Gabriel Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, Southern Sudanese "Lost Boys" in the U.S., were forced to flee Sudan as children when their villages were attacked in 1987, finding safety for a time in a refugee camp in Ethiopia until needing to flee once more, this time to Kakuma camp in Kenya. Since leaving Sudan, they have scarcely been able to obtain news about their villages or families.
Video: Education and Health Care in South Sudan
Published January 15, 2010
Jen Marlowe, for the Pulitzer Center
As Gabriel Bol says in Rebuilding Hope, "Peace means development, peace means people go to school, peace means when you are sick you get treatment. Health and education go hand in hand, they are not really separate things."
Health care and education were among the two most vital needs in South Sudan, according to almost everyone that we spoke to, from villagers to Southern Sudanese government officials.
But rebuilding health care and education systems after decades of civil war presents one challenge after another.
Project
Materials for teachers and students ahead of filmmaker Jen Marlowe's visit.
A documentary by Chicago students working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Free Spirit Media.
Project
Grantee
Jen Marlowe traveled to Darfur with two colleagues to make the documentary Darfur Diaries: Message from Home. Her second feature length film is the award-winning Rebuilding Hope: Sudan's Lost Boys...
