I hope we eventually will unite again. Go to National Geographic's Sudan Facts page and invite volunteers to take turns reading aloud the information. And he joins us today in the studio. They finally came to the United States in 2001. Mr. MAJOK: It was a joyous moment for me to reunite with my family after six years of separation. Before I could leave, one of the ladies told me to wait while everyone left so they could see if I could be carried out in a Red Cross car for the injured and the smallest children, so I stayed behind.A month after the rest of the kids had left, I was playing in the little river with the other children and the enemy came. His name was Mabil. Let's talk a little bit about what's been happening since you came to the United States six years ago. We lived like that for two months. With some of the boys arriving in the camps at ages as young as 6 or 7, many of the Boys spent the majority of their childhood and adolescence being raised in the camps. She held her hands up to her face and stepped back. Atem talked about his life as a "Lost Boy" and what happened when he settled in Michigan like the time his foster mom grounded him just for wanting to punch a kid who'd insulted him. He had put on a dark-colored suit and a striped shirt just for her. Further, the Northern population was primarily Arabic-speakers, while the South comprised an English speaking population. In 1994, I went back to Sudan. Water was scarce, and they would sometimes go half a day without a drink. I remember how vulnerable children are. [26] Moreover, a 2005 study found that 20% of Lost Boys under the age of 18 suffered from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. I stayed flat and waited until nighttime. "People drowned in the river," said Ayuen, now a medical technician at an assisted living facility in Dallas. In this way, girls were prevented from earning a formal education, further entrenching them in their inability to sustain themselves. Three years later, I flew out of Nairobi to America and started high school in Rochester, Minnesota. Mr. MAJOK: When we came as political refugee when we're - when I resettled here, we were put in group of two or three or four or five people - Sudanese who know each other in the same apartment.
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