Hello, Welcome

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Hello, Welcome!!

• HOPE DRIES THE TEARS ON THE CHEEK OF WOE.
• A saying from Dinka tribe.

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Story of Perseverance

• John Dau, one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan
  who was resettled to Syracuse New York.

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Before the Attack

• Life was excellent
• There was a lot of food
• It was peaceful at home.

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Escape and live in Ethiopia

• Our Village was attacked
• We fled our home to Ethiopia, stay for four
  years.
• Fled Ethiopia back to Sudan, there were 27,000
  people in the camp.

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Escape from Ethiopia to live in Kenya

• Started to learn ABCD and 1,2,3,4, in 1993.
• There was severe shortage of food.

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Coming to America was good news

• In 1998, we heard that we will be going to
  America soon.
• There were processes involved to get us ready to
  come to America, this was in1999.

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Things that were strange to me.

• First time to see snow
• Huge grocery stores with aisles upon aisles.
• Electricity etc

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Cultural conflict and adaptation

• How nice people were for no reason.
• How Nasty some people were for no reason.
• Policemen/women were so helpful

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Founder and former president of Lost Boys of NY

• Formed to encourage entrepreneurial and community
  economic and development.
• To raise self-development initiative with broad
  goal of awareness to Americans about the current
  situation in Sudan.
• To promote cultural heritage of the boys in
  America and to remember their origins.

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Start the process to build Duk Lost Boys Clinic
in Duk County.

• The Clinic will be the hope and security to our
  people.
• To encourage and assist the sick.

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Founder and current president of the
A.C.Sudan Foundation

• To solicit fund to build Duk Lost Boys Clinic in
  Africa.
• To raise money to buy medicine and pay staffs for
  three years.
• To help in education and train nurses and other
  auxiliary workers in Africa

12
Im featured in a movie called God Grew tired of
us.

• The documentary won two top awards, critic and
  audience at Sundance.
• This documentary will be released in the Fall.

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Never, ever quit!

• Last word, if you want to succeed, you must
  persevere. As you know very well that there is
  nothing can be obtained without suffering.