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Sana M

Lost Boys II: Life In America - CBS News - 2 views

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shared by Sana M on 21 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • The fact they came to America to escape from terror meant there would be some rude surprises ahead.
  • they must learn to survive in America.
  • it's not easy for them to figure out what is real and what is not.
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  • it had followed them to America.
  • "I think they had a better grip on what happened than I did,"
  • Sept. 11 is still taking its toll on the lost boys.
  • they don't understand why there are homeless people in America."
  • You've taken someone literally in the stone age and dropped him into a modern civilization
  • Maud R on 21 Mar 13
     
    An article about a Lost Boy who comes to the US and explains his difficulties after moving there.
  • Sana M on 12 Apr 13
     
    Article about the differences in the Lost Boys' life from Sudan and America.
Sana M

Lost Boys of the Sudan - 0 views

www.lostboyschicago.com/LostBoys.htm

sudan lost boys history war america

shared by Sana M on 12 Apr 13 - Cached
  • Approximately 26,000 Sudanese boys were forced by violence from their southern Sudan villages in the late 1980s.
  • Only half of the original boys, about 10,000-12,000, survived the journey, arriving at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya in 1992. The majority of them were 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 Kenya).
  • Sana M on 12 Apr 13
     
    Article about what happened during the war.
Sana M

Sudanese 'Lost Boys' in US, men now, look homeward to new nation - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

www.csmonitor.com/...ow-look-homeward-to-new-nation

sudan boys lost history war america

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  • Driven by familial obligations, nationalism, and a desire to help strengthen the new country’s foundation, many of the 26,000 South Sudanese now living in America say pending independence has brought the moment they have been waiting for.
  • Since the referendum, about 50 people each week have contacted the Government of South Sudan Mission to the United States and the United Nations in Washington, D.C., seeking help processing paperwork for their returns.
  • “The government has been calling for the diaspora to return. Now that the war is over, we need different skills, not only fighting skills.”
  • Sana M on 12 Apr 13
     
    Good article about how Sudan is now and how the boys who are now living in America feel about it.
Sana M

The Lost Boys of Sudan: Finding their way in America - seattlepi.com - 0 views

www.seattlepi.com/...nding-their-way-in-1060236.php

sudan america lost boys

shared by Sana M on 12 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • never seen a dollar bill
  • Chol, 17, was showing the same resiliency that helped him get here.
  • eight years,he had been living as an orphan in the dusty, overcrowded Kakuma Camp in northern Kenya.
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  • He was 3 when he fled civil war in Sudan
  • on foot
  • He should have died. Thousands did.
  • Safe in America on his first day
  • thirst, hunger and disease.
  • Orphaned teens and toddlers alike joined thousands of Sudanese refugees as they trekked hundreds of miles across the blistering hot desert to Ethiopia, back to Sudan and then into Kenya.
  • They survived on leaves, roots and discarded animal carcasses.
  • only half did
  • Kakuma Camp in 1992
  • Sana M on 12 Apr 13
     
    Interesting article about the work and life in America that the lost boys are now experiencing.
Sana M

BBC NEWS | Africa | Sudan's 'lost boys' in America - 3 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...3602724.stm

shared by Sana M on 06 Mar 13 - Cached
  • "I do not worry now about war," says Abraham, who was adopted by an American family and now lives in a suburb in Connecticut near New York, where he plays soccer and is a runner for his high school athletics team.
  • All hoped they would get a high school and university education in the US and one day return to Sudan.
  • getting an education has turned out to be the lost boys biggest problem.
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  • The lucky ones were those judged to be below the age of 18.
  • those judged to be above 18, were too old for high school and so had to go to work.
  • Too old to attend high school, he works loading trucks for minimum wage.
  • "There's no way out," Santino says, "unless you get education."
  • "America wasn't paradise and it wasn't as easy as they told you in the camps,"
  • Back in Africa they do not know how hard it can be here for us."
    • Sana M
      Sana M on 12 Apr 13
       
