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8 unusual facts about Lost Boys of Sudan


Benson Deng

Benson Deng is a South Sudanese writer and one of the Lost Boys of Sudan.

Bob Simon

Notable stories he has done in recent years include the first profile of the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan and an exclusive interview with Iraqi Shiite insurgency leader Muqtada al-Sadr.

Jeff Burlingame

Jeff Burlingame (born June 14, 1971, in Aberdeen, Washington) is an NAACP Image Award winning American author of several books, including biographies of musicians John Lennon and Kurt Cobain, and critical looks at the historic and tragic plights of the Lost Boys of Sudan and the crew and passengers of the Titanic.

Kakuma

For example, the "Lost Boys of Sudan" were a special group who were resettled from the camp to the U.S. in recent years.

Marilyn Lacey

She has also worked extensively with the Lost Boys of Sudan helping them to resettle safely in the United States.

1 For many years she directed programs for refugees and immigrants, including the resettlement of the Lost Boys of Sudan, at Catholic Charities in San Jose.

Michael H. Prosser

Community and personal host, South Sudan refugees, 1995–2001 and for “Lost Boys of Sudan,” 2001, Rochester, New York.

Pakok

Several thousand unaccompanied boys were trained by the SPLA, then used to help prop up the Mengistu regime.


Humanitarian Crisis Hub

From November 2010 to January 2011, HCH and the Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia (SLBAA) formed a partnership that raised community awareness about the voting process for the South Sudan referendum and helped South Sudanese Australian voters get to polling centres.


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