We have just watched a documentary about the lost boys. The lost boys were a group of young boys were traveling to escape the terrible fate of being murdered by leaving Sudan and fleeing to refugee camps that were in bordering countries. These young boys were anywhere from the ages of 4 to 18 and they marched many miles with basically no food or water to these refugee camps that also had poor living conditions. Many of these so called lost boys did not even make the first journey to the first refugee camp they were headed to. They either died of starvation, dehydration, wild animals, gunfire, or just collapsed from the harshness of the marches.
If the boys were not attacked by the members of the military that were out after them, then they could of been killed by lions, crocodiles, or their bodies just shut down because of the pressures of the march. They marched hundreds of miles to escape from being killed by the military and once they had finally reached the refugee camp in Ethiopia they found that the living conditions at the refugee camp were not much better than the conditions of traveling on the road. There also was a refugee camp in Kenya, but the living conditions were still the same. The lost boys had no shelter at the refugee camps and limited sources of food and water.
The lost boys who were able to survive the march to refugee camps often reverted to getting an education so they could hopefully one day help the other lost boys of Sudan. They even have come to America and are located throughout 38 states, they have come and many are trying to earn their college degrees so they can go back and help the other lost boys who were not as fortunate as they were.
The story of the lost boys is an amazing one and I hope one day more people will know about what has happened in Sudan and that in some way each of these individuals can do something that could possible help this never happen again and to even help other survivors in the refugee camps survive in some way.
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