 1992 seeking refuge from their country's fractious civil war, which pits a northern, Khartoum-based Islamic government against Christian and animist rebels in the south
  • Many died from starvation or thirst. Others drowned or were eaten by crocodiles as soldiers forced them to cross a swollen Ethiopian river. According to U.S. State Department estimates, during an upsurge in fighting that began in 1987, some 17,000 boys were separated from their families and fled southern Sudan in an exodus of biblical proportions. Yet by the time the Lost Boys reached the Kakuma Refugee Camp, their numbers had been cut nearly in half.
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  • The majority of the boys belonged to the Dinka or Nuer tribes, and most were then between the ages of 8 and 18. (Most of the boys don't know for sure how old they are; aid workers assigned them approximate ages after they arrived in 1992.) As Red Cross and United Nations relief workers scrambled to find shelter for them, the boys -- which is how they all, regardless of age, refer to one another -- described an almost unfathomable journey.
  • described the Lost Boys, whom he met several times during their itinerant years, as ''among the most badly war-traumatized children ever examined.''
  • repatriation
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      Definition: Send someone back to their own country
  • becoming the largest resettled group of unaccompanied refugee children in history.
  • one new arrival scream and run in fear at the sight of an escalator
  • Given the magnitude of these kids' adjustment, it was hard not to wonder how it would all work out.
  • The words describing America had piled up without real meaning: freedom, democracy, a safe place, a land with food enough for everyone
  • he combination of war, famine and disease in southern Sudan has killed more than two million people and displaced another four million
  • They're going from an environment where you've basically been given everything at the camp to an environment where you have to work, you have to produce,'' says Steve Redding, who directs the Kenya and southern Sudan programs of International Rescue Committee. ''It's a huge leap
  • ''It's a hard life here,'' Sunday whispered to the older boy, ''but it's a free life too.''
  • espite their numbers, the lost boys tell stories that are remarkably similar and uniformly disturbing.
  • While they can be strikingly unemotional describing the horrors of their pasts, they nonetheless seem eager for Americans to appreciate the plight of their country. Predictably, those who had been in the United States a month or more were the most comfortable reflecting on what they had been through, while newer arrivals often seemed overwhelmed
  • as many as 74 percent of the boys survived shelling or air bombardment, 85 percent saw someone die from starvation, 92 percent said they were shot at and 97 percent witnessed a killing.
  • Terry Walsh, vice president for a refugee program run by Catholic Social Services in Lansing, Mich. ''For most refugees, education is important. But I've never met a group more dedicated to it. Education has always been the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.''
  • According to psychologists who work with war victims, refugee children who have finally reached a safe and stable environment are often confronted with long-suppressed feelings of fear, guilt and grief over what they have been through.
  • Arguably, whether their parents are living or not, most of the Lost Boys have no choice but to move on
  • Five weeks after his arrival, he was finding life in America to be hard -- harder than anyone had told him it would be
  • Without an American host family or church organization to help buffer the expenses, the three brothers seemed to grow more despondent with each passing week.
  • The first three months are always the toughest. It really does get better
  • ''When someone first comes to this country as a refugee,'' he says, ''there's a euphoria of starting anew. But when that starts to wear off, a lot of problems can surface.''
  • This is a stove burner. this is a can opener. This is a brush for your teeth. The new things came in a tumble. The brothers' home was a sparsely furnished two-bedroom apartment in the basement of a sterile-looking complex on Fargo's south side, for which they would pay $445 a month. It had been stocked by a resettlement agency employee, primarily with donations from area churches and businesses, and the randomness reflected as much: there were two bundt pans, six tubes of toothpaste and no towels or cutting knives. Nonetheless, it was a good start. A loaf of white bread sat on the counter alongside a bunch of ripe bananas. There were cans of beans, a jumbo box of Corn Flakes, tea bags, a modest collection of mismatched dishes and a gallon of whole milk in the refrigerator.
  • im. Each boy then took a turn at the sink, awkwardly shoving the faucet handle to and fro.
  • And so began an opening spree. We opened a bag of potato chips. We opened a can of beans and untwisted the tie on the bagged loaf of bread. We unwrapped some I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and dropped a pat to sizzle in a hot pan on the stove. We cracked eggs, each boy taking his turn, erupting into paroxysms of laughter as the shell shattered in his grasp. After the eggs were scrambled and the food laid out, Peter, Maduk and Riak sat down and ate, chewing loudly, not saying a word until most of it was gone.
  • Hornbacher's, a standard-issue Midwestern grocery store, proved to be full of wonders. The electric doors. The grocery carts. The riotous rows of brightly packaged food and the ample-bodied white people who filled their carts with whatever they wished to buy. With the eyes of nearly every shopper in the store on them, the boys wandered tentatively through the produce section, looking but not touching, until Riak discovered a bin of green mangoes, which triggered a round of excited Dinka chatter. As we made our way through the store, they recognized nothing else except a bag of rice, but each new aisle seemed to embolden them, and soon they were moving as a meticulous three-man inspection team, studying labels, squeezing boxes and quietly pronouncing the names of everything from Special K to Velveeta.
  • The next aisle over, Peter touched my shoulder. He was holding a can of Purina dog food. ''Excuse me, Sara, but can you tell me what this is?'' Behind him, the pet food was stacked practically floor to ceiling. ''Um, that's food for our dogs,'' I answered, cringing at what that must sound like to a man who had spent the last eight years eating porridge. ''Ah, I see,'' Peter said, replacing the can on the shelf and appearing satisfied. He pushed his grocery cart a few more steps and then turned again to face me, looking quizzical. ''Tell me,'' he said, ''what is the work of dogs in this country?''
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    This is a very long article which follows the hard story of three brothers who were resettled in the US. It is a very long article which is very detailed and gives you a very good understanding of what they went through.
Molly Sunwoo

Slavery in Sudan - 1 views

  • last ten years.
  • mostly Dinka people
  • Bahr al-Ghazal
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      'Mostly Dinkas and people from the Northern Bahr al-Ghazal region.' This is precisely the identity of Achak Deng.
  • government-armed militia
  • Rezeigat and Meseriya people
  • Baggara, cattle-herding Arabic-speaking people
  • Many centuries
  • xported tens of thousands more to Egypt and the Arab states.
  • The government has repeatedly denied that slavery exists,
  • the government has not often been helpful.
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  • eleased by the courts or by inter-tribal negotiation.
  • Reports of foreigners helping to "buy back"
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    About Child Slavery in Sudan. Directly answers the questions; Are there slaves in Sudan? How many slaves are there? Who are the slaves? Who captures them? How long has the taking of slaves in Sudan been going on? What is the Sudan Government's policy? How can the slaves in Sudan be freed? Is slavery the main problem in Sudan's war? What is the background to the war? Is this a religious war? What can I do to help? More information?
Clara M

The Lost Boys of Sudan - 1 views

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    Whoever is interested in the Civil War, the Lost Boys' Journey, how they survived and what they have become today...YOU SHOULD READ THIS !!! It includes facts such as how many were killed in the conflict in Sudan, exactly what happened in the villages and how the Lost Boys were created. Also it briefly gives examples on the types of diseases and dangers they faced during the walk, and where they were headed and how long it took them to reach safety.
Rosalie K

What happened to the "lost girls" of Sudan? - Slate Magazine - 0 views

  • Some of the girls are beaten, raped, or sold off to older men who pay a bridal fee of between five and 50 cows to the foster family.
  • So why are the girls facing hardship in Kakuma while the boys are living out the American dream?
  • Where Are the "Lost Girls"?
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  • with 1,000 to 3,000 girls.
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    Talks about what happened to the Lost girls and their future
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    This is really good  for anyone if you want to research about the lost girls of Sudan and what happend to them. 
mia taicher

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Walk of life for Lost Boy runner - 2 views

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  • The walking seemed endless. So did the sun, and the thirst. Every day.
  • And walked. And walked.
  • He walked because stopping might mean death. Or enslavement.
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  • Yuot's life depended on how fast and how far his tiny bare feet could take him every day, with hot sand prickling every step, for a thousand miles with little or no sleep, day after day, night after night, across Sudan, the largest country in Africa. So he walked. For his life.
  • "The physical elements of the desert were extreme. The boys had to deal with hunger and thirst issues along the way. It's hard to believe what they endured. It's certainly a group of young men who are exceptional. What really got these boys through was a reliance on each other.
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      The boys relied on each other throughout the whole way to survive.
  • During the journey, many died of starvation. Many drowned. Some were shot. Some were devoured by crocodiles.
  • "They were young and they went on this trek that was close to 1,000 miles. They had to endure all of the elements. Many of them saw death on their journey and in Kenya.
  • To survive, they walked. They marched through their war-torn country, seeking refuge, first in Ethiopia, then Kenya and, eventually, the United States.
  • The boys were admired for it. It was really a test of endurance to go through what they did. It's why each one of those boys is so resilient today."
  • Only about half of the Lost Boys who tried to escape Sudan survived the journey.
  • "There were some areas of the desert when we had no water at all, so we had to drink out of small creeks where animals and other people used to go to the bathroom
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    Whoever is interested in knowing more about the Lost Boys' journey, you might want to read this article. it talks about the "Walk of Life", and the story of a 9-year-old boy, Yuot and what he had to endure.
mia taicher

BBC NEWS | Africa | Sudan's 'lost boys' in America - 2 views

  • Three years ago, the United States government agreed to allow 3,600 of them to begin new lives in America.
  • I don't worry now that if I sleep that people are going to shoot me," says 19-year-old Abraham Maker, who arrived in the US in 2001 along with thousands of others.
    • Molly Sunwoo
       
      This is the kind of life they lived before moving to America. But is this a bit exaggerated to gain the sympathy of others, precisely sponsors and americans? Or is this just the bare truth?
  • Abraham has been luckier than other lost boys, many of whom have had difficulty adjusting to life in America.
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      Others may be luckier than others. Nothing will be completely fair. If he is adopted to an American family and is happy now, what happens to the social relationships that he had with his fellow Lost Boys before? Has he forgotten about his old life now?
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  • The unlucky ones, those judged to be above 18, were too old for high school and so had to go to work. As they had no qualifications they were forced to take menial, low-paying jobs.
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      This is not what they expected after over 10 years of being lost. After Ethiopia and Kakuma, the lost boys probably built up their expectations of America so high that they were shocked of what was waiting for them. 
  • "America wasn't paradise and it wasn't as easy as they told you in the camps," says Samuel, who has done the rounds of menial jobs: he's been a security guard and is now a bagger, someone who puts shoppers' groceries in their bags at supermarkets.
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    About the Resettlement of 'The Lost Boys' in America. 
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    This article explains the struggles of the lost boys of Sudan when they adjust to life in America. It shows their difficutlies starting their life from nothing. 
Hiroto A

BBC NEWS | Africa | The 'Lost Girls' of Sudan - 0 views

  • "In our culture, women are being dominated. Not just in Sudan, but in all of Africa. Maybe people don't think we did much, because they see us as followers of the 'Lost Boys'." "But the fact remains ladies were there."
  • Few have thought to inquire about the fate of the "Lost Girls". Although an estimated 3,000 arrived in Kakuma in 1992, most have simply vanished from official records
  • "We have lost them... they are completely lost", Mr Mable says regretfully, "They have lost that status of lost girls. Some of them are mothers. They are married...There's nothing I can do - or anyone else can do" But it is clear that some of the 'Lost Girls' continue to suffer greatly.
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    Hiroto, this article might be helpful for your research...
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    Talks in description about what happened to the lost girls. 
Hiroto A

