Essay About Refugees In Sudan

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“I just want peace and to be able to take my family home, so they can have a normal life," Chudier who is from the displacement camp where she's seeking safety. "I spent most of my life as a refugee, I don’t want my children to grow up like I did” (Quick Facts). In South Sudan, 2.1 million people are internally displaced while others are fleeing their homes, escaping or being trapped. America has given support to Sudan since the very beginning of the destruction. America could have made more of an effort for the country as well as refugees even though they gave aid to the country of Sudan. The country of Sudan has not had a piece of quite since the second Sudanese Civil War that started in 1938. It was fought between the northern, Khartoum-based …show more content…

Smoke billowed out from our village and hung over it like a cloud. The roofs of the huts shot up in flames like torches. People scattered to escape the bullets. I watched as the invaders tied the arms and legs of her captives and put long ropes around their necks. They led them from the village on a line blindfolded so they didn’t know the place the were going. “Drowning them in the river,” a person cried. “They didn’t want to waste bullets. (Deng, et. al 108) In order to reach safety, thousands of children fled to homes and started the 1,000 mile journey to Ethiopia. (The Lost Boys of Sudan) Times were never easy as war was an everyday occurrence. Boys who were traveling where given the name “Lost Boys”. They faced four years of hardships and times where they thought they weren’t going to survive. Not all the children made it as some were too malnourished and died as a …show more content…

Programs were offered that teach the boys essentials to living in America. Lessons include the most basic everyday movements such as hygiene, how to operate a gas stove, how to get a job, socialize with the public and things we do impetuous. The Lost Boys were given guidance from people who were invested in their success. Eventually, the boys will be able to live an everyday life working job and being able to pay the government back for their flight to America. When the Lost Boys came over to start their new life, America e gave their best efforts to help them start a new life. (Film

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