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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.
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      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. 
Elisa B

'Lost Boy' Begs US to Help End Sudan Slave Trade - World - CBN News - Christian News 24... - 1 views

  • He was a young boy when Arab raiders ransacked his village, killed the men, and bound Dang and his mother to a camel.
  • They were then dragged away from their home in southern Sudan to a life of slavery.
  • "They let me sleep with goats," Dang told CBN News.
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  • Drunk and abusive, his slave master often beat him. Once, as punishment, he had chili peppers rubbed into his eyes, causing him to go blind.
  • Experts say there's really no concrete estimate on the number of slaves in Sudan. They blame the absence of data on a lack of concern in the international community.
  • CSI rescued Deng and brought him to the United States, where doctors recently operated on his eyes. It's unclear how much of his sight he may regain.
  • "The offspring of those women who are enslaved when they're raped by their masters or their master's sons will become Muslim. They have no choice," Eibner explained.
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    This is the story of an 18 year old boy telling his story of how he and his mother were taken as slaves. It is very brief but has some horrifc points.
Elisa B

'Lost Boys of Sudan' - where are they now? | MSUToday | Michigan State University - 2 views

  • A notable quality among the refugees is their extraordinary ability to cope with chronic adversity and trauma even though some suffer from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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  • esettlement experiences based on whether they were minors or adults. Minors had to adjust (and some who are still minors continue to adjust) to American schools and living in American foster families, having lived mostly in peer groups prior to resettlement.
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  • Adults struggled to become economically independent, working long hours at low-paying jobs and struggling to find time and money to go to school.
  • Still, the refugees send as much money to Africa as possible to help those who were left behind
  • “He is like one of our adult children,” he said. “Both of his parents are deceased, and we try to fill in as best we can as his American parents.
  • “In the beginning his needs were great – health issues, learning to take care of basic needs, learning to drive a car, etc. Now, he has become very independent. We have shared his sadness such as when his mother died in 2003.
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  • The MSU study noted that refugee camp experiences had significant positive and negative influences on the refugees’ adjustment in the United States. For instance, having suffered through hardship, they recognized the special opportunity they had coming to the United States to pursue an education and employment, according to Luster. 
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    This is a very brief article which talks about how some Sudanese have adapted to life in the US amongsth with their goals and struggles.
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.
Rosalie K

Lost Boys of Sudan Refugee Resettlement - 1 views

  •  An estimated two million people have died and four million have been made refugees in the eighteen year old civil war in Sudan.
  • hey remained in camps in Ethiopia until a newly-elected government expelled them in 1991, and they were forced to return to Sudan.
  • Last year, the United States offered to resettle 3,600 of these "lost boys."
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  •  Grouped in threes or fours, the Sudanese young men, now in their late teens and twenties, are being resettled in sites in the US where expertise and special services are provided for these refugees refugees who have been deprived of their childhood and family life. In addition to expert case workers, sponsoring churches make an invaluable contribution to the adjustment of the refugees.
  • Starting in the late 1980s, thousands of Sudanese boys trekked to Ethiopia to flee the war. T
  • The three very gaunt and thinly clad young men arrived in the snow of a northern winter to a warm reception from Andrews Memorial UMC, James Street UMC, and the Church World Service (CWS) staff
  • foundation on which they can rebuild their lives: an apartment, furnishings, clothing, kindly guidance and friendship, accompaniment to appointments, help in learning to cook for themselves, shop, and prepare for job interviews.
  • United Methodist Churches
  • adapt to a new culture and become a part of the community.
  • the church arranged for Samuel to attend Nottingham High School,
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    This site gives a brief description about the Lost Boys and talks about their resettlement to America. 
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    A very descriptive and informative piece of writitng about the resettlement of the lost boy in America. Some information on their journey and their life in America. 
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.''
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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.
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