Where are the Lost Girls of Sudan? | The Chronicles of Travelling Womanists - 1 views

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    This gives of some facts and figures and explains what happened to some of the lost girls. 
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    Where the lost girls of Sudan are
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    Be specific about what you found...
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    According to Sudanese culture, the girls could not be left alone and instead were placed with surviving family members or with other surviving families/adults. Also, when the US resettlement program was created in 1999, by that time, most of the girls had been living in the family units assigned them for 9-14 years and were no longer considered to be orphans. Therefore, they were not allowed for resettlement. However, many of the Lost Girls that did come to the US have now earned their college degrees and/or married. Some have returned to South Sudan and are working in the government of South Sudan and assisting in rebuilding their country. The lost girls are known to be having their normal lives.
Elisa B

Office Of Refugee Resettlement: Policy Guidance & Reporting Forms - 0 views

  • the U.S. refugee Resettlement Program welcomed a new group of refugees that was unique in many respects
  • many boys left their villages for refugee camps in Ethiopia. Some traveled with friends or relatives, others slipped away on their own at night. Few had any idea of what lay ahead of them, believing that their journey would last only a few days. Continually under threat, they fled for their lives, losing their way in the wilderness. They lost everything en route to soldiers, swindlers, or bandits. Many fell victim to lethal diseases. Others were so weakened by hunger and lack of sleep that they could go no further and sat down by the roadside, prey for lions and other wild animals.
  • n 1983, civil war broke out between the northern Arabic-speaking government of Sudan and southern tribes seeking autonomy. Since then, nearly two million people have died and five million have been displaced. Among those displaced are at least 20,000 children, mostly boys, between 7 and 17 years of age who were separated from their families.
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  • Hungry, frightened and weakened by sleeplessness and disease, they made their way to camps in Sudan, where they received help from the International Committee of the Red Cross. From there, they then traveled on foot to safety in northern Kenya. Since 1992, UNICEF has been able to reunite nearly 1,200 boys with their families. But thousands more have remained in the dusty, fly-ridden refugee camp at Kakuma, where they have had to scrape for food and struggle for education.
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    This is a good and very informative article about the resettlement of the Lost Boys. There is the story of what the boys had been through along with facts and figures at the bottom which includes employment rates, work experience, eductation and more.
Molly Sunwoo

Found: How The Lost Boys of Sudan Found Hope In America - YouTube - 1 views

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      There are different perspectives to resettlement in America because different boys were placed in different situations. In some articles, boys who were moved to America mentioned that this is not what they expected, they cannot get any education and must work with a low paying job. But David, on the other hand, is in a whole different situation. He is a successful example of resettlement of the Lost Boys in America who got into college and is in the right situation to even go back to Sudan to help others.  But is this fair? Some people being more lucky than others, when they all went through the same things?
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    Brief description about the Lost Boys and moving to America.
Molly Sunwoo

BBC NEWS | Africa | No return for Sudan's forgotten slaves - 1 views

  • being used as slaves in the north.
  • Some 8,000 people are believed to be living in slavery in Sudan, 200 years after Britain banned the Atlantic slave trade and 153 years after it also tried to abolish slavery in Sudan.
  • Arab militias rode in to her village on horseback, firing their guns. When the adults fled, the children and cattle were rounded up and made to walk north for five days before they were divided between members of the raiding party.
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  • "When I was 12, he said he wanted to sleep with me. I could not refuse because I was a slave, I had to do everything he wanted, or he could have killed me."
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    Article about Slavery in Sudan. For anyone who is interested about the Life in Sudan and Child Slavery. 
Hazel S

UNHCR - Sudan - 0 views

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    The profile on Sudan. Has some interesting information about the refugees and asylum seekers.
Paula Guinto

