The Lost Boys couldn't go home to Sudan and Kenya didn't want them. Then, in the year 2000, the State Department decided they deserved a break and invited them to come live in the United States.

In 1987, civil war drove an estimated 20,000 young boys from their families and villages in southern Sudan.Most just six or seven years old, they fled to Ethiopia to escape death or induction into the ...

Meet the Real-Life 'Lost Boys' of Sudan In 'The Good Lie' "This movie was a unique opportunity to tell our story," says costar and onetime "Lost Boy" Ger Duany. By. Jeff Nelson. Jeff Nelson.

Three of the "lost boys of Sudan" write about their harrowing experiences fleeing Sudan for a new life in the United States in They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky. Accessibility links.

The Duk Lost Boys Clinic — which in three years has treated 28,000 people — wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for John Bul Dau, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan who fled a civil war in their ...

"I am no longer a 'Lost Boy,' " said a jubliant Peter Apai, referring to the thousands of boys who fled Sudan — many on foot — during the country's civil strife that began in the 1980s.

Survival wasn’t enough for the “Lost Boys,” thousands of youths who fled Sudan in the 1980s without their parents and endured a perilous two-month trek to reach refugee camps. At the Kakuma ...

The Lost Boys of Sudan Civil war in Sudan has displaced an estimated 6 million people, including 20,000 boys orphaned and left to find their fate amid a perilous landscape.

POWAY — The Lost Boys of Sudan are men now. A decade or so after arriving as refugees — having survived a harrowing 1,000-mile trek through war-torn Africa on foot — they have found a new ...

BEAVER CREEK Lado Jurkin came of age in the toughest of circumstances: In 1988, when he was just 8, his village in Sudan was attacked by janjaweed militiamen, and he became separated from his parents ...

The Lost Boys couldn't go home to Sudan and Kenya didn't want them. Then, in the year 2000, the State Department decided they deserved a break and invited them to come live in the United States.

"Lost Boys of Sudan" is a potent, engrossing look at several young refugees from Sudan's disastrous, endless civil war who've been relocated to the U.S. Their early experiences here provide a ...