Peter nyarol dut autobiography for kids

After surviving a harrowing trek across hundreds of miles of desert, an estimated 11,000 “Lost Boys” found the protection of the U.N.

They crossed the Sudan border into Kenya and were taken to Kakuma refugee camp where they spent the next 9 years waiting for an end to their country’s Civil War.

Lost Boys of Sudan tells an astonishing tale of two young men out of the thousands of young Dinka boys and girls who were orphaned and made refugees by Sudan’s brutal 20-year civil war.

For Peter Nyarol Dut and Santino Majok Chuor, having their villages destroyed and families killed, and being forced to flee into an unforgiving desert, marks the beginning of another incredible journey. Their journey to America is one of good fortune but one also of cultural, spiritual and even physical vertigo.

The distances traveled by the “lost boys” encompass a world of rapid movement and jarring contrasts, and reveal both g