      The boys who were given a chance to start a new life in the United States were only the orphaned youngsters. Being orphaned made them seem more vulnerable and gave them an advantage.
  • I don't worry now that if I sleep that people are going to shoot me,
    • Sana M
      Sana M on 12 Apr 13
       
      Their lives have changed in a drastic way, affecting their fears as well.
  • Maud R on 06 Mar 13
     
    An interesting article about the Lost Boys and how they are doing now in the US.
  • Pierce Wilding on 19 Mar 13
     
    This is a great BBC article about the lost boys in america and how they have settled is america. In talks about both there education and work. There are also many coments from lost boys that are now living in america
  • Sana M on 12 Apr 13
     
    Informative BBC article about how The Lost Boys have changed and how they are living in the United States.
Akanksha R

'Lost Girls' in U.S. Struggle to Find Their Way | Womens eNews - 0 views

womensenews.org/...-in-us-struggle-find-their-way

girls struggle u s womens lost sudan

shared by Akanksha R on 09 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • "A lot of my friends don't have this kind of chance,
  • They don't
  • speak enough English and have no writing skills. So they go and live with their boyfriends
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  • The women are suffering because they don't leave their apartments and they don't speak English. Many are having children every year and that compounds the problem. These women need to develop a functional literacy, so they can read bus schedules and the names of products and prices in stores.
  • Sudanese "Lost Boys" were making substantial strides in achieving independence, the report found, with employment rates 18 percent higher than among male U.S. counterparts. Lost Girls, by contrast, lag U.S. female counterparts by 25 percent.
  • Many come straight from the village to the United States. The transition is very hard on them
  • Girls and female teens who lost both parents--and sometimes those who had not--were either placed in African foster homes, pushed into marriages with dowries or used as domestic servants
  • , Sudanese women and single Sudanese parents with minor children
  • payments to guardians
  • far more male than female refugees found themselves in a position to meet aid workers
  • "In our culture, freedom is not for girls,
  • Girls are polite and keep quiet. It is hard to have a good life when you think you don't have a voice."
  • the Southern Sudanese Women's Association offers free counseling and educational programs to Sudanese minors in foster care programs
  • because they can't find jobs easily and are afraid they will be teased by younger kids in high school."
  • The norm is to treat girls and women like possessions, but now, we hope to show that there can be another way."
  • Akanksha R on 09 Apr 13
     
    Great site, has statistics, personal experiences, facts and details about culture about Sudanese women and girls. 
Akanksha R

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

www.voanews.com/...262006.html

Sudan Lost girls story perspective gathering USA meeting discussion views Refugees war history

shared by Akanksha R on 02 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • But they're not all boys. Less noticed and vastly outnumbered are the Lost Girls of Sudan. At a refugee reunion in Phoenix, Arizona in late August, the young women held their own mini-conference to discuss their particular plight and tell their own stories.
  • The women agree that being strong and talking is not part of Sudanese culture.
  • you are in America. You have to behave like Americans, so be strong and talk."
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  • "This is your moment of fame. You have to get out here and tell your story. So don't be shy,
  • About 4,000 young men made the trip. But only 89 women did the same.
  • The majority of orphaned girls had been placed with families in the camp and were therefore overlooked.
  • "In Sudanese culture, a young woman is not allowed to stay alone, but for the guy it's okay,"
  • "So what really happened was the young girls were placed in foster homes, and while they were in foster homes they became mothers and housekeepers and got lost along the way."
  • worries that stories like these are not being heard, partly because there are so few Lost Girls, and partly because Sudanese culture does not encourage women to discuss their suffering.
  • "It's the male power thing,"
  • Some of the young women have fought in the war but they don't go out and tell it. But they need to say it and culturally we need to break that barrier to tell our part of the story."
  • Akanksha R on 02 Apr 13
     
    Lost Girls of Sudan each tell a bit of their own stories after gathering together in Arizona. They share their views and perspectives on the conflict in Sudan and the article gives the reader valuable information from the Sudanese women's side. 
Akanksha R

