1. KHOT DENG
Growing Up In War

2. Sudan

3. Map of Africa showing how lost boys (Red Army) trekked for many months to and from Ethiopia.

4. This picture was taken in 1987
This picture was taken in This was when the children called “LOST BOYS” fled their homes and villages and trekked for three to six months to the Ethiopian Panyindu refugee camps.

5. On our way to the Ethiopia refugee camps

6. In 1987 the “LOST BOYS” arrived to Ethiopia and were able to settle and set up houses here.

7. Ten-year-old “Garang” wears a smile and a shirt made from material cut from an old UNHCR tent in refugee camp 1994.

8. These children are playing football and the “ball” was made from rags or old pieces of cloth!!

9. The first houses we built after arriving in Panyindu refugee camp in Ethiopia.

10. These kids are trained child soldiers

11. This is a refugee camp in Ethiopia
This is a refugee camp in Ethiopia. The rebel groups were recruiting children to become child soldiers to go and fight in Sudan.

12. As war was intensified in all the corners of Sudan between the Christian South and Arab Muslim regime government, I was still attending my school. I thought that my life was hard and hopeless but in 1991 another civil war broke out in Ethiopia and I was on the run for another three months back to Sudan. In 1992, I went to a displaced camp call Narus in Sudan.

13. On the way to Kenya after our displace camp was attacked by the Muslim Arab from North Sudan.

14. I started to spend my adolescent life in this town in Kenya which became a refugee camp after we were chased from Sudan by an Arab regime government.

15. I manage to complete both primary and high school
I manage to complete both primary and high school. Some of you may think that the school I attended was just a normal primary school and high school with all those beautiful amenities, but to be sincere with you, I had never sat on the desk, chair, bench and even roofed classrooms. I attended my school from primary school to high school under the tree shade using stones and logs as desk and benches for sitting but here I am today do I look like one?

16. Class under the tree in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

17. My house in Kakuma refugee camp 1995-2007

18. During school parade in 1996 in Kakuma refugee camp

19. Our church We still didn’t give up but prayed to God.

20. Lining up to fetch water in Kakuma refugee camp

21. THIS WAS HOW THE FOOD IS DISTRIBUTED TO ALL

22. Picture showing how people lined up in refugee camps to take their food from UN agency distribution center

23. This how food is measured for every refugee and this food equals two kilos of maize (corn), one cup of beans, half litter of cooking oil for sixteen days, that is over two weeks.

24. Children lining up to take their food at the UN distribution center

25. After signing the peace agreement in 2005 between North Sudan and South Sudan, there was peace until South Sudan seceded in 2011 as an independent country.

26. I met with my parents in 2007 after 20 years of total separation
I met with my parents in 2007 after 20 years of total separation. They gave me money to pay my University fees and I graduated on December 15, 2011 with a degree in Sociology

27. Walk in my shoe!!!!