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Rosalie K

Lost Boy of Sudan talks with Meridian Middle School students - YouTube - 0 views

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    Really interesting story that this los boy of sudan tells to middle school students/ 
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.
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? 
mia taicher

Outcomes of the Sudanese Civil War - 2 views

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    This article shows about some of the things the lost boys of Sudan did to survive. It tells a story about one of the boys who lived at Kakuma but his aunt from Canada later came and took him and his sister to Canada days before he decided to give up hope.
Ryan W

American Chronicle | The Lost Girls of Sudan Find a Voice - 0 views

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    This tells a story about the sudanese lost girls and the struggles in life.
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.
Rosalie K

One Lost Boy of Sudan finds path, shares life story | The Chautauquan Daily - 1 views

  • Bol Malual remembers dodging crocodiles when he was a child
  • Lost Boys of Sudan.
  • You just did it.
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  • he does not know his exact age,
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      At the part where he said that his brother woke him up and told him to run, just imagining that is hard to process. 
  • Malual said his older brother shook him awake one day and told him to run.
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      I think that without the support of each other, they wouldn't have survived. 
  • Every 14 days, each boy received 15 kilograms of maize flour, some cooking oil and one cup of beans,
  • Sharing was what kept us together, pushed us together,
  • If I didn’t receive my ration one day, my friend would call me when it was time to eat.”
  • Malual, then a teenager, found a job. Although the large bulk of his salary went toward rent for an apartment he almost never saw, Malual took on extra hours and began to save money
  • You’re going to go home,’” Malual said. “And they gave me a ticket. I was so happy; I couldn’t believe it.”
  • ‘Is this the wrong family?’”
  • His brother, who had been the one to tell Malual to run as a child, had remained in the village.
  • ‘When I told you to run, I didn’t mean to run forever
  • he described America as his second home and said he couldn’t imagine leaving it.
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    Great story about this boy called Malual and his survival as a lost boy. His story stretches from the beginning to his arrival in America and how he felt about it. 
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    good annotations
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. 
Shruti A

'Lost Boys' of Sudan Tell Their Story : NPR - 0 views

  • Many children survived a gruesome 1,000-mile walk to get to the closest refugee camp.
  • when I resettled here, we were put in group of two or three or four or five people
  • And then eventually, each one of us start finding job and so you find yourself working, you know, totally different environment. But, you know, we are willing to learn and just be able to put yourself in the society you can just learn.
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  • But in terms of making friend, generally, the society has been, I would say, on my side, has been receptive and very hospitable - especially in Tucson, Arizona, where I settled.
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    Interview with one the lost boys, Mr.John Majok
Hiroto A

The Lost Girls of Sudan Try to Tell Their Story - 2004-08-31 - 0 views

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    The lost girl's side of the story 
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