Lost Boys Of Sudan

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During times of crisis, there are two kinds of people. The ones that refuse to try and surrender, or the ones that do anything to survive. Some will burglarize, others will go primitive and attack, but no matter what troubles are ahead of them, people will always do their best to persevere. The Lost Boys of Sudan are a group of refugee children that abandoned their home country of Sudan to escape from the religious civil war. This war displaced thousands of people, and generated children to walk hundreds of miles to a refugee camp in Kenya. Although many stayed, these children took an enormous risk that would mean safety. They advanced through the blistering heat, without water and hunted for their food, occasionally stealing

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