Hard Choices - Kevin Carter - YouTube - 1 views

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    A short video telling the story of Kevin Carter's picture and his suicide. The repercussions of his decisions and his art.  Complex and haunting...what do you think? 
Paula Guinto

Kevin Carter: The Consequences of Photojournalism - Photography - Fanpop - 0 views

  • In 1994, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer prize for his disturbing photograph of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture (left). That same year, Kevin Carter committed suicide.
  • Carter took twenty minutes to take the photo, wanting the best shot possible, before chasing the bird away.
  • The photo was published in The New York Times in March of 1993, and sparked a wide reaction. People wanted to know what happened the child, and if Carter had assisted her. The Times issued a statement saying that the girl was able to make it to the food station, but beyond that no one knows what happened to her.
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  • Because of this, Carter was bombarded with questions about why he did not help the girl, and only used her to take a photograph. The St. Petersburg Times in Florida said this of Carter: "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene.
  • Carter spoke of his thoughts when he took these photographs: "I had to think visually. I am zooming in on a tight shot of the dead guy and a splash of red. Going into his khaki uniform in a pool of blood in the sand. The dead man's face is slightly gray. You are making a visual here. But inside something is screaming, 'My God.' But it is time to work. Deal with the rest later. If you can't do it, get out of the game."
  • However, Carter was working in a time when photojournalists were told not to touch famine victims for fear of spreading disease. Carter estimated that there were twenty people per hour dying at the food center.
  • Carter's daughter Megan responded to such comparisons with, "I see my dad as the suffering child. And the rest of the world is the vulture."
  • on July 27, 1994, Carter backed his red Nissan truck against a blue gum tree, attached a garden hose to the exhaust pipe, and rolled up the window to his car. He turned on his walkman and rested his head against his backpack until he died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
mia taicher

John Bul Dau, Humanitarian Information, Facts, News, Photos -- National Geographic - 1 views

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    This is an article about John Bul Dau a lost boy of Sudan -he talks about after reaching America -he feels god made him survive for a reason -he talks about the things hes doing to help the people at Kakuma and Sudan -Includes quotes of what he says about making a brighter future for Sudanese people.
Molly Sunwoo

A Lost Boy's Journey-Timeline - ImpactAVillage - 1 views

  • 26,000 other displaced
  • overthrown by rebels.
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    A timeline showing the main events of the Lost Boys. It isn't overly detailed and shows only the major events.  This is a timeline based specifically on a man called Deng Jongkuch. Timeline continues showing the rest of journey - America.  1983 - Sudanese Civil War starts 1987 - War in Southern Sudan (affecting civilians such as Achak Deng. 1987 - The walk of the Lost Boys started. Goal - to reach Ethiopia. 1987-1991 - Refugee Camp in Ethiopia 1991- Walk from Ethiopia to Kenya - after Pinyudo attack
Rosalie K

Lost Boys II: Life In America - CBS News - 1 views

  • Joseph Taban arrived in Kansas City and Abraham Nial got to Atlanta four months before Sept. 11, 2001.
  • it reminded him of ho
  • "How can somebody handle just that small paper," he asks, "and say, this is money?"
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  • It's hard to distinguish what is reality and what is not.
  • they had left a life of terror far behind found that it had followed them to America.
  • Abraham felt he'd reached a dead end
  • if I go down there, am I going to die?
  • "And I wanted to tell him in the United States it's different, you need to think this way and that way. And basically on Sept. 11, I was re-educated because it wasn't a surprise to him.
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    The opinions and views on America by the lost boys and how they cope with adapting to their new environment. 
Hazel S

Sudan: Tribes - 0 views

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    has some good links to information on different tribes in sudan. 
Molly Sunwoo

Lost Boys of the Sudan - 0 views

  • In 2001, intolerable living conditions in the refugee camp gave the United States government reason to resettle some 4,000 of these now young men in America.
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      'intolerable'??
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    Overall summary of the Lost Boys of Sudan. Includes some statistics and numbers. 
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