文档介绍:'Lost Boy' Returns to Help South Sudan Village
战争孤儿返乡援助苏丹南部乡村
When he visited his birthplace of Kansuk, the memories came flooding back. His recollections are of civil war and how, as a 5-year-old boy, he and his three brothers were separated from their parents when militiamen ransacked his village.
当他回到他的出生地Kansuk时,记忆便犹如洪水般袭来。他的记忆全是关于内战的,关于在民兵洗劫他们村庄时,一个才5岁的男孩是如何跟他的三个兄弟一起与父母分离的。
Thinking their parents had been killed, the brothers joined thousands of other so-called ‘Lost Boys,’ wandering from village to village, fleeing war and famine.
University of Maine student Aruna Kenyi set up a fresh drinking water program in his native South Sudan village and hopes to follow up with a free school lunch program.
“We ended up in a camp in Uganda. That's where we filled the applications ing to the .," he says. "And in November 2003, we finally were moved to the
.. The first state that we lived in was Virginia, and after that we moved to Maine because we knew some people that we used to live in the camp with that live in Maine so we decided to move here.”
Photo: Aruna Kenyi
Aruna Kenyi took this picture of a teacher with his students in Kansuk, South Sudan, where Kenyi hopes to establish a free lunch program.
But Kenyi never lost the connection he feels to his homeland. In 2005, he learned that his parents had survived the war back home. Earlier this year, he voted in e