Sudanese American Women Are Encouraged to Further Education | Open Equal Free - 0 views

www.openequalfree.org/...10228

education important equal Sudan girls conference america

shared by Akanksha R on 09 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Women who left the worn-torn country of Sudan were given a clear message at a recent conference: the path to success in the United States is paved by education.
  • When a woman is educated, the entire family benefits due to her ability to bring in a higher income.
  • women in Southern Sudan have been especially vulnerable, having been denied an education.
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  • In the end, Sudanese American women are faced with a double-edged sword and must overcome difficult barriers.
  • It was with hope that the women of the recent Sudanese Women’s Empowerment Conference took to heart the powerful message of how important education is in the United States and around the world.
  • Akanksha R on 09 Apr 13
     
    Short, brief but informative article. Informs reader about how a conference encouraged Sudanese American women to pursue their education and how important it is. Also a personal experience from a Sudanese woman. 
Gurupranav G

CNC World - Sudanese Refugees Struggle for Survival - 0 views

www.cncworld.tv/...es_Struggle_for_Survival.shtml

world struggle Sudan Refugees war camp refugee camp aid international diaspora

shared by Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Life in the refugee camps in South Sudan is precarious as the people there face serious shortages of clean, drinkable water
  • With 37,000 displaced people, the camp has been hit worst by the lack of clean water and the poor hygiene conditions contributing to the spread of water-born diseases
  • They were only drinking water.
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  • most people who arrive at Batil camp are exhausted after an arduous journey on foot
  • severe water shortages and stretched resources are further weakening
  • "We have a hepatitis E outbreak here and diarrhoea cases
  • A lack of water is a lack of everything
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is tackling this emergency by distributing aid to 80,000 refugees of all 4 refugee camps and improving access to clean water in Batil Camp.
  • camps and improving
  • g jerry
  • provid
  • We're increasing the water storage both on site and at the bore holes so we can keep these bore holes running longer. The other main thing is to increase the network of tap stands, especially for the communities further out - to stop these people having to walk so far for water."
  • "We're increasing the water storage both on site and at the bore holes
  • "I couldn't wash the children today as there was no water, and I couldn't do any cooking because there is no water.
  • Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13
     
    Video is the same as one of the sources I shared earlier, but the article below contains the script for the video, along with a little bit more of extra info on the state of the refugees at Batil refugee camp. Not too specific, but alright to give the general picture about refugee camps in South Sudan, rather than outside it.
Gurupranav G

Struggling to bring orphaned family to Canada - Ottawa Morning - CBC Player - 1 views

www.cbc.ca/...2340945998

Sudan Refugees diaspora SPLA lost boys war canada family Dinka

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  • the story of a Sudanese refugee struggling to bring his orphaned niece and nephew to Canada. Today, he's still struggling
  • Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13
     
    Good resource, because although there is no video and this is a radio playback, the speakers talk about the story of a South-Sudanese immigrant to Canada, and it seems that his struggles to bring his family from a refugee camp in Uganda continue to get worse. May even by worse than Valentino's experience as an immigrant.
Gurupranav G

South Sudan: Sudanese refugees struggle in camps - 0 views

www.icrc.org/...south-sudan-refugees-video.htm

Sudan Refugees war SPLA struggle camps

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  • Life for Sudanese refugees in camps in South Sudan is precarious as they face serious shortages of clean drinkable water.
  • Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13
     
    I strongly advise looking at the video embedded in this site. This really shows us that even after the Sudanese escaped their war-torn country, they still faced extreme hardship in refugee camps such as in Ethiopia. I think that it is a good idea to look at the ICRC site in general.
Gurupranav G

Israel Deports Refugees To Sudan Despite Threat To Their Lives - The Daily Beast - 0 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...ite-threat-to-their-lives.html

