He saw the majority of his family perish in Sudan’s ongoing civil war and is revered as a leader in the country he left behind. Aleu attended the Children’s Theatre Company production of “The Lost ...

In the late 1980s, Islamic fundamentalists in Sudan waged a war on the country’s separatists, leaving behind ober 20,000 male orphans, otherwise known as "lost boys." For those who survived this ...

War in the South Sudan severed an entire generation of Lost Boys from their birthplace and their families. Biar Atem is one of them. From age 7 to 21 he lived in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya.