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LOST BOYS OF SUDAN AT MEREDITH
Morgan Ericson
Staff Writer
On March 25th, 2009, the Lost Boys of southern Sudan gave two separate
lectures at Meredith College. Part of the CBS “60 Minutes” documentary on
the Lost Boys was shown and was followed by a personal account given by
two Lost Boys, Joseph and Samuel, who have been relocated to .the United
States.
In 1983 civil war erupted in southern Sudan. Both Joseph and Samuel
remember the day when their villages were attacked. The boys, after hav
ing been advised by their parents to flee and not return to the village in
such situations, started walking with no intended destination. They, along
with thousands of other children, walked for three months and battled hun
ger, crocodiles, lions, death, snakes and dangerous rivers before arriving at
a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. They were forced to relocate several
more times.
In 2001, after a Congressman visited the refugee camp and saw first
hand the dire circumstances of the Lost Boys, the United States began to
relocate them—including the Lost Girls—to the Midwest. Every week
ninety names were posted on a bulletin board in the camp, and the Lost
Boys checked to see if they would be part of the lucky few to leave the refu
gee camp. Joseph was one of the last of the Lost Boys to be relocated before
the peace agreement was signed in 2005 in Sudan. The boys described the
shock of the move, mentioning ]jow difficult it was to accustom themselves
to new phenomena such as snow and seafood.
Although the Lost Boys are spread out over several states, they still main
tain contact with each other. While Joseph was only able to talk to his sisters
in Sudan for the first time this year, Samuel mentioned that he still does not
know where his mother is but knows that someday he will find her.
Both Joseph and Samuel still have hope for Sudan and continue to pray
for peace for their home country. Current plans to restore peace to Sudan
include the organization’s funding of a co-ed school open to 400 children
of differing religions. The organization hopes to open the school as early as
January of next year. For more information on the Lost Boys and how they
are rebuilding southern Sudan, visit their website: www.rebuildingsouth-
emsudan.org. ■
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