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shared by Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Israel deported at least 1,000 Sudanese refugees to North Sudan via a third county,
  • despite the fact that “[Sudan] has vowed to punish any of its citizens who ever set foot in Israel”:
  • Though Israel claims the people's return was voluntary, this claim was rejected by UNHCR, which says there is no "free will from inside a prison."
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  • "deporting Sudanese to Sudan would be the gravest violation possible of the convention that Israel has signed - a crime never before committed."
  • An Israeli man shouts racist slogans at a group of Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region as they arrive at a cultural center in southern Tel Aviv on February 15, 2013.
  • Many of the Sudanese who fled to Israel did so from Darfur,
  • American Jewish social activists have been deeply involved in the struggle against the Sudanese government’s genocidal policies;
  • Israel’s decision to send defenseless human beings back to this reality is disturbingly of a piece with the treatment it has long afforded African refugees: As mentioned above illegal immigrants may be detained for years without trial;
  • in one horrific case, a group of 21 refugees was literally left to starve on the border before three were imprisoned and the rest forced to return to the Sinai
  • Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13
     
    I would advise people who are looking into the struggles that refugees face in their lives to look at this because the article really shows how these people are having their lives "controlled" and "dictated" by other nations. It tells us about one of the many struggles that they face.
Akanksha R

How the lost girls became the forgotten girls - Opinion - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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shared by Akanksha R on 04 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • The great unanswered question is: Where in all this are Sudan’s lost girls?
  • But of the 3,700 who initially came here, only 89 were girls. Hundreds of girls had lived through and survived the very same traumas the boys had. Where were these girls? Why were they not included? What had happened to them?
  • The quick answer is that they were simply overlooked.
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  • In traditional Sudanese life, girls are often married in their early teens. Marriages are arranged by families and the groom’s family typically pays a large bride price to the girl’s family. Girls are, in this sense, an economic commodity. In the poverty-stricken refugee camps, foster families most often saw them exclusively that way. Pre-adolescent girls were domestic labor, and marriageable-age girls could be sold off as brides.
  • They are gone now, those lost girls, sold into marriage against their will and denied rights to education and choices for their future.
  • The few who did make it out are impressive people.
  • Akanksha R on 04 Apr 13
     
    This is an interesting article which talks about how Sudanese girls were abused, married off and the ones that had hope made it. It also includes shocking statistics of how many girls were actually lost and how many actually made it to America. Most of the girls were married off in their early teens, abused and denied any access to education or women rights. 
Akanksha R

Interview: 3 Sudanese girls and Valentino and Dave Eggers - 0 views

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Sudan Refugees war lost girls education interview valentino dave eggers marial bai

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  • Akanksha R on 04 Apr 13
     
    Interesting video where Valentino and Dave Eggers interview three sudanese girls about school, subjects, what they want to be when they grow up. Girls worried about future, marriage, college. We get to know the reality these girls face growing up in poverty in Marial Bai.
Akanksha R

'Lost Girls' in U.S. Struggle to Find Their Way | Womens eNews - 0 views

womensenews.org/...-in-us-struggle-find-their-way

girls u s struggle Sudan Refugees history Lost tribes transitions

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  • Akanksha R on 02 Apr 13
     
    Informative article that talks about how the Lost Girls of Sudan have settled in the US and are slowly stepping out of their comfort zone and starting to talk about what life was like for them in Sudan. 
Dhanya N

Slavery in Sudan - 0 views

www.sudanupdate.org/...slave.htm

Sudan Refugees war slavery slaves answers facts

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  • Dhanya N on 27 Mar 13
     
    This website has a lot of answers to questions people may be wanting answers to while researching about sudan. Such as how many slaves there were, who controls them etc.
Maud R

The Long Road From Sudan to America - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...01SUDAN.html

