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Elisa B

The Lost Boys - CBS News - 1 views

www.cbsnews.com/8301-3475_162-502594.html

boys sudan article news cbs

shared by Elisa B on 24 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • It's the largest resettlement of its kind in American history.
  • It's a group that's lost in time
  • Most were 7 or 8 when their troubles began in 1987. That's when their predominantly Christian villages in southern Sudan were attacked by Islamic forces from the north.
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  • He was seven when he began the walk. "You have to urinate so that you can drink your own urine,"
  • Twelve thousand boys made it to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, where they stayed four years. But then civil war broke out there and the boys were chased out at gunpoint to the Gilo River. Many were shot. Many drowned. Many were eaten by crocodiles.
  • "They feel that education will speak on behalf of them where their parents can't," says Chanoff, the American aid worker. "So they have a saying, it's actually a very important saying that they have, education is my mother and my father."
  • The survivors of the Gilo started walking back into southern Sudan. They walked across deserts, over mountains. They had no food or water and ate wet mud.
  • For nine years, they've been surviving on one meal a day - wheat flour and maize – in the camp. In 2000, U.S. government began bringing them to America. Before they go, Chanoff gives them a crash course in America 101.
  • But the good news is that Americans are accepting them .
  • "Here are these boys that are products of this horrific civil war and they're coming to our heartland and they're coming to our homes," says Chanoff. "And you know what? People are falling in love with them. They think they're the sweetest, most amazing kids in the world and they're going to be a part of America now and that is unbelievable."
  • Elisa B on 24 Feb 13
     
    This is a good brief story of the Lost Boys and their journey from when they were first attacked to when they set off for the United States. It is not very detailed but it had the main points.
Rosalie K

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

www.cbsnews.com/2100-500164_162-322870.html

boys life america

shared by Rosalie K on 26 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Rosalie K on 26 Mar 13
     
    The opinions and views on America by the lost boys and how they cope with adapting to their new environment. 
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