lost boys refugees diaspora america settlement

shared by Maud R on 20 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • The majority of the boys belonged to the Dinka or Nuer tribes, and most were then between the ages of 8 and 18.
  • "Can you tell me, please, is it now night or day?"
  • "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,
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  • Ibrahim, who arrived as a refugee from Somalia in 1996, took an unsparing, sink-or-swim approach.
  • diaspora
  • "Their thirst for knowledge is so great
  • they had embarked on the journey understanding very little about where and how they would land.
  • "It's a hard life here," Sunday whispered to the older boy, "but it's a free life too."
  • 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.
  • "Being alone," he said finally, "makes me think about what's going on in Sudan."
  • 'Don't drink. Don't smoke. Don't kill. Go to school every day, and remember, America is not your home."'
  • Had we actually failed the Lost Boys?
  • practically all newly arrived refugees struggle to gain their footing
  • intimidated by just about everything
  • All they knew of it was what they had felt, grasping a bottle of frozen water an aid worker handed them one day during a "cultural orientation" session at the Kakuma Refugee Camp
  • "flight" had been just a word until the moment their cargo plane lifted out of the red dust
  • Most of the boys don't know for sure how old they are; aid workers assigned them approximate ages after they arrived in 1992.
  • About 500 of the Lost Boys still under the age of 18 will immigrate to the U.S. by the end of this year, becoming the largest resettled group of unaccompanied refugee children in history.
  • I watched one new arrival scream and run in fear at the sight of an escalator.
  • They came, as most of the Lost Boys had, with hopes of furthering their education
  • The words describing America had piled up without real meaning: freedom, democracy, a safe place, a land with food enough for everyone.
  • these boys were lucky, that there were thousands of Sudanese left behind in Kakuma
  • the small indignities and cultural stumbling blocks that lay ahead
  • circling the box of Corn Flakes as if it were a museum piece
  • They were perplexed by American teenagers: the fact that girls wore trousers, that 16-year-old boys could be so big and healthy, that students often disrespected their teachers.
  • "What is this?" Maduk asked, holding up a bar of Dove soap.
  • "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.
  • Education has always been the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."
  • "there's a euphoria of starting anew. But when that starts to wear off, a lot of problems can surface."
  • Maud R on 20 Mar 13
     
    This is a very long but factual article from 2001 when the Lost Boys were settling in America. It follows the lives of 3 brothers with a very similar story to Valentino's (they went to Kakuma as well and were in Ethiopia)
Gaspard N

A Brief History of Sudan - Part 3 - 0 views

africanhistory.about.com/...SudanHist3.htm

Sudan Conflict Peace Intergovernmental authority

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  • Gaspard N on 27 Mar 13
     
    This is part 3 of "A brief History of Sudan", this article talks about the possibility of the end to a military conflict, the end to the cilvil war, peace intergovernmental authority. It is a a very detailed article and very useful.
Maud R

Sudan refugees question whether to return home - USATODAY.com - 1 views

usatoday30.usatoday.com/...h-sudan-refugees-divided_n.htm

refugees sudan lost boys Kakuma diaspora

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  • High school, from the very first day, was a challenge.
  • he excelled at school
  • She has not seen 22-year-old Morris, or his older brother, James, since they left eight years ago to attend high school in the United States.
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  • Morris was among the lucky ones. He not only reached a peaceful, affluent sanctuary in the U.S., but prospered there.
  • Should they return to their homeland now that it completed its secession from the north this month and became the independent nation of South Sudan?
  • first, he wants to become a doctor.
  • a program aimed at connecting young refugees with foster families so they could complete high school in the United States.
  • He struggled to fit in, aided by strong support from teachers
  • won admission to Columbia's,
  • "I'm here, living a life that I never thought of, that people in Kakuma never experienced," he says. "Every day I try to do better, do something to help the people back home."
  • "If I go back, I want to go back as a better person; I want to be a doctor," he says. "It would uplift my family,
  • Some U.N. officials at Kakuma are trying hard to encourage the southern Sudanese refugees to return to their homeland now that it is independent.
  • Maud R on 20 Mar 13
     
    An article about a Lost Boy who's family still lives in Kakuma, but he has moved to America and is quite successful there. He, among other refugees, is unsure whether to return to Kakuma or stay in the US.
Gaspard N

A Brief History of Sudan - Part 2 - 0 views

africanhistory.about.com/...SudanHist2.htm

history Civil War Islam brief sudan

shared by Gaspard N on 26 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Gaspard N on 26 Mar 13
     
    This is the second part of the History of Sudan, talks about Islam in Sudan, Rebels, Nimeiri and the second civil war
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